Publications – Group S. Besteiro

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Recent publications

Sanchez SG, Bassot E, Cerutti A, Mai Nguyen H, Aïda A, Blanchard N, Besteiro S (2023) The apicoplast is important for the viability and persistence of Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 120:e2309043120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2309043120

Romano PS, Akematsu T, Besteiro S, Bindschedler A, Carruthers VB, Chahine Z, Coppens I, Descoteaux A, Alberto Duque TL, He CY, Heussler V, Le Roch KG, Li FJ, de Menezes JPB, Menna-Barreto RFS, Mottram JC, Schmuckli-Maurer J, Turk B, Tavares Veras PS, Salassa BN, Vanrell MC (2023) Autophagy in protists and their hosts: When, how and why? Autophagy Rep 2:2149211. doi:10.1080/27694127.2022.2149211

Walczak M, Meister TR, Nguyen HM, Zhu Y, Besteiro S, Yeh E (2023) Structure-Function Relationship for a Divergent Atg8 Protein Required for a Nonautophagic Function in Apicomplexan Parasites. mBio 14:e0364221. doi:10.1128/mbio.03642-21

Renaud EA, Pamukcu S, Cerutti A, Berry L, Lemaire-Vieille C, Yamaryo-Botté Y, Botté CY, Besteiro S (2022) Disrupting the plastidic iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis pathway in Toxoplasma gondii has pleiotropic effects irreversibly impacting parasite viability. J Biol Chem 298:102243. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102243

Sanchez SG, Besteiro S (2021) The pathogenicity and virulence of Toxoplasma gondii. Virulence 12:3095-3114. doi:10.1080/21505594.2021.2012346

Pamukcu S, Cerutti A, Bordat Y, Hem S, Rofidal V, Besteiro S (2021) Differential contribution of two organelles of endosymbiotic origin to iron-sulfur cluster synthesis and overall fitness in Toxoplasma. PLoS Pathog 17:e1010096. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1010096

Hamie M, Tawil N, El Hajj R, Najm R, Moodad S, Hleihel R, Karam M, El Sayyed S, Besteiro S, El-Sabban M, Dubremetz JF, Lebrun M, El Hajj H (2021) P18 (SRS35/TgSAG4) Plays a Role in the Invasion and Virulence of Toxoplasma gondii. Front Immunol 12:643292. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.643292

Sakamoto H, Nakada-Tsukui K, Besteiro S (2021) The Autophagy Machinery in Human-Parasitic Protists; Diverse Functions for Universally Conserved Proteins. Cells 10:1258. doi:10.3390/cells10051258

Smith D, Kannan G, Coppens I, Wang F, Nguyen HM, Cerutti A, Olafsson EB, Rimple PA, Schultz TL, Mercado Soto NM, Di Cristina M, Besteiro S, Carruthers VB (2021) Toxoplasma TgATG9 is critical for autophagy and long-term persistence in tissue cysts. Elife 10:e59384. doi:10.7554/eLife.59384