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List of works by Patrick Forterre

A DNA topoisomerase IB in Thaumarchaeota testifies for the presence of this enzyme in the last common ancestor of Archaea and Eucarya

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Acidianus filamentous virus 1 coat proteins display a helical fold spanning the filamentous archaeal viruses lineage

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An alternative flavin-dependent mechanism for thymidylate synthesis

scientific article (publication date: 5 July 2002)

An archaeal orthologue of the universal protein Kae1 is an iron metalloprotein which exhibits atypical DNA-binding properties and apurinic-endonuclease activity in vitro

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An emerging phylogenetic core of Archaea: phylogenies of transcription and translation machineries converge following addition of new genome sequences

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Archaeal phylogeny based on proteins of the transcription and translation machineries: tackling the Methanopyrus kandleri paradox

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Archaeal virus with exceptional virion architecture and the largest single-stranded DNA genome

scientific article published on July 23, 2012

Are bacteria claustrophobic? The problem of micrometric spatial confinement for the culturing of micro-organisms

Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology.

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

Crystal structure of AFV3-109, a highly conserved protein from crenarchaeal viruses

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Crystal structure of an intact type II DNA topoisomerase: insights into DNA transfer mechanisms

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Defining life: the virus viewpoint

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Dry mass photometry of single bacteria using quantitative wavefront microscopy

scientific article published in 2023

Functional assignment of KEOPS/EKC complex subunits in the biosynthesis of the universal t6A tRNA modification

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Genome analysis and genome-wide proteomics of Thermococcus gammatolerans, the most radioresistant organism known amongst the Archaea

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Genomics and genetics of Sulfolobus islandicus LAL14/1, a model hyperthermophilic archaeon

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Identification of short 'eukaryotic' Okazaki fragments synthesized from a prokaryotic replication origin

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Insights into dynamics of mobile genetic elements in hyperthermophilic environments from five new Thermococcus plasmids

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Life at high temperature observed in vitro upon laser heating of gold nanoparticles

scientific article published in 2022

Microviridae goes temperate: microvirus-related proviruses reside in the genomes of Bacteroidetes

scientific article published in 2011

Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA gyrase possesses two functional GyrA-boxes

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Nanoarchaea: representatives of a novel archaeal phylum or a fast-evolving euryarchaeal lineage related to Thermococcales?

scientific article published on 14 April 2005

Phylogenomics of type II DNA topoisomerases

scientific article (publication date: March 2003)

Structural insights into a new homodimeric self-activated GTPase family

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Structure of the archaeal Kae1/Bud32 fusion protein MJ1130: a model for the eukaryotic EKC/KEOPS subcomplex

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The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), Simple or Complex?

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The Mre11 protein interacts with both Rad50 and the HerA bipolar helicase and is recruited to DNA following gamma irradiation in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

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The common ancestor of archaea and eukarya was not an archaeon

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The reverse gyrase TopR1 is responsible for the homeostatic control of DNA supercoiling in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

The universal tree of life: an update

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

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Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: a hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain

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