Research articles of the SEPTIMORF consortium are listed below.

Human septins organize as octamer-based filaments and mediate actin-membrane anchoring in cells

Carla Silva Martins, Cyntia Taveneau, Gerard Castro-Linares, Mikhail Baibakov, Nicolas Buzhinsky, Mar Eroles, Violeta Milanović, Shizue Omi, Jean-Denis Pedelacq, Francois Iv, Léa Bouillard, Alex Llewellyn, Maxime Gomes, Mayssa Belhabib, Mira Kuzmić, Pascal Verdier-Pinard, Stacey Lee, Ali Badache, Sanjay Kumar, Cristel Chandre, Sophie Brasselet, Felix Rico, Olivier Rossier, Gijsje H. Koenderink, Jerome Wenger, Stéphanie Cabantous, Manos Mavrakis

Journal of Cell Biology 222 (3), e202203016 (2023)

PMID: 36562751



Bottom-Up In Vitro Methods to Assay the Ultrastructural Organization, Membrane Reshaping, and Curvature Sensitivity Behavior of Septins

Brieuc Chauvin, Koyomi Nakazawa, Alexandre Beber, Aurélie Di Cicco, Bassam Hajj, François Iv, Manos Mavrakis, Gijsje H. Koenderink, João T. Cabral, Michaël Trichet, Stéphanie Mangenot, Aurélie Bertin

Journal of Visualized Experiments 186, e63889 (2022)

PMID: 36063014



Purification and Quality Control of Recombinant Septin Complexes for Cell-Free Reconstitution

Gerard Castro-Linares, Jeffrey den Haan, Francois Iv, Carla Silva Martins, Aurélie Bertin, Manos Mavrakis, Gijsje H. Koenderink

Journal of Visualized Experiments 184, e63871 (2022)

PMID: 35815970



4polar-STORM polarized super-resolution imaging of actin filament organization in cells

Caio Vaz Rimoli, Cesar Augusto Valades Cruz, Valentina Curcio, Manos Mavrakis and Sophie Brasselet

Nature Communications 13, 301 (2022)

PMID: 35027553



Septin-microtubule association requires a MAP-like motif unique to Sept9 isoform 1 embedded into septin octamers

Mira Kuzmić, Gerard Castro Linares, Jindřiška Leischner Fialová, François Iv, Danièle Salaün, Alex Llewellyn, Maxime Gomes, Mayssa Belhabib, Yuxiang Liu, Keisuke Asano, Magda Rodrigues, Daniel Isnardon, Taro Tachibana, Gijsje Koenderink, Ali Badache, Manos Mavrakis, Pascal Verdier-Pinard

Jounal of Cell Science 135(1): jcs.258850 (2022)

PMID: 34854883



Insights into animal septins using recombinant human septin octamers with distinct SEPT9 isoforms

Francois Iv, Carla Silva Martins, Gerard Castro-Linares, Cyntia Taveneau, Pascale Barbier, Pascal Verdier-Pinard, Luc Camoin, Stéphane Audebert, Feng-Ching Tsai, Laurie Ramond, Alex Llewellyn, Mayssa Belhabib, Koyomi Nakazawa, Aurélie Di Cicco, Renaud Vincentelli, Jerome Wenger, Stéphanie Cabantous, Gijsje H. Koenderink, Aurélie Bertin, Manos Mavrakis

Jounal of Cell Science 134 (15): jcs258484 (2021)

PMID: 34350965


Membrane binding controls ordered self-assembly of animal septins

Szuba, A., Bano, F., Iv, F., Mavrakis, M., Richter, R.P., Bertin, A. and Gijsje H. Koenderink

eLife 10:e63349 (2021)

PMID: 33847563

Septin-related research articles from the partners of the consortium prior to the ANR Septimorf are listed below.

High-content tripartite split-GFP cell-based assays to screen for modulators of small GTPase activation.

Koraïchi F, Gence R, Bouchenot C, Grosjean S, Lajoie-Mazenc I, Favre G, Cabantous S.

J Cell Sci. 8;131(1) (2018)

PMID: 29192060


Septin 9_i2 is downregulated in tumors, impairs cancer cell migration and alters subnuclear actin filaments.

Verdier-Pinard, P., Salaun, D., Bouguenina, H., Shimada, S., Pophillat, M., Audebert, S., Agavnian, E., Coslet, S., Charafe-Jauffret, E., Tachibana, T. and A. Badache

Scientific Reports 7, 44976 (2017)

PMID: 28338090


Preparing recombinant yeast septins and their analysis by electron microscopy.

Bertin A, Nogales E.

Methods in Cell Biology, Volume 136, 21-34 (2016)

PMID: 27473901


Visualizing septins in early Drosophila embryos.

Mavrakis, M.

Methods in Cell Biology, Volume 136, 199-220 (2016)

PMID: 27473910

Purification of recombinant human and Drosophila septin hexamers for TIRF assays of actin-septin filament assembly.

Mavrakis, M., Tsai, F.-C., and Koenderink, G.H.

Methods in Cell Biology, Volume 136, 183-198 (2016)

PMID: 27473911


Cytoskeletal crosstalk: when three different personalities team up.

F. Huber, A. Boire, M.P. Lopez, G.H. Koenderink

Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 32: 39-47 (2015)

PMID: 25460780


In vitro reconstitution of dynamic microtubules interacting with actin filament networks.

Preciado López M, Huber F, Grigoriev I, Steinmetz MO, Akhmanova A, Dogterom M, Koenderink GH.

Methods Enzymol. 540:301-20 (2014)

PMID: 24630114


Septins promote F-actin ring formation by cross-linking actin filaments into curved bundles.

Mavrakis, M., Azou-Gros, Y., Tsai, F.-C., Alvarado, J., Bertin, A., Iv, F., Kress, A., Brasselet, S., Koenderink, G.H. and T. Lecuit

Nature Cell Biology 16 (4), 322-334 (2014)

(rated as "exceptional" by F1000Prime; featured in Curr. Biol. (2014) 24(11), R526)

PMID: 24633326


Actin-microtubule coordination at growing microtubule ends.

M. Preciado Lopez, F. Huber, I. Grigoriev, M.O. Steinmetz, A. Akhmanova, G.H. Koenderink, M. Dogterom

Nature Communications 5:4778 (2014)

PMID: 25159196


A new protein-protein interaction sensor based on tripartite split-GFP association.

Cabantous S, Nguyen HB, Pedelacq JD, Koraïchi F, Chaudhary A, Ganguly K, Lockard MA, Favre G, Terwilliger TC, Waldo GS.

Sci Rep. 4;3:2854. (2013)

PMID: 24092409


Three-dimensional ultrastructure of the septin filament network in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Bertin, A., M. McMurray, J. Pierson, L. Thai, E. Zehr, K. McDonald, J. Thorner, E. Nogales

Molecular Biology of the Cell, 23(3), 423-432 (2012)

PMID: 22160597


Septin roles in tumorigenesis.

Connolly, D., Abdesselam, I., Verdier-Pinard, P. and C Montagna

Biol Chem,. 392:725-38 (2011)

PMID: 21740328


Septin 9 isoform expression, localization and epigenetic changes during human and mouse breast cancer progression.

Connolly, D., Yang, Z., Castaldi, M., Simmons, N., Oktay, M.H., Coniglio, S., Fazzari, M.J., Verdier-Pinard, P. and C. Montagna

Breast Cancer Res. 13:R76. (2011)

PMID: 21831286


Phosphatydinositol 4,5 biphosphate promotes budding yeast septin filament assembly and organization.

Bertin, , M. McMurray, L. Thai , G. Garcia, V. Votin, P. Grob, T. Allyn, J. Thorner, E. Nogales

J. Mol. Biol., 404(4), 711-31 (2010)

PMID: 20951708


Saccharomyces Cerevisiae septins: supramolecular organization of heterooligomers and the mechanism of filament assembly.

A.Bertin, P. Grob, M. McMurray, G.Garcia, S. Park, H. Ng, T. Alber, J. Thorner, E. Nogales

Proc.Natl. Acac. Sci USA, 105, 8274-8279 (2008)

PMID: 18550837


Protein tagging and detection with engineered self-assembling fragments of green fluorescent protein.

Cabantous, S., Terwilliger, T.C. & Waldo, G.S.

Nature Biotechnology, 23 (1):102-7 (2005)

PMID: 15580262