Grant ANR PRC and PRME
24/07/2023 .Emmanuelle Bille was granted ANR PRME for her project on N. meningitidis and filamentous phage biology. The Neisseria group was also granted ANR PRC in collaboration with Sandrine Bourdoulous. …
Congratulation to Morgane Wuckelt and Elif UYAR
24/07/2023 .Morgane Wuckelt and Elif Uyar have been awarded a PhD Track Grant from BioSPC. We are all very proud and very excited about the science to come. Morgane will …
Engineered human microvasculature to study human infectious diseases
27/03/2023 . Implantation of engineered human microvasculature to study human infectious diseases in mouse models.Sophia Schönherr-Hellec et al iScience 2023 Animal models for studying human pathogens are crucially lacking. We …
Mechanical Activation of the β2-Adrenergic Receptor by Meningococci (Review)
02/05/2022 .Mechanical Activation of the β2-Adrenergic Receptor by Meningococcus: A Historical and Future Perspective Analysis of How a Bacterial Probe Can Reveal Signalling Pathways in Endothelial Cells, and a Unique …
The minor pilin PilV is necessary for meningococcal type IV pilus adhesion
12/11/2021 .The minor pilin PilV provides a conserved adhesion site throughout the antigenically variable meningococcal type IV pilus Jean-Philippe Barnier et al PNAS 2021 Neisseria meningitidis utilizes type IV pili (T4P) …
Congratulation to Audrey LAURENT, Clémence MOUVILLE and Xiali FU
02/08/2021 .Audrey LAURENT and Clémence MOUVILLE have been awarded a PhD Track Grant from BioSPC. Xiali FU has been awarded a PhD Track Grant from China Scholarship Council. We are …
Type IV pilus retraction enables sustained bacteremia
Le 19/02/2021 .Type IV pilus retraction enables sustained bacteremia and plays a key role in the outcome of meningococcal sepsis in a humanized mouse model. Jean-Philippe Barnier et al PLOS …
Type IV Pili recognize a Complex N-glycan
Receptor Recognition by Meningococcal Type IV Pili Relies on a Specific Complex N-glycan. Leguennec et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 117 (5), 2606-2612 2020 Feb 4 News linked to Mathieu …
Sialic Acid Mediates β2AR activation by type IV pili
Sialic Acid Mediated Mechanical Activation of β 2 Adrenergic Receptors by Bacterial Pili. Virion et al, Nat Commun, 10 (1), 4752 2019 Oct 18 News linked to Mathieu Coureuil & Xavier Nassif …