2016-2020

89- Regulation of autophagy by DNA quadruplexes

Pauline Lejault, Jose F. Moruno-Manchon, Sree M. Vemu, Pedram Honarpisheh, Liang Zhu, Nayun Kim, Akihiko Urayama, David Monchaud, Louise D. McCullough and Andrey S. Tsvetkov

Autophagy 2020, 16, 2252


88 - Red wine extract inhibits VEGF secretion and its signalling pathway in retinal ARPE-19 cells to potentially disrupt AMD

Clarisse Cornebise, Flavie Courtaut, Marie Taillandier, Josep Valls-Fonayet, Tristan Richard, David Monchaud, Virginie Aires and Dominique Delmas

Molecules 2020, 25, 5564

Invited paper, special issue : Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet–Wine Association, Ed. P. Silva & N. Latruffe.


87 - A Push-Pull Mechanism Helps Design Highly Competent G-Quadruplex-DNA Catalysts

Jielin Chen, Jiawei Wang, Stephanie C. C. van der Lubbe, Mingpan Cheng, Dehui Qiu, David Monchaud, Jean-Louis Mergny, Célia Fonseca Guerra, Huangxian Ju and Jun Zhou

CCS Chem. 2020, 2, 2183


86- Noncovalent dimerization of a G-quadruplex/hemin DNAzyme improves its biocatalytic properties

Yu Cheng, Mingpan Cheng, Jingya Hao, Guoqing Jia, David Monchaud and Can Li

Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 8846


85- Quadruplex detection in human cells

David Monchaud

Annu. Rep. Med. Chem. 2020, 54, 133

Preprint availbale at arXiv:1910.07023 (and/or HAL)

Invited paper, special issue : Quadruplex nucleic acids as targets for medicinal chemistry, Ed. S. Neidle.


84 - Small-molecule G-quadruplex stabilizers reveal a novel pathway of autophagy regulation in neurons

Jose F. Moruno-Manchon, Pauline Lejault, Yaoxuan Wang, Brenna McCauley, Pedram Honarpisheh, Diego A. Morales Scheihing, Shivani Singh, Weiwei Dang, Nayun Kim, Akihiko Urayama, Liang Zhu, David Monchaud, Louise D. McCullough and Andrey S. Tsvetkov

eLife 2020, 9, e52283

Recommended as being of special significance by the CNRS and by Recherche uB

Highlighted by Sciences & Avenir and Pour La Science

Radio broadcast CQFD of the RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse)


83 - An oxidatively damaged G-quadruplex/hemin DNAzyme

Jiawei Wang, Mingpan Cheng, Jielin Chen, Huangxian Ju, David Monchaud, Jean-Louis Mergny and Jun Zhou

Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 1839


82 - DNA junction ligands trigger DNA damage and are synthetic lethal with DNA repair inhibitors in cancer cells

Katerina Duskova, Pauline Lejault, Élie Benchimol, Régis Guillot, Sébastien Britton, Anton Granzhan and David Monchaud

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 424


81 - Improved performances of catalytic G-quadruplexes (G4-DNAzymes) via the chemical modifications of the DNA backbone to provide G-quadruplexes with double 3'-external G-quartets

Antonella Virgilio, Veronica Esposito, Pauline Lejault, David Monchaud and Aldo Galeone

Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2020, 151, 976.


80 - Applications of guanine-quartets in nanotechnology and chemical biology

Loic Stefan and David Monchaud

Nat. Rev. Chem. 2019, 3, 650.

Recommended by Recherche uB


79 - The scope of application of macrocyclic polyamines beyond metal chelation

Pauline Lejault, Katerina Duskova, Claire Bernhard, Ibai E. Valverde, Anthony Romieu and David Monchaud

Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 6146.

Flagged as "Very Important Paper" (VIP) by the editors

Selected for the front cover


78 - Small-molecule affinity capture of DNA/RNA quadruplexes and their identification in vitro and in vivo through the G4RP protocol

Isaline Renard, Michael Grandmougin, Apolline Roux, Sunny Y. Yang, Pauline Lejault, Marc Pirrotta, Judy M. Y. Wong and David Monchaud

Nucleic Acids Res. 2019, 47, 5502.

Selected for the front cover


77 - Identification of three-way DNA junction ligands through screening of chemical libraries and validation by complementary in vitro assays

Katerina Duskova, Jérémy Lamarche, Souheila Amor, Coralie Caron, Nicolas Queyriaux, Marie Gaschard, Marie-José Penouilh, Guillaume de Robillard, Dominique Delmas, Charles H. Devillers, Anton Granzhan, Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou, Murielle Chavarot-Kerlidou, Bruno Therrien, Sébastien Britton and David Monchaud

J. Med. Chem. 2019, 62, 4456.


76 - 2nd PSL Chemical Biology Symposium (2019): At the Crossroads of Chemistry and Biology

Marco Lucchino, Anne Billet, Antoine Versini, Harikrishna Bavireddi, Bhanu‐Das Dasari, Sylvain Debieu, Ludovic Colombeau, Tatiana Cañeque, Alain Wagner, Géraldine Masson, Frédéric Taran, Philippe Karoyan, Muriel Delepierre, Christine Gaillet, Anne Houdusse, Sébastien Britton, Frédéric Schmidt, Jean‐Claude Florent, Philippe Belmont, David Monchaud, Janine Cossy, Christophe Thomas, Arnaud Gautier, Ludger Johannes, Raphaël Rodriguez

ChemBioChem 2019, 20, 968.


75 - Transcriptome-wide identification of transient RNA G-quadruplexes in human cells.

Sunny Y. Yang, Pauline Lejault, Sandy Chevrier, Romain Boidot, A. Gordon Robertson, Judy M. Y. Wong, David Monchaud

Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 4730.

→ Recommended as being of special significance by F1000 Faculty (see: F1000 recommendation).

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74 - How Proximal Nucleobases Regulate the Catalytic Activity of G-quadruplex/Hemin DNAzymes.

Jielin Chen, Yingying Zhang, Mingpan Cheng, Yuehua Gu, Jiri Sponer, David Monchaud, Jean-Louis Mergny, Huangxian Ju, Jun Zhou

ACS Catalysis 2018, 8, 11352.


73 - TWJ-Screen: an isothermal screening assay to assess ligand/DNA junction interactions in vitro.

Ludivine Guyon, Marc Pirrotta, Katerina Duskova, Anton Granzhan, Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou, David Monchaud

Nucleic Acids Res. 2018, 46, e16.


72 - Thermophilic tetramolecular G-quadruplex/hemin DNAzyme.

Huangxian Ju, Yuehua Guo, Jielin Chen, Mingpan Cheng, David Monchaud, Jun Zhou

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 16636


71 - Quadruplexes d'ADN: structures, fonctions & détection.

David Monchaud

Médecine/Science 2017, 33, 1040 (science popularization article)


70 - ADN (acide désoxyribonucléique) ou DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).

Michel Morange, David Monchaud, Michel Duguet

Encyclopædia Universalis 2017 (science popularization article)


69 - The G-quadruplex specific RNA helicase DHX36 regulates p53 pre-mRNA 3'-end processing following UV-induced DNA damage.

Michelle Newman, Rym Sfaxi, Abhijit Saha, David Monchaud, Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou, Stéphan Vagner

J. Mol. Biol 2017, 429, 3121.


68 - Cellular detection of G-quadruplexes by optical imaging methods.

Souheila Amor, Sunny Y. Yang, Judy M. Y. Wong, David Monchaud,

Curr. Protoc. Cell Biol. 2017, 76, 4.33.1.


67 - Real-time and quantitative fluorescent live-cell imaging with quadruplex-specific red-edge probe (G4-REP).

Sunny Y. Yang, Souheila Amor, Aurélien Laguerre, Judy M. Y. Wong, David Monchaud

Biochim. Biophys. Acta 2017, 1861, 1312.

Invited paper, special issue : G-quadruplexes, Eds. D. Montesarchio & C. Giancola.


66 - Selective luminescent labeling of DNA and RNA quadruplexes by π-extended ruthenium light-up probes.

Dounia Saadallah, Mehdi Bellakhal, Souheila Amor, Jean-Francois Lefebvre, Murielle Chavarot-Kerlidou, Isabelle Baussanne, Cécile Moucheron, Martine Demeunynck, David Monchaud

Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 4948.

Selected for the cover

Flagged as "Hot paper" by the editors


65 - Computational understanding and experimental characterization of twice-as-smart quadruplex ligands as chemical sensors of bacterial nucleotide second messengers.

Jie Zhou, Benjamin T. Roembke, Gabor Paragi, Aurélien Laguerre, Herman O. Sintim, Célia Fonseca Guerra, David Monchaud

Sci. Rep. 2016, 6, 33888.


64 - Direct visualization of both DNA and RNA quadruplexes in human cells via an uncommon spectroscopic mechanism.

Aurélien Laguerre, Judy M. Y. Wong, David Monchaud

Sci. Rep. 2016, 6, 32141.

Recommended as being of special significance by the CNRS

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63 - DNA structure-specific sensitization of a metalloporphyrin leads to an efficient in vitro quadruplex detection molecular tool.

Pape Diaba Diabate, Aurélien Laguerre, Marc Pirrotta, Nicolas Desbois, Julien Boudon, Claude P. Gros, David Monchaud

New J. Chem. 2016, 40, 5683.

Themed issue on Nitrogen Ligands, Eds. C. P. Gros & F. Denat

Selected for the cover


62 - Blending quadruplexes and Bordeaux: a Grand Cru!

Liliya Yatsunyk, David Monchaud, Dipankar Sen

Cell Chem. Biol. 2016, 23, 320


61 - Pre-folded synthetic G-quartets display enhanced bioinspired properties.

Theodore Flack, Thibaut Constantin, Sylvain Penasse, Jérôme Dejeu, Béatrice Gennaro, Muriel Jourdan, Aurelien Laguerre, Marc Pirrotta, David Monchaud, Nicolas Spinelli, Eric Defrancq

Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 22, 1760.


60 - Carbon nanotube-protamine hybrid: evaluation of DNA cell penetration.

Cécile Caoduro, Raoudha Kacem, Khaoula Boukari, Fabien Picaud, Claire-Hélène Brachais, David Monchaud, Christophe Borg, Hatem Boulahdour, Tijani Gharbi, Régis Delage-Mouroux, Eric Hervouet, Marc Pudlo

Carbon, 2016, 96, 742.