Publications and communications of François Beaufay

Beaufay, F., Amemiya, H. M., Guan, J., Basalla, J., Meinen, B. A., Chen, Z., Mitra, R., Bardwell, J. C. A., Biteen, J. S., Vecchiarelli, A. G., Freddolino, L., & Jakob, U. (24 December 2021). Polyphosphate drives bacterial heterochromatin formation. Science Advances, 7 (52), 0233. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abk0233

Beaufay, F., Coppine, J., & Hallez, R. (April 2021). When the metabolism meets the cell cycle in bacteria. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 60, 104 - 113. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2021.02.006

Beaufay, F., Quarles, E., Franz, A., Katamanin, O., Wholey, W.-Y., & Jakob, U. (28 July 2020). Polyphosphate Functions In Vivo as an Iron Chelator and Fenton Reaction Inhibitor. MBio, 11 (4), 1 - 14. doi:10.1128/mBio.01017-20

Goemans, C. V., Beaufay, F., Arts, I. S., Agrebi, R., Vertommen, D., & Collet, J.-F. (27 November 2018). The Chaperone and Redox Properties of CnoX Chaperedoxins Are Tailored to the Proteostatic Needs of Bacterial Species. MBio, 9 (6), 1 - 14. doi:10.1128/mBio.01541-18

Goemans, C. V., Beaufay, F., Wahni, K., Van Molle, I., Messens, J., & Collet, J.-F. (09 March 2018). An essential thioredoxin is involved in the control of the cell cycle in the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293 (10), 3839 - 3848. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA117.001042

Beaufay, F., & Jakob, U. (2018). CHAPTER 4.1. How Microbes Cope with Oxidative Stress. In Chemical Biology. Royal Society of Chemistry. doi:10.1039/9781788013253-00285

Dahl, J.-U., Gray, M. J., Bazopoulou, D., Beaufay, F., Lempart, J., Koenigsknecht, M. J., Wang, Y., Baker, J. R., Hasler, W. L., Young, V. B., Sun, D., & Jakob, U. (23 January 2017). The anti-inflammatory drug mesalamine targets bacterial polyphosphate accumulation. Nature Microbiology, 2 (4), 16267. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.267

Beaufay, F., De Bolle, X., & Hallez, R. (2016). Metabolic control of cell division in α-proteobacteria by a NAD-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 9 (1), 1125052. doi:10.1080/19420889.2015.1125052

Beaufay, F., Coppine, J., Mayard, A., Laloux, G., De Bolle, X., & Hallez, R. (02 July 2015). A NAD-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase coordinates metabolism with cell division in Caulobacter crescentus. EMBO Journal, 34 (13), 1786 - 1800. doi:10.15252/embj.201490730

Van der Henst, C., Beaufay, F., Mignolet, J., Didembourg, C., Colinet, J., Hallet, B., Letesson, J.-J., & De Bolle, X. (October 2012). The histidine kinase PdhS controls cell cycle progression of the pathogenic alphaproteobacterium Brucella abortus. Journal of Bacteriology, 194 (19), 5305 - 5314. doi:10.1128/JB.00699-12