Publications and communications of Alain Brans

Freuville, L., Gobbi Amorim, F., Vitello, R., Fourmy, R., Violette, A., Liégeois, J.-F., Brans, A., & Quinton, L. (07 September 2023). Towards a high-throughput mass spectrometry methodology to fish peptide toxins from crude venoms by affinity capture on cell membrane receptors [Poster presentation]. 39ème Journées Françaises de Spectrométrie de Masse, Marseille, France.

Anderssen, S., Naômé, A., Jadot, C., Brans, A., Tocquin, P., & Rigali, S. (2022). AURTHO: Autoregulation of transcription factors as facilitator of cis-acting element discovery. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 194847. doi:10.1016/j.bbagrm.2022.194847

Anderssen, S., Naomé, A., Jadot, C., Brans, A., Tocquin, P., & Rigali, S. (2022). AURTHO: autoregulation as facilitator of cis-acting element discovery of orthologous transcription factors. Biorxiv. doi:10.1101/2022.04.06.487287

Sambon, M., Pavlova, O., Alhama-Riba, J., Wins, P., Brans, A., & Bettendorff, L. (2022). Product inhibition of mammalian thiamine pyrophosphokinase is an important mechanism for maintaining thiamine diphosphate homeostasis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, 1866 (3), 130071. doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2021.130071

Kerouaz, B., Jaouadi, B., Brans, A., Saoudi, B., Habbeche, A., Haberra, S., Belghith, H., Gargroui, A., & Ladjama, A. (July 2021). Purification and biochemical characterization of two novel extracellular keratinases with feather-degradation and hide-dehairing potential. Process Biochemistry, 106, 137-148. doi:10.1016/j.procbio.2021.04.009

vettore, N., Moray, J., Brans, A., Herman, R., Charlier, P., kumita, J., Kerff, F., Dobson, C., & Dumoulin, M. (2021). Characterisation of the structural, dynamic and aggregation properties of the W64R amyloidogenic variant of human lysozyme. Biophysical Chemistry. doi:10.1016/j.bpc.2021.106563

Frère, J.-M., Bogaerts, P., Huang, T.-D., Stefanic, P., Moray, J., Bouillenne, F., & Brans, A. (2020). Interactions between Avibactam and Ceftazidime-Hydrolyzing Class D β-Lactamases. Biomolecules, 10 (3). doi:10.3390/biom10030483

De Franco, S., Vandenameele, J., Brans, A., Verlaine, O., Bendak, K., Damblon, C., Matagne, A., Segal, D., Galleni, M., Mackay, J., & Vandevenne, M. (21 February 2019). Exploring the suitability of RanBP2-type Zinc Fingers for RNA-binding protein design. Scientific Reports, 9 (1), 2484. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-38655-y

Yazdani, R., Shams-Bakhsh, M., Hassani-Mehraban, A., Arab, S. S., Thelen, N., Thiry, M., Crommen, J., Fillet, M., Jacobs, N., Brans, A., & Servais, A.-C. (2019). Production and characterization of virus-like particles of grapevine fanleaf virus presenting L2 epitope of human papillomavirus minor capsid protein. BMC Biotechnology, 19 (1), 81. doi:10.1186/s12896-019-0566-y

Vandenameele, J., De Meutter, J., Brans, A., Goormaghtigh, E., & Matagne, A. (14 October 2015). ROBOTEIN A robotic platform dedicated to high-throughput protein production and analysis [Poster presentation]. ELRIGfr conference, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Brans, A., Joris, B., Delmarcelle, M., Marchand, J., Tulkens, P., Hammaecher, C., Goormaghtigh, E., & De Conink, J. (28 August 2014). METHOD FOR MEASURING BETA-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS.

Tavel, L., Jaquillard, L., Karsisiotis, A., Saab, F., Jouvensal, L., Brans, A., Delmas, A., Schoentgen, F., Cadene, M., & Damblon, C. (27 April 2012). Ligand Binding Study of Human PEBP1/RKIP: Interaction with Nucleotides and Raf-1 Peptides Evidenced by NMR and Mass Spectrometry. PLoS ONE, 7(4): e36187. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036187

Van De Voorde, I., Syryn, E., Van den Bussche, C., Delbecke, L., Aerts, G., Verplaetse, A., Vastenavond, C., Brans, A., Delmarcelle, M., & Francois, J.-M. (2010). Optimization of the enzymatic production of the low-calorie bulk sweetener D-tagatose [Paper presentation]. LForCe, Leuven, Belgium.

Arguelles Arias, A., Ongena, M., Halimi, B., Lara, Y., Brans, A., Joris, B., & Fickers, P. (26 November 2009). Bacillus amyloliquefaciens GA1 as a source of potent antibiotics and other secondary metabolites for biocontrol of plant pathogens. Microbial Cell Factories, 8 (1), 63. doi:10.1186/1475-2859-8-63

Devouge, S., Conti, J., Goldsztein, A., Gosselin, E., Brans, A., Voue, M., De Coninck, J., Homble, F., Goormaghtigh, E., & Marchand-Brynaert, J. (2009). Surface functionalization of germanium ATR devices for use in FTIR-biosensors. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 332 (2), 408-415. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2008.12.045

Makarchikov, A. F., Brans, A., & Bettendorff, L. (2007). Thiamine Diphosphate Adenylyl Transferase from E. Coli: Functional Characterization of the Enzyme Synthesizing Adenosine Thiamine Triphosphate. BMC Biochemistry, 8, 17. doi:10.1186/1471-2091-8-17

Brans, A., Filée, P., Chevigné, A., Claessens, A., & Joris, B. (December 2004). New integrative method to generate Bacillus subtilis recombinant strains free of selection markers. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70 (12), 7241-7250. doi:10.1128/AEM.70.12.7241-7250.2004

Douette, P., Navet, R., Bouillenne, F., Brans, A., Sluse-Goffart, C., Matagne, A., & Sluse, F. (May 2004). Secondary-structure characterization by far-UV CD of highly purified uncoupling protein 1 expressed in yeast. Biochemical Journal, 380 (Pt 1), 139-145. doi:10.1042/BJ20031957

Duval, V., Swinnen, M., Lepage, S., Brans, A., Granier, B., Franssen, C., Frère, J.-M., & Joris, B. (June 2003). The kinetic properties of the carboxy terminal domain of the Bacillus licheniformis 749/I BlaR penicillin-receptor shed a new light on the derepression of beta-lactamase synthesis. Molecular Microbiology, 48 (6), 1553-1564. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03520.x

Filée, P., Benlafya, K., Delmarcelle, M., Moutzourelis, G., Frère, J.-M., Brans, A., & Joris, B. (May 2002). The fate of the Blal repressor during the induction of the Bacillus licheniformis BlaP beta-lactamase. Molecular Microbiology, 44 (3), 685-694. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02888.x

Kunst, F., Ogasawara, N., Moszer, I., Albertini, A., Alloni, G., Azevedo, V., Bertero, M., Bessieres, P., Bolotin, A., Borchert, S., Borriss, R., Rapoport, G., Rey, M., Reynolds, S., Rieger, M., Rivolta, C., Rocha, E., Roche, B., Rose, M., ... Purnelle, B. (1997). The Complete Genome Sequence Of The Gram-Positive Bacterium Bacillus Subtilis. Nature, 390 (6657), 249-256. doi:10.1038/36786