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1975 - 1982

1 - FORTERRE P., MILEWSKI E., KOHIYAMA M., ROISIN M.P et KEPES A. Isolement d'une activité ATPasique inhibée par l'acide nalidixique chez Escherichia coli. C. R. Acad. Sci.Paris, 278, 2-7 (1975).

2 -FORTERRE P. and KOHIYAMA M. Evidence for the existence of two steps in DNA replication obtained in toluene treated Escherichia coli. Eur. J. Biochem. 90, 537-546 (1978).

3 -FORTERRE P. Model for the supercoiling reaction catalyzed by DNA gyrase. J. Theor. Biol. 82, 255-269 (1980).

4 -BADET B., HUGUES P., KOHIYAMA M. and FORTERRE P. Inhibition of DNA replication in vitro by pefloflaxin. FEBS Letters, 145, 355-359 (1982).

1984

5 -FORTERRE P., SQUALI F.Z., HUGUES P. and KOHIYAMA M. Studies on the role of dam methylation at the Escherichia coli chromosome replication origin (oriC). Adv. Exptl. Biol. Med. 179, 543-549 (1984).

6 -HUGUES P., SQUALI F.Z., FORTERRE P. and KOHIYAMA M. In vitro replication of a dam methylated and non methylated oriC plasmid. J. Mol. Biol., 175, 155-159 (1984).

7 -BARBEYRON T., KEAN K. and FORTERRE P. DNA adenine methylation of GATC sequences appeared recently in Escherichia coli lineage. J. Bacteriol. 160, 586-590 (1984).

8 - FORTERRE P., ELIE C. and KOHIYAMA M. Aphidicolin inhibits growth and DNA synthesis in halophilic archaebacteria. J. Bacteriol. 159, 800-802 (1984).

9 - MIRAMBEAU G., DUGUET M. and FORTERRE P. ATP dependent DNA topoisomerase from the archaebacteria Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. J. Mol. Biol., 179, 559-563 (1984).

1985

10 - FORTERRE P., MIRAMBEAU G., JAXEL C. NADAL M. and DUGUET M. High positive supercoiling in vitro catalyzed by an ATP and polyethylene glycol-stimulated topoisomerase from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. EMBO J. 4, 2123-2128 (1985).

1986

11 - FORTERRE P., NADAL M., ELIE C., JAXEL C., MIRAMBEAU G. and DUGUET M. Mechanisms of DNA synthesis and topoisomerisation in archaebacteria; reverse gyration in vitro and in vivo. System. Appl. Microbiol. 7, 67-71 (1986).

12 - NADAL M., MIRAMBEAU G., FORTERRE P., REITER W.D. and DUGUET M. Positively supercoiled DNA in a virus-like particle of an archaebacterium. Nature, 321, 256-258 (1986).

1987

13 - SIOUD M., BALDACCI G., FORTERRE P. and DE RECONDO A.M. Antitumoral drugs inhibit the growth of halophilic archaebacteria. Eur. J. Biochem. 169, 231-236 (1987).

14 - SIOUD M., FORTERRE P. and DE RECONDO A.M. Effect of the antitumoral drug VP16 on the 1.7kb plasmid of the archaebacterium Halobacterium GRB. Nucleic Acids Res. 15, 8217-8234 (1987).

1988

15 - SIOUD M., POSSOT O., ELIE C., SIBOLD L. and FORTERRE P. Coumarins and quinolones action in archaebacteria: evidence for the presence of a DNA gyrase-like enzyme. J. Bacteriol. 170, 946-953 (1988).

16 - SIOUD M., BALDACCI G., DE RECONDO A.M. and FORTERRE P. Novobiocin induces positive supercoiling of small plasmids from halophilic archaebacteria. Nucleic acids res. 16, 1379-1392 (1988).

17 - SIOUD M., BALDACCI G., FORTERRE P. and DE RECONDO A.M. Novobiocin induces accumulation of a single strand of plasmid pGRB-1 in the archaebacterium Halobacterium GRB. Nucl. Acids Res. 16: 7833-7842. (1988).

18 - SIOUD M., BALDACCI G., DE RECONDO A.M. and FORTERRE P. Inhibitors of DNA topoisomerase II induce topological changes in an archaebacterial plasmid in vivo. Biochemical Pharmacol. 37, 1879-1880 (1988).

19 - NADAL M., JAXEL C., PORTEMER C., FORTERRE P., MIRAMBEAU G. and DUGUET M. The reverse gyrase of Sulfolobus: Purification to homogeneity and characterization. Biochemistry 27, 9102-9108 (1988).

20 - ELIE C., SALHI S., ROSSIGNOL J.M., FORTERRE P. and DE RECONDO, A.M. DNA polymerase from a thermoacidophilic archaebacterium: evolutionary and technological interest. Biophysica Biochemica Acta, 951, 261-267 (1988).

1989

21 - ELIE C., DE RECONDO A.M. and FORTERRE P. Thermostable DNA polymerase from the archaebacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: Purification, characterization and obtention of polyclonal antibodies. Eur. J. Biochem.178, 619-626 (1989).

22 - SIOUD M., and FORTERRE P. "Ciprofloxacin and etoposide (VP16) produce similar pattern of cleavage in a plasmid of an archaebacterium. Biochemistry, 28:3638-3641 (1989).

23 - SALHI S., ELIE C., FORTERRE P., DE RECONDO A.M. and ROSSIGNOL J.M. The DNA polymerase from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Replication at high temperature of long stretches of single-stranded DNA. J. Mol. Biol., 209: 635-644 (1989).

24 - JAXEL, C, NADAL M., MIRAMBEAU G., FORTERRE P. TAKAHASHI M., and DUGUET M. Reverse gyrase performs unwinding of the double helix and single-strand cleavage in the absence of ATP. EMBO J., 8: 3135-3139. (1989)

25 - FORTERRE P. ELIE C., SIOUD M. and HAMAL A. Studies on DNA polymerases and topoisomerases on archaebacteria. Can. J. Biochem., 35, 228-233 (1989).

1990

26 - Salhi S., Elie C., Jean-Jean O., Meunier-Rotival M., Forterre P., Rossignol J.M. and De Recondo A.M. The DNA polymerase from the archaebacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius : a thermophilic and thermoresistant enzyme which can perform automated polymerase chain reaction. BBRC, 167, 1341-1347 (1990).

27 - Hamal, A., Forterre, P. and Elie C. "Purification and characterization of a DNA polymerase from the archaebacterium Thermoplasma acidophilum. Eur. J. Biochem., 190, 517-52 (1990).

28 - Boutier de la Tout, C., Portemer, C., Nadal, M., Stetter, K., Forterre, P. and Duguet, M
Reverse gyrase, an hallmark of the hyperthermophilic archaebacteria. J. Bacteriol. 172; 6803-6808 (1990).

1991

29 - Boutier de la Tout, C., Portemer, C., HUBER, R.; Forterre, P. and Duguet, M "Reverse gyrase is present in thermophilic eubacteria. J. Bacteriol.173; 3921-3923 (1991).

30 - Labedan B. and Forterre P. The potential of eukaryotic drugs for the isolation of resistance markers in halophilic archaebacteria. Life Sciences, 10 : 17-24 (1991).

1992

31 - FORTERRE, P., CHARBONNIER, F., MARGUET, E. and HENCKES, G. Chromosome structure and DNA topology in extremely thermophilic archaebacteria. Biochem. Soc. Symp. 58, 99-112 (1992).

32 - ERAUSO, G., CHARBONNIER, F., BARBEYRON, T., FORTERRE, P. et D. PRIEUR, D. Preliminary characterization of an ultrathermophilic archaebacterium with a plasmid isolated from North Fiji basinhydrothermal vent. Compte rendu de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, 314, 387-393 (1992).

33 - FORTERRE, P. Neutral terms. Nature, 335, 305 (1992)

34 - FORTERRE, P. The DNA polymerase from the archaebacterium Pyrococcus furiosus do not testify for a specific relationship between archaebacterium and eukaryotes. Nucleic Acids Res., 20, 1811 (1992)

35 - CHARBONNIER, F., ERAUSO, G., BARBEYRON, T., PRIEUR, D. and FORTERRE, P. Evidence that a plasmif from a hyperthermophilic archaebacterium is relaxed at physiological temperatures. J. Bacteriol. 174, 6103-6108 (1992)

1993

36 - FORTERRE, P., BENACHENHOU, N., CONFALONIERI, F., DUGUET, M., ELIE, C., and LABEDAN, B. The nature of the last universal ancestor and the root of the tree of life, still open questions. Biosystem, 28, 15-32 (1993)

37 - BENACHENHOU-LAHFA, N., FORTERRE, P., and LABEDAN, B. Evolution of glutamate dehydrogenase genes: evidence for two paralogous protein families and unusual branching patterns of the archaebacteria in the universal tree of life. J. Mol. Evol., 36, 335-346 (1993).

38 - FORTERRE, P., BENACHENOU-LAFHA, N. and LABEDAN, B. Universal tree of life. Nature, 362, 795 (1993)

39 - CONFALONIERI, F., ELIE, C., NADAL, M., BOUTHIER DE LA TOUR, C., FORTERRE, P. and DUGUET, M. Reverse gyrase : a helicase-like domain and a type I DNA topoisomerase in the same polypeptide. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 90, 4753-4757 (1993).

40 - BOUTHIER DE LA TOUR, C., PORTEMER, C., FORTERRE, P. HUBER, R. and DUGUET, M. ATP-independent DNA topoisomerase from Fervidobacterium islandicum. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1216, 213-220 (1993).

1994

41 - MANKIN, A., DERCHKACHEVA, N.I., LEVIEV, I.G., KAGRAMANOVA, V., FORTERRE, P. and GARRETT, R. Stable maintenance in halobacteria of plasmids harboring rDNA. System. Appl. Microbiol. 16, 672-679 (1994).

42 - FORTERRE, P., BERGERAT, A., GADELLE, D., ELIE, C., LOTTSPEICH, F., CONFALONIERI, F., DUGUET, M., HOLMES, M. and DYALL-SMITH, M. Evolution of DNA topoisomerases and DNA polymerases : A perspective from Archaea. System. Appl. Microbiol. 16, 746-758 (1994).

43 - CHARBONNIER, F. and FORTERRE, P. Comparison of plasmid DNA topology among mesophilic and thermophilic eubacteria and archaebacteria. J. Bacteriol. 176, 1251-1259 (1994).

44 - BENACHENOU-LAFHA, N., LABEDAN, B and FORTERRE, P. Cloning by PCR and sequencing of the gene encoding glutamate dehydrogenase from the archaeon Sulfolobus shibatae : identification of putative amino-acid signatures for extremophilic adaptation. Gene, 140, 17-24 (1994)

45 - MARGUET, E. and FORTERRE, P. DNA stability at temperatures typical for hyperthermophiles
Nucl. Acid Res. 22, 1681-1686 (1994).

46 - MOJICA, F., CHARBONNIER, F., JUEZ, G., RODRIGUEZ-VALERA, F. and FORTERRE, P.
Effect of salt and temperature on plasmid topology in the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii. J. Bacteriol., 16, 4966-4973 (1994)

47 - GADELLE, D. and FORTERRE, P. DNA intercalating drugs inhibit positive supercoiling induced by novobiocin in halophilic archaea. FEMS Microbiol. Letters, 123, 161-166 (1994)

48 - BERGERAT, A., GADELLE, D. and FORTERRE, P. Purification of a DNA topoisomerase II from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus shibatae.J. Biol. Chem., 269, 27663-27669 (1994)

1995

49 - Forterre, P., Confalonieri, F., Charbonnier, F. and Duguet, M. Speculations on the origin of life and thermophily : review of available information on reverse gyrase suggest that hyperthermophilic procaryotes are not so primitive. Origin of life, 25, 235-249 (1995)

50 - FORTERRE, P. Looking for the most "primitive" organism(s) on Earth today : the state of the art.
Planetary and Space Sci. 43, 167-177 (1995).

51 - FORTERRE, P. Thermoreduction, a hypothesis for the origin of procaryotes C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 318, 415-422 (1995)

52 - BOUYOUB, A., BARBIER, G., QUERELLOU, J. and FORTERRE, P. A putative SOS repair gene (dinF-like) in a hyperthermophilic archaeon. Gene, 167, 147-149 (1995)

1996

53 - AAGARD, C., LEVEIEV, I., ARAVALLI, R.N., FORTERRE, P., PRIEUR, D. and GARRETT, R.A. General vectors for archaeal hyperthermophiles: strategies based on a mobile intron and a plasmid.
FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 18, 93-104 (1996)

54 - FORTERRE, P., BERGERAT, A. and LOPEZ-GARCIA, P. The unique DNA topology and DNA topoisomerases of hyperthermophilic archaea. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 18, 237-247 (1996).

55 - ERAUSO, G., MARSIN, S., BENBOUZID-ROLLET, N., BAUCHER, M.F., BARBEYRON, T., ZIVANOVIC, Y., PRIEUR, D. and FORTERRE, P. Sequence of plasmid pGT5 from the archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi: Evidence for rolling-circle replication in a hyperthermophile. J. Bacteriol. 178, 3232-3237 (1996)

60 - FORTERRE, P. A hot topic: the origin of hyperthermophiles. Cell, 85, 789-792 (1996)

61 - BOUYOUB, A., BARBIER, G., FORTERRE, P. and LABEDAN, B. The adenylosuccinate synthetase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus species displays unusual structural features. J. Mol. Biol. 261, 144-154 (1996)

62 - MARGUET, E., ZIVANOVIC, Y. and FORTERRE, P. DNA topological change in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi exposed to low temperature. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 142, 31-36 (1966)

63 - GUIPAUD, O., LABEDAN and FORTERRE, P. A gyrB-like gene from the hyprthermophilic bacterion Thermotoga maritima. Gene, 174, 121-128 (1996)

1997

64 - Borges, K. M.; Bergerat, A.; Allison, A. M.; Bogert, A.; DiRuggiero, J.; Forterre, P. and Robb, F.T. Characterization of the Reverse Gyrase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. J. Bacteriol. 179, 1721-1726 (1997)

65 - KORT, R., LIEBL, W., LABEDAN, B., FORTERRE, P., EIGEN, R.I.L. and DE VOS, W. Glutamate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima: molecular characterization and phylogenetic implications. Extremophiles, 1, 52-60, (1997)

66 - López-García, P and Forterre, P DNA topology in hyperthermophilic archaea: reference states and their variation with growth phase, growth temperature, and temperature stresses. Molecular Microbiol. 23, 1267-1279, (1997)

67 - BERGERAT, A. DE MASSY, B., GADELLE, D., VAROUTAS, P.C., NICOLAS, A. and FORTERRE, P. An atypical type II DNA topoisomerase from Archaea with implication for meiotic recombination. Nature, 386, 414-417 (1997)

68 - ELIE, C., BAUCHER, M.F., FONDRAT, C. and FORTERRE. P. A protein relatede to eucaryal and bacterial DNA-motor proteins in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. J. Mol. EvoL. 45, 107-114 (1997)

69 - GUIPAUD, O., MARGUET, E., NOLL, K., BOUTHIER DE LA TOUR, C. and FORTERRE, P. Both DNA gyrase and reverse gyrase are present in the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 94, 10606-10611 (1997)

70 - BENBOUZID-ROLLET, N., LOPEZ-GARCIA, P., WATRIN, L., ERAUSO, G., PRIEUR, D. and FORTERRE, P. Isolation of new plasmids from hyperthermophilic archaea of the order Thermococcales. Res. Microbiol. 148, 767-777 (1997)

71 - FORTERRE, P. What can we learn from archaeal sequences ? Current Opin. Genet. Dev. 7, 764-770 (1997)

1998

72 - MARSIN, S. and FORTERRE, P. A rolling circle replication initiator protein with a nucleotide-transferase activity encoded by the pasmid pGT5 from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi. Mol. Microbiol, 27, 1183-1192 (1998)

73 - MARGUET, E. and FORTERRE, P. Protection of DNA by salts against thermodegradation at temperatures typical for hyperthermophiles. Extremophiles, 2, 115-122 (1998)

74 - LOPEZ-GARCIA, P., KNAPP, S., LADENSTEIN, R. and FORTERRE, P In vitro DNA binding of the archaeal protein Sso7d induces negative supercoiling at temperature typical for thermophilic growth. Nucl. Acids Res. 26, 2322-2328 (1998)

75 - BRITTON, K.L., STILLMAN, T.J., YIP, K.S.P., FORTERRE, P., ENGEL, P.C. and RICE D.W. Insights into the molecular basis of salt tolerance from the study of glutamate dehydrogenase from Halobacterium salinarium. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 9023-9030 (1998).

76 - BULHER, C., GADELLE, D., FORTERRE, P., WANG, J.C. and BERGERAT, A. Reconstitution of DNA topoisomerase VI of the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus shibatae from subunits separately overexpressed in Escherchichia coli. Nucl. acids Res. 26, 5157-5162 (1998)

77 - GERARD, E., LABEDAN, B. and FORTERRE, P. Isolation of a minD-like gene in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus AL585, and phylogenetic characterization of related proteins in the three domains of life. Gene, 222, 99-106 (1998)

1999

78 - FORTERRE, P., CONFALONIERI, F. and KNAPP, S. Identification of the gene encoding archaeal-specific DNA binding proteins of the Sac10b family. Mol. Microbiol.32, 669-670 (1999)

79 - FORTERRE, P. Did life begin in hot water ? Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 55, 687-690 (1999)

80 - LOPEZ, P., PHILIPPE, H, MYLLYKALLIO, H. and FORTERRE, P. Identification of putative chromosomal origins of replication in archaea. Mol. Microbiol. 32, 883-886 (1999)

81 - FORTERRE, P. Displacement of cellular proteins by functional analogues from plasmids or viruses could explain puzzling phylogenies of many DNA informational proteins. Mol. Microbiol.33, 457-465 (1999)

82 - MARSIN, S. and FORTERRE, P. The active site of the rolling circle replication protein Rep75 is involved in both site-specific nuclease, ligase and nucleotidyl-transferase activities. Mol. Microbiol. 33, 537-545 (1999)