2008

Scola B, Desnues C, Pagnier I, Robert C, Barrassi L, Fournous G, Merchat M, Suzan-Monti M, Forterre P, Koonin E, Raoult D (2008). The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus. Nature 455:100-4.

Hecker A, Lopreiato R, Graille M, Collinet B, Forterre P, Libri D, van Tilbeurgh H (2008). Structure of the archaeal Kae1/Bud32 fusion protein MJ1130: a model for the eukaryotic EKC/KEOPS subcomplex. EMBO J. 27, 2340–2351.

Soler N, Marguet E, Verbavatz JM, Forterre P (2008). Virus-like vesicles and extracellular DNA produced by hyperthermophilic archaea of the order Thermococcales. Res. Microbiol. 159:390-9.

Bize A, Peng X, Prokofeva M, Maclellan K, Lucas S, Forterre P, Garrett RA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Prangishvili D (2008). Viruses in acidic geothermal environments of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Res. Microbiol. 159:358-66.

Berthon J, Cortez D, Forterre P (2008). Genomic context analysis in Archaea suggests previously unrecognized links between DNA replication and translation. Genome Biol. 9:R71.

Graille M, Cladière L, Durand D, Lecointe F, Gadelle D, Quevillon-Cheruel S, Vachette P, Forterre P, van Tilbeurgh H (2008). Crystal structure of an intact type II DNA topoisomerase: insights into DNA transfer mechanisms. Structure 16:360-70.

Raoult D, Forterre P (2008). Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 6:315-9.

Quaiser A, Constantinesco F, White MF, Forterre P, Elie C (2008). The Mre11 protein interacts with both Rad50 and the HerA bipolar helicase and is recruited to DNA following gamma irradiation in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. BMC Mol. Biol. 9:25.

Brochier-Armanet C, Boussau B, Gribaldo S, Forterre P (2008). Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 6:245-52.

Forterre P (2008). In a world of microbes, where should microbiology stand? Res. Microbiol. 159:74-80.

Oberto J (2008). BAGET: a web server for the effortless retrieval of prokaryotic gene context and sequence. Bioinformatics 24:424-5.

2007

Soler N, Justome A, Quevillon-Cheruel S, Lorieux F, Le Cam E, Marguet E, Forterre P (2007). The rolling-circle plasmid pTN1 from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus nautilus. Mol. Microbiol. 66:357-70.

Hecker A, Leulliot N, Gadelle D, Graille M, Justome A, Dorlet P, Brochier C, Quevillon-Cheruel S, Le Cam E, van Tilbeurgh H, Forterre P (2007). An archaeal orthologue of the universal protein Kae1 is an iron metalloprotein which exhibits atypical DNA-binding properties and apurinic-endonuclease activity in vitro. Nucleic Acids Res. 35:6042-51.

Gras S, Chaumont V, Fernandez B, Carpentier P, Charrier-Savournin F, Schmitt S, Pineau C, Flament D, Hecker A, Forterre P, Armengaud J, Housset D. (2007). Structural insights into a new homodimeric self-activated GTPase family. EMBO Rep. 8:569-75.

Matsunaga F, Glatigny A, Mucchielli-Giorgi MH, Agier N, Delacroix H, Marisa L, Durosay P, Ishino Y, Aggerbeck L, Forterre P (2007). Genomewide and biochemical analyses of DNA-binding activity of Cdc6/Orc1 and Mcm proteins in Pyrococcus sp. Nucleic Acids Res. 35:3214-22.

Brochier-Armanet C, Forterre P (2007). Widespread distribution of archaeal reverse gyrase in thermophilic bacteria suggests a complex history of vertical inheritance and lateral gene transfers. Archaea 2:83-93.

Forterre P, Gribaldo S, Gadelle D, Serre MC (2007). Origin and evolution of DNA topoisomerases. Biochimie 89:427-46.

Keller J, Leulliot N, Cambillau C, Campanacci V, Porciero S, Prangishvilli D, Forterre P, Cortez D, Quevillon-Cheruel S, van Tilbeurgh H (2007). Crystal structure of AFV3-109, a highly conserved protein from crenarchaeal viruses. Virol. J. 4:12.

2006

Prangishvili D, Forterre P, Garrett RA (2006). Viruses of the Archaea: a unifying view. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 4:837-48.

Gadelle D, Graille M, Forterre P (2006). The HSP90 and DNA topoisomerase VI inhibitor radicicol also inhibits human type II DNA topoisomerase. Biochem. Pharmacol. 72:1207-16.

Forterre P (2006). DNA topoisomerase V: a new fold of mysterious origin. Trends Biotechnol. 24:245-7.

Forterre P (2006). Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: a hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:3669-74.

Forterre P (2006). The origin of viruses and their possible roles in major evolutionary transitions. Virus Res. 117:5-16.

2005

Forterre P, Gribaldo S, Brochier C (2005) Luca: the last universal common ancestor. Med Sci. 21: 860-865

Forterre P (2005) The two ages of the RNAbworld and the transition to the DNA world: a story of viruses ans cells. Biochimie 87: 793-803

Filee J, Forterre P (2005) Viral proteins functioning in organelles: a cryptic origin? Trends Microbiol. 13: 510-3.

Brochier C, Forterre P, Gribaldo S. (2005) An emerging phylogenetic core of Archaea: phylogenies of transcription and translation machineries converge following addition of new genome sequences. BMC Evol Biol. 5: 36.

Brochier C, Gribaldo S, Zivanovic Y, Confalonieri F, Forterre P (2005) Nanoarchaea: representatives of a novel archaeal phylum or a fast-evolving euryarchaeal lineage related to Thermococcales? Genome Biology 6: R42

Gadelle D, Bocs C, Graille M, Forterre P (2005) Inhibition of archaeal growth and DNA topoisomerase VI activities by the Hsp90 inhibitor radicicol. Nucleic Acids Research 33: 2310-17

2004

Jolivet E, Corre E, L'Haridon S, Forterre P, Prieur D (2004) Thermococcus marinus sp. nov. and Thermococcus radiotolerans sp. nov., two hyperthermophilic archaea from deep-sea hydrothermal vents that resist ionizing radiation. Extremophiles  8: 219-27

Forterre P (2004) Strategies of hyperthermophiles in adaptation of nucleic acids at high temperatures in Extremophiles, Gerday C & Glandorff N, In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford UK

Forterre P (2004) Préface de l'ouvrage de Michael Gross " La vie excentrique" 7-14, Editions Belin

Prieur D, Erauso G, Geslin C, Lucas S, Gaillard M, Bidault A, Mattenet A.C, Rouault K, Flament D, Forterre P, Le Romancer M (2004) Genetic elements of Thermococcales. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 32: 184-187

Lepage E, Marguet E, Geslin C, Matte-Tailliez O, Zillig W, Forterre P, Tailliez P (2004) Molecular diversity of new Thermococcales isolates from a single area of hydrothermal deep-sea vents as revealed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting and 16SrRNA gene sequence analysis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 1277-1286

Constantinesco F, Forterre P, Koonin E.V, Aravind L, Elie C (2004) A bipolar DNA helicase gene, herA, clusters with rad50, mre11 and nurA genes in thermophilic archaea. Nucleic Acids Research 32: 1439-1447

Brochier C,  Forterre P, Gribaldo S (2004) Archaeal phylogeny based on proteins of the transcription and translation machineries: tackling the  Methanopyrus kandleri paradox, Genome Biology 5: R17

2003

Armengaud A, Fernandez B, Chaumont V, Rollin-Gentet F, Finet S, Marchetti C, Myllykallio H, Vidaud C, Pellequer JL, Gribaldo S, Forterre P, Gans P. (2003) Identification, purification, and characterization of an eukaryotic-like phosphopantetheine adenyltransferase (coenzyme A biosynthetic pathway) in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi . Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 31078-87

Cohen GN, Barde V, Flament D, Galperin M, Heilig R, Lecompte O, Poch O, Prieur D, Querellou J, Ripp R, Thierry JC, Van Der Oost J, Weissenbach J, Zivanovic Y, Forterre P (2003). An integrated analysis of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi chromosome plasticity and key metabolic features. Mol Microbiol 47:1495-1512

Filee J, Forterre P, Laurent J (2003) The role played by viruses in the evolution of their hosts : a view based on informational protein phylogenies. Research in Microbiology 154:237-43

Forterre P, Filee J, Myllykallio H. (2003) Origin and evolution of DNA and DNA replication machineries. In The Genetic Code and the Origin of the Life,L. Ribas, ed. Landes Bioscience

Forterre P. (2003) The great virus comeback -- from an evolutionary perspective. Research in Microbiology 154:223-25

Gadelle D, Filee J, Bulher C, Forterre P (2003) Phylogenomics of Type II DNA topoisomerases. Bioessays 25:232-42

Jolivet E, Matsunaga F, Ishino Y, Forterre P, Prieur D, Myllykallio H (2003) Physiological responses of the hyperthermophilic Pyrococcus abyssi  to DNA damage caused by ionizing radiation. J Bacteriol 185:3958-61

Jolivet E, L'haridon S, Corre E, Forterre P, Prieur D (2003) Thermococcus gammatolerans sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vent that resists to ionizing radiation. Int J Syst Evol Micr 53:847-51

Matsunaga F, Norais C, Forterre P, Myllykallio H. (2003) Identification of short "eukaryotic" Okazaki fragments synthesized from a prokaryotic replication origin. Embo Rep. 4:154-58