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M Cohn, A Danchin, M Grunberg-Manago
Proton magnetic relaxation studies of manganous complexes of transfer RNA and related compounds
J Mol Biol (1969) 39: 199-217

A Danchin, M Guéron
Proton magnetic relaxation study of the manganese transfer RNA complex
J Chem Phys (1970) 53: 3599-3609

A Danchin, M Guéron
Cooperative binding of manganese (II) to transfer RNA
Eur J Biochem (1970) 16: 532-536

A Danchin, M Grunberg-Manago
Differences in binding of oligo C to charged and uncharged tRNA
FEBS Lett (1970) 9: 327-330

A Danchin
tRNA structure and binding sites for cations
Biopolymers (1972) 11: 1317-1333


JP Changeux, P Courrège, A Danchin
A theory of the epigenesis of neuronal networks by selective stabilisation of synapses
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (1973) 70: 2974-2978

A Danchin
Does formylation of initiator tRNA act as a regulatory signal in E coli ?
FEBS Letters (1973) 34: 327-332

MM Werber, A Oplatka, A Danchin
Affinity labelling of rabbity muscle myosin with a cobalt(III) adenosine triphosphate complex
Biochemistry (1974) 13: 2683-2688



JP Changeux, A Danchin
Selective stabilisation of developing synapses as a mechanism for the specification of neuronal networks
Nature (1973) 264: 705-712

M Uzan, A Danchin
A rapid test for the relA mutation in E coli
Biochem Biophys Res Comm (1976) 69: 751-758

HU Petersen, A Danchin, M Grunberg-Manago
Toward an understanding of the formylation of initiator tRNA methionine in prokaryotic protein synthesis II A two-state model for the 70S ribosome
Biochemistry (1976) 15: 1357-1362

HU Petersen, E Joseph, A Ullmann, A Danchin
Formylation of initiator tRNA methionine in prokaryotic protein synthesis: in vivo polarity in lactose operon expression
J Bacteriol (1978) 135: 453-459

M Uzan, A Danchin
Correlation between the serine sensibility and derepressibility of the ilv genes in Ecoli relA mutants
Molec Gen Genet (1978) 165: 21-30

A Ullmann, E Joseph, A Danchin
Cyclic AMP as a modulator of polarity in polycistronic transcriptional units
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (1979) 76: 3194-3198


C Guidi-Rontani, A Danchin, A Ullmann
Catabolite repression in Escherichia coli mutants lacking cyclic AMP receptor protein
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (1980) 77: 5799-5801

A Roy, A Danchin
Restriction map of the cya region of Escherichia coli K 12 chromosome
Biochimie (1981) 63: 719-722

C Guidi-Rontani, A Danchin, A Ullmann
Isolation and characterization of a mutant affected in the regulation of adenylate cyclase of Escherichia coli
J Bacteriol (1981) 148: 753-761

A Roy, A Danchin
The cya locus of Escherichia coli K 12: organization and gene products
Molec Gen Genet (1982) 188: 465-471

J Daniel, L Dondon, A Danchin
2-ketobutyrate: a putative Escherichia coli K 12 alarmone
Molec Gen Genet (1983) 190: 452-458

A Roy, C Haziza, A Danchin
Regulation of adenylate cyclase synthesis in Escherichia coli: nucleotide sequence of the control region
EMBO J (1983) 2: 791-797

A Roy, A Danchin, E Joseph, A Ullmann
Two functional domains in adenylate cyclase of Escherichia coli
J Mol Biol (1983) 165: 197-202

F Traincard, T Ternynck, A Danchin, S Avrameas
Une technique immunoenzymatique pour la mise en évidence de l'hybridation moléculaire entre acides nucléiques
Ann Immunol (Pasteur) (1983) 134D: 399-405

A Ullmann, A Danchin
Role of cyclic AMP in bacteria
Adv Cyc Nucl Res (1983) 15: 1-53

A Danchin, L Dondon, J Daniel
Metabolic alterations mediated by 2-ketobutyrate in Escherichia coli K 12
Mol Gen Genet (1984) 193: 473-478

H Aiba, K Mori, M Tanaka, T Ooi, A Roy, A Danchin
The complete nucleotide sequence of the adenylate cyclase gene of Escherichia coli
Nucl Acid Res (1984) 12: 9427-9440

C Jacq, [...], A Danchin
Antibodies against a fused "LacZ-yeast mitochondrial intron" gene product allow identification of the mRNA-maturase encoded by the fourth intron of the yeast cob-box gene
EMBO J (1984) 3: 1567-1572

H De Reuse, A Roy, A Danchin
Analysis of the ptsH- ptsI- crr region in Escherichia coli K-12 nucleotide sequence of the ptsH gene
Gene (1985) 35: 199-220

L Hedegaard, A Danchin
The cya gene region of Erwinia chrysanthemi B374: organisation and gene products
Mol Gen Genet (1985) 201: 38-42


O Gascuel, A Danchin
Protein export in prokaryotes and eukaryotes: indications for a difference in the mechanism of exportation
J Mol Evol (1986) 24: 130-141

I St Girons, [...] A Danchin, O Barzu
Structural and catalytic characteristics of E coli adenylate kinase
J Biol Chem (1987) 262: 622-629

P Glaser, [...] A Danchin
The calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase of Bordetella pertussis: cloning and expression in Escherichia
Mol Microbiol (1988) 2: 19-30
The adenylate cyclase toxin of Bordetella pertussis bacteria is stimulated by the human regulatory protein, calmodulin. A general strategy, using the adenylate-cyclase-calmodulin interaction as a tool, allowed cloning and expression of the toxin in Escherichia coli in the absence of any B. pertussis trans-activating factor. The protein is synthesized as a large precursor composed of 1706 amino acids. The calmodulin-stimulated catalytic activity lies in the amino-terminal 450 amino acids of the adenylate cyclase. Expressed in E. coli the toxin is recognized in Western blots by antibodies directed against purified B. pertussis adenylate cyclase, and its activity is inhibited by these antibodies

H De Reuse, A Danchin
The ptsH, ptsI and crr genes of the Escherichia coli PEP dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS): a complex operon with several modes of transcription
J Bacteriol (1988) 170: 3827-3837

M Mock, [...] A Danchin, A Ullmann
Cloning and expression of the calmodulin-sensitive Bacillus anthracis adenylate cyclase in Escherichia coli
Gene (1988) 64: 277-284

S Lévy, A Danchin
Phylogeny of metabolic pathways: O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase A is homologous to tryptophan synthase beta subunit
Mol Microbiol (1988) 2: 777-783

P Glaser, [...] A Danchin
Secretion of cyclolysin, the calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase-haemolysin bifunctional protein of B. pertussis
EMBO J (1988) 7: 3997-4004

V Escuyer, [...] A Danchin, M Mock
Structural homology between virulence associated bacterial adenylate cyclases
Gene (1988) 71: 293-298

P Glaser, [...] A Danchin
Identification of residues essential for catalysis and binding of calmodulin in B. pertussis adenylate cyclase by site-directed mutagenesis
EMBO J (1989) 8: 967-972

P Bertin, [...] A Danchin
Mutations in bglY, the structural gene for the DNA-binding protein H1, affect expression of several Escherichia coli genes
Biochimie (1990) 72:889-891

S Lévy, GQ Zeng, A Danchin
Cyclic AMP synthesis in Escherichia coli strains bearing known deletions in the pts phosphotransferase operon
Gene (1990) 86: 27-33

A Danchin
Homeotopic transformation and the origin of translation
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (1990) 54: 81-86

P Lejeune, A Danchin
Mutations in the bglY gene increase the frequency of spontaneous deletions in E coli K-12
Proc Natl Acad Sci (1990) 87: 360-363

A Beuve, [...] A Danchin, F O'Gara
Rhizobium meliloti adenylate cyclase is related to eukaryotic adenylate and guanylate cyclases
J Bacteriol (1990) 172: 2614-2621

Sarfati, RS, [...] Danchin A, Bârzu O
Binding of 3'-anthraniloyl-2'-deoxy-ATP to calmodulin-activated adenylate-cyclase from Bordetella pertussis and Bacillus anthracis
J Biol Chem (1990) 265: 18902-18906

V De Crécy-Lagard, [...] A Danchin
A Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris protein similar to catabolite activationfactor is involved in the regulation of phytopathogenicity
J Bacteriol (1990) 172: 5877-5883


H de Reuse, A Danchin
Positive regulation of the pts operon of E coli genetic evidence for a signal transduction mechanism
J Bacteriol (1991) 173: 727-733

H Munier, [...] O Barzu
Isolation and characterization of catalytic and calmodulin-binding domains of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase
Eur J Biochem (1991) 196: 469-474

C Médigue, [...] A Danchin
Escherichia coli molecular genetic map (1500 kbp): update II
Mol Microbiol (1991) 5: 2629-2640
The DNA sequence data for Escherichia coli deposited in the EMBL library (release 27), together with miscellaneous data obtained from several laboratories, have been localized on an updated and corrected version of the restriction map of the chromosome generated by Kohara et al. (1987) and modified by others. This second update adds a further 500 kbp, increasing the amount of the E. coli chromosome sequenced to about one third of the total: 1510 kbp of sequenced DNA is included in the present data base. The accuracy of the map is assessed, and allows us to propose a precise genetic map position for every sequenced gene. The location of rare-cutting sites such as AvrII, NotI and SfiI have also been included in the update in order to combine the data obtained from different sources into one single file. The distribution of palindromic sequences (to which most restriction sites belong) has been studied in coding sequences. There appears to be a significant counter-selection against several such sequences in E. coli coding sequences (but not in other organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae), suggesting the existence of constraints on DNA structure in E. coli, indicative of a functional role for horizontal gene transfer, preserving coding sequences, in this type of bacteria

C Médigue, [...] A Danchin
Evidence for horizontal gene transfer in Escherichia coli speciation
J Mol Biol (1991) 222: 851-856
After extracting more than 780 identified Escherichia coli genes from available data libraries, we investigated the codon usage of the corresponding coding sequences and extended the study of gene classes, thus obtained, to the nature and intensity of short nucleotide sequence selection, related to constraints operating at the nucleotide level. Using Correspondence Analysis we found that three classes ought to be included in order to match all data now available. The first two classes, as known, encompass genes expressed either continuously at a high level, or at a low level and/or rarely; the third class consists of genes corresponding to surface elements of the cell, genes coming from mobile elements as well as genes resulting in a high fidelity of DNA replication. This suggests that bacterial strains cultivated in the laboratory have been fixed by specific use of antimutator genes that are horizontally exchanged

M Santana, [...] A Danchin, P Glaser
Molecular cloning, sequencing and physiological characterization of the qox operon from Bacillus subtilis encoding the aa3-600 quinol oxidase
J Biol Chem (1992) 267: 10225-10231

H De Reuse, A Kolb, A Danchin
Positive regulation of the expression of the Escherichia coli pts operon Identification of the regulatory regions
J Mol Biol (1992) 226: 623-635

A Danchin
Phylogeny of adenylyl cyclases
Adv Cyc Nuc Prot Phos Res (1993) 27: 109-162

C Médigue, [...] A Danchin
Colibri: a functional data base for the Escherichia coli genome
Microbiol Rev (1993) 57: 623-654

P Glaser, [...] A Danchin
Bacillus subtilis genome project: cloning and sequencing of the 97 Kb region from 325o to 333o
Mol Microbiol (1993) 10: 371-384

O Barzu, A Danchin
Adenylyl cyclases: a heterogeneous class of ATP-utilizing enzymes
Prog Nucleic Acid Res Mol Biol (1994) 49: 241-283

P Bertin, [...] A Danchin , E Collatz
The H-NS protein is involved in the biogenesis of flagella in Escherichia coli
J Bacteriol (1994) 176: 5537-5540

M Santana, [...] A Danchin, P Glaser
Bacillus subtilis Fo F1 ATPase: DNA sequence of the atp operon and characterization of atp mutants
J Bacteriol (1994) 176: 6802-6811

P Glaser, A Danchin, [...] M Nakano
Identification and isolation of a gene required for nitrate assimilation and anaerobic growth of Bacillus subtilis
J Bacteriol (1995) 177: 1112-1115

I Moszer, P Glaser, A Danchin
SubtiList: a relational database for the Bacillus subtilis genome
Microbiology (1995) 141: 261-268

L Serina, [...] A Danchin, [...] O Barzu
Escherichia coli UMP-kinase, a member of the aspartokinase family, is a hexamer regulated by guanine nucleotides and UTP
Biochemistry (1995) 34: 5066-5074

M Borodovsky, [...] A Danchin
Detection of new genes in the bacterial genome using Markov models for three gene classes
Nucleic Acids Res (1995) 23: 3554-3562

H Cruz-Ramos, [...] A Danchin, P Glaser
Anaerobic transcription activation in Bacillus subtilis: identification of distinct FNR-dependent and independant regulatory mechanisms
EMBO J (1995) 14: 5984-5994


N Bucurenci, [...] A Danchin, O Barzu, AM Gilles
CMP-Kinase from Escherichia coli is structurally related to other nucleoside monophosphate kinases
J Biol Chem (1996) 271: 2856-2862

A Hénaut, [...] A Danchin
Uneven distribution of GATC motifs in the Escherichia coli chromosome, its plasmids and its phages
J Mol Biol (1996) 257: 574-585

MM Nakano, [...] A Danchin, FM Hulett
Two-component regulatory proteins ResD-ResE are required for transcriptional activation of fnr upon oxygen limitation in Bacillus subtilis
J Bacteriol (1996) 178: 3796-3802

C Laurent-Winter, S Ngo, A Danchin, P Bertin
Role of Escherichia coli histone-like nucleoid structuring protein in bacterial metabolism and stress response: identification of targets by two-dimensional electrophoresis
Eur J Biochem (1997) 244: 767-773

F Kunst, N Ogasawara, I Moszer, [...] H Yoshikawa, A Danchin
The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis
Nature (1997) 390: 249-256

O Sismeiro, [...] A Danchin
Aeromonas hydrophila Adenylyl cyclase 2: a new class of adenylyl cyclases with thermophilic properties and sequence similarities to proteins from hyperthermophilic Archaebacteria
J Bacteriol (1998) 180: 3339-3344

E Rocha, A Viari, A Danchin
Oligonucleotide bias in Bacillus subtilis: general trends and taxonomic comparisons
Nucleic Acids Res (1998) 26: 2971-2980

A Sekowska, P Bertin, A Danchin
Characterization of polyamines synthesis pathway in Bacillus subtilis 168
Mol Microbiol (1998) 29: 851-858

F Delbac, [...] A Danchin, C P Vivarès
On proteins of the microsporidian invasive apparatus: complete sequence of a polar tube protein of Encephalitozoon cuniculi
Mol Microbiol (1998) 29: 825-834

P Nitschké, [...] A Danchin
Indigo: a World-Wide-Web review of genomes and gene functions
FEMS Microbiology Reviews (1998) 22: 207-227

EP Rocha, A Danchin , A Viari
Universal replication biases in bacteria
Mol Microbiol (1999) 32: 11-16

E Presecan-Siedel, [...] A Danchin, P Glaser, I Martin-Verstraete
Catabolite regulation of the pta gene as part of carbon flow pathways in Bacillus subtilis
J Bacteriol (1999) 181: 6889-6897

I Moszer, E P Rocha, A Danchin
Codon usage and lateral gene transfer in Bacillus subtilis
Current Opinion in Microbiology (1999) 2: 524-528

NN Baranova, A Danchin, AA Neyfakh
Mta, a global MerR-type regulator of the Bacillus subtilis multidrug-efflux transporters
Molecular Microbiology (1999) 31: 1549-1559

EP Rocha, A Danchin, A Viari
Analysis of long repeats in bacterial genomes reveals alternative evolutionary mechanisms in Bacillus subtilis and other competent prokaryotes
Molecular Biology, Evolution (1999) 16: 1219-1230

EPC Rocha, A Danchin, A Viari
Translation in Bacillus subtilis: roles and trends of initiation and termination, insights from a genome analysis
Nucleic Acids Res (1999) 27: 3567-3576

C Médigue, F Rechenmann, A Danchin, A Viari
Imagene: an integrated computer environment for sequence annotation and analysis
Bioinformatics (1999) 15: 2-15

O Soutourina, [...] A Danchin, P Bertin
Multiple control of flagellum biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: Role of H-NS protein and the cyclic AMP-catabolite activator protein complex in transcription of the flhDC master operon
Journal of Bacteriology (1999) 181: 7500-7508

P Bertin, [...] A Danchin, R Brasseur
The structural and functional organization of H-NS-like proteins is evolutionarily conserved in gram-negative bacteria
Molecular Microbiology (1999) 31: 319-329


(publications in collaboration with the HKU-Pasteur Centre, Hong Kong)

A Sekowska, HF Kung, A Danchin
Sulfur metabolism in Escherichia coli and related bacteria, facts and fiction
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol (2000) 2 : 145-177

A Sekowska, A Danchin, JL Risler
Phylogeny of related functions: the case of polyamine biosynthetic enzymes
Microbiology (2000) 146: 1815-1828



F Hommais, [...] A Danchin, P Bertin
Large-scale monitoring of pleiotropic regulation of gene expression by the prokaryotic nucleoid-associated protein, H-NS
Mol Microbiol (2001) 40: 20-36

P Bertin , [...] A Danchin
H-NS and H-NS-like proteins in Gram-negative bacteria and their multiple role in the regulation of bacterial metabolism
Biochimie (2001) 83: 235-241

*A Sekowska, [...] A Danchin
Extracting biological information from DNA arrays: an unexpected link between arginine and methionine metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
GenomeBiology (2001) 2: 191-1912


*EPC Rocha, A Danchin, A Viari
Evolutionary role of restriction/modification systems as revealed by comparative genome analysis
Genome Research (2001) 10: 946-958

*A Sekowska, [...] A Danchin
MtnK, methylthioribose kinase, is a starvation-induced protein in Bacillus subtilis
BMC Microbiology (2001) 1: 15

MF Hullo, I Moszer, A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
CotA of Bacillus subtilis is a copper-dependent laccase
J Bacteriol (2001) 183: 5426-5430

* EPC Rocha, A Danchin
Ongoing evolution of strand composition in bacterial genomes
Mol Biol Evol (2001) 18: 1789-1799


OA Soutourina, [...] A Danchin, P Bertin
Regulation of bacterial motility in response to low pH in Escherichia coli: the role of H-NS protein
Microbiology (2002) 148: 1543-1551

*S Auger, A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
Global expression profile of Bacillus subtilis grown in the presence of sulfate or methionine
J Bacteriol (2002) 184: 5179-5186

I Guillouard, [...] A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
Identification of Bacillus subtilis CysL, a regulator of the cysJI operon, which encodes sulfite reductase
J Bacteriol (2002) 184: 4681-4689


S Derzelle, [...] A Danchin, P Bertin
Identification, characterization, and regulation of a cluster of genes involved in carbapenem biosynthesis in Photorhabdus luminescens
Appl Environ Microbiol (2002) 68: 3780-3789

*EPC Rocha, A Danchin
Base composition bias might result from competition for metabolic resources
Trends in Genetics (2002) 18: 291-294

*A Sekowska , A Danchin
The methionine salvage pathway in Bacillus subtilis
BMC Microbiol (2002) 2: 8
*S Bocs, A Danchin, C Médigue
Re-annotation of genome microbial CoDing-Sequences: finding new genes and inaccurately annotated genes
BMC Bioinformatics (2002) 3: 5

*S Auger, [...] I Martin-Verstraete
The metIC methionine biosynthesis operon is controlled by transcription antitermination in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology (2002) 148: 507-518

*A Danchin
Not every truth is good. The dangers of publishing knowledge about potential bioweapons
EMBO Rep (2002) 3: 102-104

*S Brunak, A Danchin, M Hattori, H Nakamura, K Shinozaki, T Matise, D Preuss
Nucleotide sequence data policies
Science (2002) 298: 1333

*I Moszer, [...] A Danchin
SubtiList: the reference database for the Bacillus subtilis genome
Nucleic Acids Research (2002) 30: 62-65


*SX Ren, [...], A Danchin, [...] GP Zhao
Unique physiological and pathogenic features of Leptospira interrogans revealed by whole-genome sequencing
Nature (2003) 422: 888-893 Associated to the LeptoList database


*K Kobayashi, [...], A Danchin, [...], H Yoshikawa, U Zuber, N Ogasawara
Essential Bacillus subtilis genes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, (2003) 100: 4678-4683

* EPC Rocha, A Danchin
Essentiality, not expressiveness, drives gene-strand bias in bacteria
Nature Genet (2003) 34: 377-378

C Tendeng, OA Soutourina, A Danchin, PN Bertin
MvaT proteins in Pseudomonas spp.: a novel class of H-NS-like proteins
Microbiology (2003) 149: 3047-3050


*YQ Zhang, [...] A Danchin, YM Wen
Genome-based analysis of virulence genes in a non-biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis strain (ATCC 12228)
Mol Microbiol (2003) 49: 1577-1593 Associated to the SepiList database


E Duchaud, [...], A Danchin, F Kunst
The genome sequence of the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens
Nature Biotechnol (2003) 21: 1307-1313


* TW Ng, G Turinici, A Danchin
A double epidemic model for the SARS propagation
BMC Infectious diseases (2003) 3: 9

* EPC Rocha, A Danchin
Gene essentiality determines chromosome organisation in bacteria
Nucleic Acids Res (2003) 31: 6570-6577


* EPC Rocha, A Danchin
An analysis of determinants of amino-acids substitution rates in bacterial proteins
Mol Biol Evol (2004) 21: 108-116

F Hommais, [...] A Danchin, P Bertin
GadE (YhiE): a novel activator involved in the response to acid environment in Escherichia coli
Microbiology (2004) 150: 61-72

S Derzelle, [...] A Danchin
The PhoP-PhoQ two-component regulatory system of Photorhabdus luminescens is essential for virulence in insects
J Bacteriol (2004) 186: 1270-1279

MF Hullo, [...]A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
The metNPQ operon of Bacillus subtilis encodes an ABC permease transporting methionine sulfoxide, D- and L-methionine
Res Microbiol (2004) 155: 80-86

* A Sekowska, [...] A Danchin
Bacterial variations on the methionine salvage pathway
BMC Microbiol (2004) 4: 9

P Burguière, [...] A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
Three different systems participate in L-cystine uptake in Bacillus subtilis
J Bacteriol (2004) 186: 4875-4884



H Ashida, A Danchin, A Yokota
Was photosynthetic RuBisCO recruited by acquisitive evolution from RuBisCO-like proteins involved in sulfur metabolism?
Res Microbiol (2005) 156: 611-618

HD Song, [...] A Danchin, [...] GP Zhao
Cross-host evolution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in palm civet and human
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2005) 102: 2430-2435

Zhang XW, Yap YL, Danchin A
Testing the hypothesis of a recombinant origin of the SARS-associated coronavirus
Arch Virol (2005) 150:1-20. doi: 10.1007/s00705-004-0413-9

Turlin E, Sismeiro O, Le Caer JP, Labas V, Danchin A, Biville F
3-phenylpropionate catabolism and the Escherichia coli oxidative stress response
.Res Microbiol (2005) 156:312-321. doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2004.10.012

S Auger, MP Gomez, A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
The PatB protein of Bacillus subtilis is a C-S-lyase
Biochimie (2005) 87: 231-238


Zhang, YL Yap, D Wei, F Chen, A Danchin
Molecular diagnosis of human cancer type by gene expression profiles and independent component analysis
Eur J Hum Genet (2005) 13:1303-1311

G Fang, EPC Rocha, A Danchin
How essential are non-essential genes?
Mol Biol Evol (2005) 22: 2147-2156

C Médigue, [...], G von Heijne, A Danchin
Coping with cold: the genome of the versatile marine Antarctica bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125
Genome Res (2005) 15: 1325-1335


M Bailly-Bechet, A Danchin,[...] M Vergassola
Codon usage domains over bacterial chromosomes
PLoS Computational Biology (2006) 2: e37

U Mechold, [...] A Danchin
Oligoribonuclease is a common downstream target of lithium-induced pAp accumulation in Escherichia coli and human cells
Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 34: 2364-2373

C Carapito, [...] A Danchin, [...] MC Lett
Identification of genes and proteins involved in the pleiotropic response to arsenic stress in Caenibacter arsenoxydans, a metalloresistant beta-proteobacterium with an unsequenced genome
Biochimie (2006) 8: 595-606

S Even, [...] A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
Global control of cysteine metabolism by CymR in Bacillus subtilis
J Bacteriol (2006) 188: 2184-2197

Krin E, Chakroun N, Turlin E, Givaudan A, Gaboriau F, Bonne I, Rousselle JC, Frangeul L, Lacroix C, Hullo MF, Marisa L, Danchin A, Derzelle S
Pleiotropic role of quorum-sensing autoinducer 2 in Photorhabdus luminescens
Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 72: 6439-6451

Z Qin, [...] A Danchin, H Jiang, D Qu
Structure-based discovery of inhibitors of the YycG histidine kinase: New chemical leads to combat Staphylococcus epidermidis infections
BMC Microbiology (2006) 6: 96


A Danchin
Archives or palimpsests? Bacterial genomes unveil a scenario for the origin of life
Biological Theory (2007) 2: 52-61


A Danchin, G Fang, S Noria
The extant core bacterial proteome is an archive of the origin of life
Proteomics (2007) 7: 875-889

MF Hullo, [...] A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete
The conversion of methionine to cysteine in Bacillus subtilis and its regulation
J Bacteriol (2007) 189: 187-197

U Mechold, [...] A Danchin
YtqI from Bacillus subtilis has both oligoribonuclease and pAp-phosphatase activity
Nucleic Acids Res (2007) 35: 4552-4561


D Muller, [...] A Danchin, PN Bertin
A tale of two oxidation states: bacterial colonization of arsenic-rich environments
PLoS Genetics (2007) 3: e53


RM Watt, [...] A Danchin, JD Huang
Visualizing the proteome of Escherichia coli: an efficient and versatile method for labeling chromosomal coding DNA sequences (CDSs) with fluorescent protein genes
Nucleic Acids Res (2007) 35: e37

H Ashida, [...] A Danchin, A Yokota
RuBisCO-like proteins as the enolase enzyme in the methionine salvage pathway: functional and evolutionary relationships between RuBisCO-like proteins and photosynthetic RuBisCO
J Exp Bot (2008) 59: 1543-1554.


V de Lorenzo, A Danchin
Synthetic biology: discovering new worlds and new words
EMBO Rep (2008) 9: 822-827

G André, [...] A Danchin, I Martin-Verstraete, O Soutourina
S-box and T-box riboswitches and antisense RNA control a sulfur metabolic operon of Clostridium acetobutylicum
Nucleic Acids Res (2008) 36: 5955-5969

G Fang, EP Rocha, A Danchin
Persistence drives gene clustering in bacterial genomes
BMC Genomics (2008) 9: 4

C Tanous, O Soutourina, B Raynal, MF Hullo, P Mervelet, AM Gilles, P Noirot, A Danchin, P England, I Martin-Verstraete
The CymR regulator in complex with the enzyme CysK controls cysteine metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
J Biol Chem (2008) 283: 35551-35560


M Riley, JT Staley, A Danchin,[...] LS Thompson
Genomics of an extreme psychrophile, Psychromonas ingrahamii
BMC Genomics 9: 210


V Barbe, [...] A Danchin
From a consortium sequence to a unified sequence: The Bacillus subtilis 168 reference genome a decade later
Microbiology (2009) 155: 1758-1775

uk-flagThis article describes the re-sequencing of the Bacillus subtilis genome. It is dedicated to the memory of Frank Kunst, who was instrumental in the whole B. subtilis genome project, victim of an unjust law which forces active scientists to retire, without any consideration for their contribution to creation and diffusion of knowledge.

  fr-flagCet article rapporte le reséquençage du génome de Bacillus subtilis. Il est dédié à la mémoire de Frank Kunst, sans qui le projet n'aurait jamais pu être mené à son terme en 1997. Frank Kunst a été victime d'une loi inique qui force les chercheurs encore actifs à cesser leur activité sans aucune considération de l'apport qu'ils peuvent avoir à la création et la diffusion du savoir.
In memoriam Frank Kunst, let us remember that, when the article reporting the first complete sequencing of the genome appeared in 1997, Chet Raymo, for the Boston Globe wrote (january 5th, 1998):
Beauty bare on the spiral staircase
[…]
« Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare, » wrote the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Here, in this exquisite geometrical molecule [DNA], we look on Beauty bare.
I felt the same response recently when I looked at a schematic map of the complete genome (genetic material) of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis in the journal Nature.
[…]
I was looking at the gene map for Bacillus subtilis in the college library, with the 8-page foldout spread across a table. Several students stopped to look over my shoulder, curious as to what the colorful chart might be.
« This is the blueprint for making a living organism, » I said. I started to provide a more complete explanation, but fell silent. The map spoke for itself. Elegant. Simple. Unfathomably profound.
Beauty bare.
A Danchin
Natural selection and immortality
Biogerontology (2009) 10: 503-516

A Danchin
Bacteria as computers making computers
FEMS Microbiol Rev (2009) 33: 3-26

Jin Y, Watt RM, Danchin A, Huang JD
Small noncoding RNA GcvB is a novel regulator of acid resistance in Escherichia coli.
BMC Genomics (2009) 10:165 doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-165

A Danchin
Cells need safety valves
Bioessays (2009) 31: 769-773

In Escherichia coli, the role of lacA, the third gene of the lactose operon, has remained an enigma. I suggest that its role is the consequence of the need for cells to have safety valves that protect them from the osmotic effect created by their permeases. Safety valves allow them to cope with the buildup of osmotic pressure under accidental transient conditions. Multidrug resistance (MDR) efflux, thus named because of our anthropocentrism, is ubiquitous. Yet, the formation of simple leaks would result in futile influx/efflux cycles. Versatile modification enzymes with low sensitivity solve the problem if the modified metabolite is the one exported by MDR permeases. This may account for the pervasive presence of acetyltransferases, such as LacA, associated to acetyl-metabolite exporters. This scenario of constraints imposed by efficient influx of metabolites provides us with a model that should be followed when constructing synthetic cells

M Fang, [...] A Danchin, U Mechold
Degradation of nanoRNA is performed by multiple redundant RNases in Bacillus subtilis
Nucleic Acids Res (2009) 37: 5114-5125

O Soutourina,[...] A Danchin, T Msadek, I Martin-Verstraete
CymR, the master regulator of cysteine metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus, controls host sulfur source utilization and plays a role in biofilm formation
Mol Microbiol (2009) 73: 194-211


M Touchon, [...], A Danchin, [...], C Médigue, EPC Rocha, E Denamur
Organised genome dynamics in the Escherichia coli species results in highly diverse adaptive paths
PLoS Genetics (2009) 5: e1000344

A Danchin
Motivated research
EMBO Reports (2010) 11: 488


Opening: Three years ago, a senior politician attended his country’s Annual Congress for the Advancement of Science to give the introductory lecture. He asked the attending scientists to make science and research more attractive to young students and the general public, and asked his countrymen to support scientists to address the urgent challenges of global climate change, energy needs and dwindling water resources. It was neither a European nor a US politician, but the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who made this speech about the relationship between research and its practical applications. This is such an important topic that one might think it deserves appropriate attention in Europe, yet we fail to address it properly. Instead, we just discuss how science should serve society or contribute to the ‘knowledge-based economy’, or how ‘basic’ or ‘fundamental’ research is opposed to ‘applied’ or ‘industrial’ research and how funding for ‘big science’ comes at the expense of ‘little academic’ research.

E Krin, A Danchin, O Soutourina
RcsB plays a central role in H-NS-dependent regulation of motility and acid stress resistance in Escherichia coli
Res Microbiol (2010) 161: 363-371

E Krin, A Danchin, O Soutourina
Decrypting the H-NS-dependent regulatory cascade of acid stress resistance in Escherichia coli
BMC Microbiology (2010) 10: 273


F Piette, [...] A Danchin, P Leprince, G Feller
Proteomics of life at low temperatures: trigger factor is the primary chaperone in the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125
Molecular Microbiology (2010) 76: 120-132

M Vayssier-Taussat, D Le Rhun, HK Deng, F Biville, S Cescau, A Danchin, G Marignac, E Lenaour, HJ Boulouis, M Mavris, L Arnaud, H Yang, J Wang, M Quebatte, P Engel, H Saenz, C Dehio
The Trw type IV secretion system of Bartonella mediates host-specific adhesion to erythrocytes
PLoS Pathogens (2010) 6: e1000946


PM Binder, A Danchin
Life's demons: information and order in biology. What subcellular machines gather and process the information necessary to sustain life?
EMBO Reports (2011) 12: 495-499


In his seventeenth-century classic, Novum Organum, Francis Bacon wrote, “we cannot command nature except by obeying her” (Bacon, 2010). Although our knowledge of living systems is much improved since Bacon’s time, we are still far from understanding—or commanding—all the complex mechanisms of life. To take full advantage of living organisms for the benefit of mankind, we will need to understand those mechanisms to the furthest possible extent. To do so will require that the concept of information and the theories of information science take a more-prominent role in the understanding of living systems...

A Danchin, PM Binder, S Noria
Antifragility and tinkering in biology (and in business): Flexibility provides an efficient epigenetic way to manage risk
Genes (2011), 2: 998-1016; doi:10.3390/genes2040998

F Piette, [...] A Danchin, P Leprince, G Feller
Life in the cold: a proteomic study of cold-repressed proteins in the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2011) 77: 3881-3883

M Porcar, A Danchin, [...] A Moya
The ten grand challenges of synthetic life
Systems and Synthetic Biology (2011) 5: 1-9

H Rohde, [...], A Danchin, [...] J Xu, the E. coli O104:H4 Genome Analysis Crowd-sourcing consortium, MJ Pallen, J Wang, M Aepfelbacher, R Yang
Open-source genomics of an isolate from a german family outbreak of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4
New England Journal of Medicine (2011) 365: 718-724

Y Wang, [...] A Danchin, P-Y Qian
Bacterial niche-specific genome expansion Is coupled with highly frequent gene disruptions in deep-sea sediments
PLoS ONE (2011) 6: e29149

Y Wang, [...], A Danchin, PY Qian
Hydrothermally generated aromatic compounds are consumed by bacteria colonizing in Atlantis II Deep of the Red Sea
ISME J (2011) 5: 1652-1659

B Wilmes, [...] A Danchin, [...] M Schweder
Cytoplasmic and periplasmic proteomic signatures of exponentially growing cells of the psychrophilic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2011) 77: 1276-1283   



RM Couture, A Sekowska, G Fang, A Danchin
Linking selenium biogeochemistry to the sulfur-dependent biological detoxification of arsenic
Environ Microbiol (2012) 14: 1612-1623. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02758.x.

A Danchin
Scaling up synthetic biology: Do not forget the chassis
FEBS Letters (2012) 586: 2129-2137

A Danchin
Synthetic biology's flywheel
EMBO Reports (2012) 13: 92

S Engelen, D Vallenet, C Médigue, A Danchin
Distinct co-evolution patterns of genes associated to DNA polymerase III DnaE and PolC
BMC Genomics (2012) 13: 69

Karsch-Mizrachi I, Nakamura Y, Cochrane G
International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration Advisors:
Miyano S, Nakamura H, Sugano S, Danchin A, Savakis B, Weissenbach J, Weng Z, Salzberg S

The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration
Nucleic Acids Research (2012) 40: D33-D37

MF Liu, [...] A Danchin, HJ Boulouis, F Biville
Identification of a new nanoRNase in Bartonella
Microbiology (2012)158: 886-895


G Postic, A Danchin, U Mechold
Characterization of NrnA homologs from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycoplasma pneumoniae
RNA (2012) 18: 155-165

E Toledano, V Ogryzko, A Danchin, D Ladant, U Mechold
3’‐5’phosphoadenosine phosphate is an inhibitor of Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 and a potential mediator of the lithium-dependent inhibition of PARP‐1 in vivo
Biochemical Journal (2012) 443: 485-490


CG Acevedo-Rocha, G Fang, M Schmidt, DW Ussery, A Danchin
From essential to persistent genes: a functional approach to constructing synthetic life
Trends Genet (2013) 29: 273-279

E Belda E, A Sekowska, F Le Fèvre, A Morgat, D Mornico, C Ouzounis, D Vallenet, C Médigue, A Danchin
An updated metabolic view of the Bacillus subtilis 168 genome
Microbiology (2013) 159: 757-770


CM Chan, A Danchin, P Marlière, A Sekowska
Paralogous metabolism: S-alkyl-cysteine degradation in Bacillus subtilis
Environ Microbiol (2014) 16: 101-117

A Danchin, A Sekowska
The logic of metabolism and its fuzzy consequences
Environ Microbiol (2014) 16: 19-28

Kyrpides, [...] Danchin, A, [...] Klenk, H-P
Genomic encyclopedia of bacteria and archaea: sequencing a myriad of type strain
PLoS Biology (2014) 12: e1001920


M Porcar, A Danchin, V de Lorenzo
Confidence, tolerance, and allowance in biological engineering: The nuts and bolts of living things
BioEssays (2015) 37: 95-102
Abstract The emphasis of systems and synthetic biology on quantitative understanding of biological objects and their eventual re-design has raised the question of whether description and construction standards that are commonplace in electric and mechanical engineering are applicable to live systems. The tuning of genetic devices to deliver a given activity is generally context-dependent, thereby undermining the re-usability of parts, and predictability of function, necessary for manufacturing new biological objects. Tolerance (acceptable limits within the unavoidable divergence of a nominal value) and allowance (deviation introduced on purpose for the sake of flexibility and hence modularity, i.e. fitting together with a variety of other components) are key aspects of standardization that need to be brought to biological design. These should endow functional building blocks with a pre-specified level of confidence for bespoke biosystems engineering. However, in the absence of more fundamental knowledge, fine-tuning necessarily relies on evolutionary/combinatorial gravitation toward a fixed objective

V de Lorenzo, A Sekowska, A Danchin,
Chemical reactivity drives spatiotemporal organisation of bacterial metabolism
FEMS Microbiology Reviews (2015) 39: 96-119

Abstract We examine how bacterial metabolism is shaped by chemical constraints acting on the material and dynamic layout of enzymatic networks and beyond. These are moulded not only for optimisation of given metabolic objectives (e.g. synthesis of a particular amino acid or nucleotide) but also for curbing the detrimental reactivity of chemical intermediates. Besides substrate channelling, toxicity is avoided by barriers to free diffusion (i.e. compartments) that separate otherwise incompatible reactions, along with ways for distinguishing damaging vs. harmless molecules. On the other hand, enzymes age and their operating lifetime must be tuned to upstream and downstream reactions. This time dependence of metabolic pathways creates time-linked information, learning and memory. These features suggest that the physical structure of existing biosystems, from operon assemblies to multicellular development may ultimately stem from the need to restrain chemical damage and limit the waste inherent to basic metabolic functions. This provides a new twist of our comprehension of fundamental biological processes in live systems as well as practical take-home lessons for the forward DNA-based engineering of novel biological objects


M Blaxter, A Danchin, B Savakis, K Fukami-Kobayashi, K Kurokawa, S Sugano, RJ Roberts, SL Salzberg, CI Wu
Reminder to deposit DNA sequences
Science (2016) 352: 780

E Belda, RG van Heck, MJ Lopez-Sanchez, S Cruveiller, V Barbe, C Fraser, HP Klenk, J Petersen, A Morgat, PI Nikel, D Vallenet, Z Rouy, A Sekowska, VA Martins Dos Santos, V de Lorenzo, A Danchin, C Médigue
The revisited genome of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 enlightens its value as a robust metabolic chassis
Environ Microbiol (2016) doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13230

A Danchin
From function to structure take the archaeal TRAM
Environ Microbiol (2016) 18: 2776-2778

A Danchin
Nature or manufacture: What should we fear most?
C R Biol (2016) doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2016.05.001

A Danchin, G Fang
Unknown unknowns: essential genes in quest for function
Microb Biotechnol. (2016) doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12384

PI Nikel, M Chavarría, A Danchin, V de Lorenzo
From dirt to industrial applications: Pseudomonas putida as a Synthetic Biology chassis for hosting harsh biochemical reactions
Curr Opin Chem Biol (2016) 34: 20-29

Y Wang, JM Huang, SL Wang, ZM Gao, AQ Zhang, A Danchin, LS He
Genomic characterization of symbiotic mycoplasmas from the stomach of deep-sea isopod Bathynomus sp.
Environ Microbiol (2016) doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13411


A Danchin
Coping with inevitable accidents of metabolism
Microb Biotechnol. (2017) 10: 57-72 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12461

K Bastard, [...], A Danchin, [...], V de Berardinis
Parallel evolution of non-homologous isofunctional enzymes in methionine biosynthesis
Nat Chem Biol. (2017)13: 858-866 doi:10.1038/nchembio.2397

A Danchin
From chemical metabolism to life: the origin of the genetic coding process
Beilstein J Org Chem. (2017) 13: 1119-1135 doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.111

A Danchin, S Braham
Coenzyme B12 synthesis as a baseline to study metabolite contribution of animal microbiota
Microb Biotechnol. (2017) 10: 688-701 doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12722

Timmis K, [...], Danchin A, [...], Singh BK
The contribution of microbial biotechnology to sustainable development goals
Microb Biotechnol. (2017) 10: 984-987 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12818

Timmis K, de Lorenzo V, Verstraete W, Ramos JL, Danchin A, Brüssow H, Singh BK, Timmis JK
The contribution of microbial biotechnology to economic growth and employment creation
Microb Biotechnol. (2017) 10: 1137-1144 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12845

He LS, Zhang PW, Huang JM, Zhu FC, Danchin A, Wang Y
The enigmatic genome of an obligate ancient Spiroplasma symbiont in a hadal holothurian.
Appl Environ Microbiol. (2017) 84: e01965-17 doi: 10.1128/AEM.01965-17


R Borriss, A Danchin, CR Harwood, C Médigue, EPC Rocha, A Sekowska, D Vallenet
Bacillus subtilis, the model Gram-positive bacterium: 20 years of annotation refinement
Microb Biotechnol. (2018) 11: 3-17 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12461

Y Wang, FC Zhu, LS He, A Danchin
Unique tRNA gene profile suggests paucity of nucleotide modifications in anticodons of a deep-sea symbiotic Spiroplasma
Nucleic Acids Res. (2018) 46: 2197-2203 doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12461

A Danchin
Bacteria in the ageing gut: Did the taming of fire promote a long human lifespan?
Environ Microbiol. (2018) 20: 1066-1087 doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14255

A Danchin, C Ouzounis, T Tokuyasu, JD Zucker
No wisdom in the crowd: genome annotation in the era of big data - current status and future prospects
Microb Biotechnol. (2018) 11: 588-605 doi:10.1111/1751-7915.13284

A Danchin
Retour sur les origines de la vie: De l'atome aux molécules, reproduction, réplication
Med Sci (Paris) (2018) 34: 857-864 doi:10.1051/medsci/2018212

A Danchin
Retour sur les origines de la vie: Des métabolites aux cellules
Med Sci (Paris) (2018) 34: 984-899 doi:10.1051/medsci/2018234

A Danchin, A Sekowska, S Noria

Chapter 5. Functional requirements in the program and the cell chassis for next-generation synthetic biology pp. 81-108
In: Synthetic Biology: Parts, Devices and Applications (2018) Christina Smolke (Editor)
Sang Yup Lee (Series Editor), Jens Nielsen (Series Editor), Gregory Stephanopoulos (Series Editor), Wiley
doi:10.1002/9783527688104.ch5

ISBN: 978-3-527-68808-1



A Danchin
Multiple clocks in the evolution of living organisms pp. 101-118
In: Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Evolution (2018)
edited by Pabulo H. Rampelotto, Springer
ISBN: 978-3-319-69078-0


Amann RI, [...], Xenarios I
Consent insufficient for data release—Response.
Science (2019) 364: 446 doi: 10.1126/science.aax7509

Iliopoulos I, Ananiadou S, Danchin A, Ioannidis JP, Katsikis PD, Ouzounis CA, Promponas VJ
Hypothesis, analysis and synthesis, it's all Greek to me
eLife (2019) 8: e43514 doi: 10.7554/eLife.43514 10.1111/1751-7915.13324

Iliopoulos I, Ananiadou S, Danchin A, Ioannidis JP, Katsikis PD, Ouzounis CA, Promponas VJ
Preprint with more details
Hypothesis, analysis and synthesis, it's all Greek to me
BioRxiv 561175 doi: 10.1101/561175.

A Sekowska, H Ashida, A Danchin
Revisiting the methionine salvage pathway and its paralogues
Microb Biotechnol. (2019) 12: 77-97 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13324

A Danchin
Conceptual sequel to biological expeditions at the time of global changes
Environ Microbiol Rep. (2019) 11: 38-40 doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12722

Frendorf PO, Lauritsen I, Sekowska A, Danchin A, Nørholm MHH
Mutations in the global transcription factor CRP/CAP: insights from experimental evolution and deep sequencing.
Comput Struct Biotechnol J. (2019) 17: 730-736 doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2019.05.009.

Amann RI, [...] Danchin A, de Lorenzo V, [...], Xenarios I
Toward unrestricted use of public genomic data.
Science (2019) 363: 350-352 doi: 10.1126/science.aaw1280

G Boël, O Danot, V de Lorenzo, A Danchin
Omnipresent Maxwell’s demons orchestrate information management in living cells
Microb Biotechnol. (2019) 12: 210-242 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13378

Z Li, Q Pan, Y Xiao, X Fang X, R Shi, C Fu, A Danchin, C You
Deciphering global gene expression and regulation strategy in Escherichia coli during carbon limitation
Microb Biotechnol. (2019) 12: 360-376 doi:10.1111/1751-7915.13343

Timmis K, [...], Danchin A, [...], Harper L
The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society
Environ Microbiol. (2019) 21: 1513-1528 doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14611

Danchin A, Nikel PI
Why nature chose potassium
J Mol Evol. (2019) 87: 271-288 doi: 10.1007/s00239-019-09915-2

A Danchin
Origin of the first cells: the engineer’s point of view
Encyclopédie de l'environnement. UGA Éditions, Grenoble



Lian CA, Yan GY, Huang JM, Danchin A, Wang Y and LS He
Genomic characterization of a novel gut symbiont from the hadal snailfish
Front Microbiol (2020) 10: 2978 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02978

Danchin A, Ng TWP, Turinici, G
A new transmission route for the propagation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
medRxiv (2020) doi: 10.1101/2020.02.14.20022939

Danchin A, Sekowska A, You CY
One-carbon metabolism, folate, zinc and translation
Microbial Biotechnology (2020) 13: 899-925 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13550

Danchin A
Zinc, an unexpected integrator of metabolism?
Microbial Biotechnology (2020) 13: 895-898 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13549

Prifti E, Chevaleyre Y, Hanczar B, Belda E, Danchin A, Clément K, Zucker JD
Interpretable and accurate prediction models for metagenomics data
Gigascience (2020) 9: pii: giaa010  doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa010

Danchin A
Isobiology: A variational principle for exploring synthetic life
Chembiochem (2020) 21: 1781-1792  doi: 10.1002/cbic.202000060

Danchin A, Marlière P
Cytosine drives evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Environ Microbiol (2020) 22: 1977-1985 doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15025

Armengaud J, Delaunay-Moisan A, Thuret JY, van Anken E, Acosta-Alvear D, Aragón T, Arias C, Blondel M, Braakman I, Collet JF, Courcol R, Danchin A, Deleuze JF, Lavigne JP, Lucas S, Michiels T, Moore ERB, Nixon-Abell J, Rossello-Mora R, Shi Z, Siccardi AG, Sitia R, Tillett D, Timmis KN, Toledano MB, van der Sluijs P, Vicenzi E
The importance of naturally attenuated SARS-CoV-2 in the fight against Covid-19.
Environ Microbiol (2020) 22:  1997-2000 doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15039

Danchin A, Timmis K
SARS-CoV-2 variants: relevance for symptom granularity, epidemiology, immunity (herd, vaccines), virus origin and containment?
Environ Microbiol (2020) 22: 2001-2006 doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15053

McGenity TJ, Gessesse A, Hallsworth JE, Garcia Cela E, Verheecke-Vaessen C, Wang F, Chavarría M, Haggblom MM, Molin S, Danchin A, Smid EJ, Lood C, Cockell CS, Whitby C, Liu SJ, Keller NP, Stein LY, Bordenstein SR, Lal R, Nunes OC, Gram L, Singh BK, Webster NS, Morris C, Sivinski S, Bindschedler S, Junier P, Antunes A, Baxter BK, Scavone P, Timmis K
Visualizing the invisible: class excursions to ignite children's enthusiasm for microbes
Microbial Biotechnology (2020) 13: 844-887 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13576

Wang Y, Huang JM, Zhou YL, Almeida A, Finn RD, Danchin A, He LS
Phylogenomics of expanding uncultured environmental Tenericutes provides insights into their pathogenicity and evolutionary relationship with Bacilli
BMC Genomics (2020) 21: 408 doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-06807-4

Courtier-Orgogozo V, Danchin A, Gouyon PH, Boëte C
Evaluating the probability of CRISPR-based gene drive contaminating another species
Evol Appl (2020) 13: 1888-1905 doi: 10.1111/eva.12939

Cluzel N, Lambert A, Maday Y, Turinici G, Danchin A
Biochemical and statistical lessons from the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: paths for novel antiviral warfare
CR Biol (2020) 343: 177-209 doi: 10.5802/crbiol.16

Danchin A
Le feu sacré de la vie
Pour la Science (2020) 109: 58-63

Ou Z, Ouzounis C, Wang D, Sun W, Li J, Chen W, Marlière P, Danchin A
A path toward SARS-CoV-2 attenuation: Metabolic pressure on CTP synthesis rules the virus evolution
Genome Biol Evol (2020) 12: 2467-2485 doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa229


Luo R, Delaunay-Moisan A, Timmis K, Danchin A
SARS-CoV-2 biology and variants: anticipation of viral evolution and what needs to be done
Environ Microbiol (2021) 23: 2339-2363 doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15487

Pan Q, Li Z, Ju X, Hou C, Xiao Y, Shi R, Fu C, Danchin A, You C
Escherichia coli segments its controls on carbon-dependent gene expression into global and specific regulations
Microb Biotechnol (2021) 14: 1084-1106 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13776

Danchin A, Turinici G
Immunity after COVID-19: Protection or sensitization?
Math Biosci (2021) 331: 108499 doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108499

Richard P, Kozlowski L, Guillorit H, Garnier P, McKnight NC, Danchin A, Manière X
Queuine, a bacterial-derived hypermodified nucleobase, shows protection in in vitro models of neurodegeneration
PLoS ONE (2021) 16: e0253216 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253216

Danchin A
Biological innovation in the functional landscape of a model regulator, or the lactose operon repressor
CR Biol (2021) 344: 111-126 doi: 10.5802/crbiol.52

Lauritsen I, Frendorf PO, Capucci S, Heyde SAH, Blomquist SD, Wendel S, Fischer EC, Sekowska A, Danchin A, Nørholm MHH
Temporal evolution of master regulator Crp identifies pyrimidines as catabolite modulator factors
Nature Communications (2021) 12: 5880 doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26098-x

Karapiperis C, Kouklis P, Papastratos S, Chasapi A, Danchin A, Angelis L, Ouzounis CA
A strong seasonality pattern for Covid-19 incidence rates modulated by UV radiation levels
Viruses (2021) 13: 574 doi: 10.3390/v13040574


Danchin A
In vivo, in vitro and in silico: an open space for the development of microbe-based applications of synthetic biology
Microb Biotechnol (2022) 15: 42-64 doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13937

Wang Y, Li WL, Baker BJ, Zhou YL, He LS, Danchin A, Li QM, Gao ZM
Carbon metabolism and adaptation of hyperalkaliphilic microbes in serpentinizing spring of Manleluag, the Philippines
Environ Microbiol Rep (2022) 14: 308-319 doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.13052

Hu YF, Hu JC, Gong HR, Danchin A, Sun R, Chu H, Hung IF, Yuen KY, To KK, Zhang BZ, Yau T, Huang JD
Computation of antigenicity predicts SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough variants
Front Immunol (2022) 13: 861050 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.861050

Hazra S, Bhandari DM, Krishnamoorthy K, Sekowska A, Danchin A, Begley TP
Cysteine dealkylation in Bacillus subtilis by a novel flavin-dependent monooxygenase
Biochemistry (2022) 61: 952-955 doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00020

Danchin A, Pagani-Azizi O, Turinici G, Yahiaoui G
COVID-19 Adaptive Humoral Immunity Models: Weakly Neutralizing Versus Antibody-Disease Enhancement Scenarios
Acta Biotheoretica (2022) 70: 23 doi: 10.1007/s10441-022-09447-1

de Crécy-Lagard V, Amorin de Hegedus R, Arighi C, Babor J, Bateman A, Blaby I, Blaby-Haas C, Bridge AJ, Burley SK, Cleveland S, Colwell LJ, Conesa A, Dallago C, Danchin A, de Waard A, Deutschbauer A, Dias R, Ding Y, Fang G, Friedberg I, Gerlt J, Goldford J, Gorelik M, Gyori BM, Henry C, Hutinet G, Jaroch M, Karp PD, Kondratova L, Lu Z, Marchler-Bauer A, Martin MJ, McWhite C, Moghe GD, Monaghan P, Morgat A, Mungall CJ, Natale DA, Nelson WC, O'Donoghue S, Orengo C, O'Toole KH, Radivojac P, Reed C, Roberts RJ, Rodionov D, Rodionova IA, Rudolf JD, Saleh L, Sheynkman G, Thibaud-Nissen F, Thomas PD, Uetz P, Vallenet D, Carter EW, Weigele PR, Wood V, Wood-Charlson EM, Xu J
A roadmap for the functional annotation of protein families: a community perspective
Database (2022) 2022: baac062 doi: 10.1093/database/baac062

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The absence of the queuosine tRNA modification leads to pleiotropic phenotypes revealing perturbations of metal and oxidative stress homeostasis in Escherichia coli K12
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Danchin A
Pasteur and "motivated" research
C R Biol (2022) 345: 109-119 doi: 10.5802/crbiol.89


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SynBio 2.0, a new era for synthetic life: Neglected essential functions for resilience
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Timmis K, Berry D, Bonfante P, Coleman M, Cunliffe M, Danchin A, Galperin M, Huang W, Lopez P, Stewart F, Wood T
Juan Luis Ramos: an exceptional editor of Environmental Microbiology
Environ Microbiol (2023) 25: 595-596 doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16315

Bremer E, Calteau A, Danchin A, Harwood C, Helmann JD, Médigue C, Palsson BO, Sekowska A, Vallenet D, Zuniga A, Zuniga C
A model industrial workhorse: Bacillus subtilis strain 168 and its genome after a quarter of a century
Microb biotechnol (2023) : doi: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfac065

Danchin A
La guerre biologique au temps de la biologie synthétique
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