Publications

Dorrazehi, G. M., Winkle, M., Desmet, M., Stroobant, V., Tanriver, G., Degand, H., Evrard, D., Desguin, B., Morsomme, P., Biboy, J., Gray, J., Mitusińska, K., Góra, A., Vollmer, W., & Soumillion, P. (2024). PBP-A, a cyanobacterial DD-peptidase with high specificity for amidated muropeptides, exhibits pH-dependent promiscuous activity harmful to Escherichia coli. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 13999. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64806-x (Original work published 2024)

Vucko, T., Strilets, D., Soumillion, P., Desguin, B., & Vincent, S. P. (2024). Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of NPN cofactor taking advantage of ADP-ribosyl cyclase and LarC cyclometallase promiscuous activities. Bioorganic Chemistry, 153, 107879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2024.107879 (Original work published 2024)

Meersseman Arango, H., van den Biggelaar, L., Soumillion, P., Luis Alconero, P., Leyssens, T., Paradisi, F., & Debecker, D. (2023). Continuous flow-mode synthesis of (chiral) amines with transaminase: a strategic biocatalytic approach to essential building blocks. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 8, 1505-1544. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3re00210a (Original work published 2023)

Knoops, A., Ledesma-García, L., Waegemans, A., Lamontagne, M., Decat, B., Degand, H., Morsomme, P., Soumillion, P., Delvigne, F., & Hols, P. (2022). Competence shut-off by intracellular pheromone degradation in salivarius streptococci. PLOS Genetics, 18(5), e1010198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010198 (Original work published 2022)

Godessart, P., Lannoy, A., Dieu, M., Van der Verren, S. E., Soumillion, P., Collet, J.-F., Remaut, H., Renard, P., & De Bolle, X. (2021). β-Barrels covalently link peptidoglycan and the outer membrane in the α-proteobacterium Brucella abortus. Nature microbiology, 6(1), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-00799-3 (Original work published 2021)

Ledesma-García, L., Ensinck, I., Dereinne, D., Viela Bovio, F., Mignolet, J., Dufrêne, Y., Soumillion, P., Nessler, S., & Hols, P. (2021). Co-evolution of the bacterial pheromone ComS and sensor ComR fine-tunes natural transformation in streptococci. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 101346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101346 (Original work published 2021)

Yang, J., Petitjean, S., Koehler, M., Zhang, Q., Dumitru, A.-C., Chen, W., Derclaye, S., Vincent, S. P., Soumillion, P., & Alsteens, D. (2021). Author Correction: Molecular interaction and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 binding to the ACE2 receptor. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2996. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23498-x (Original work published 2021)

Gargiulo, S., & Soumillion, P. (2021). Directed evolution for enzyme development in biocatalysis. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 61, 107-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.11.006 (Original work published 2021)

Yang, D., Vandenbussche, G., Vertommen, D., Evrard, D., Abskharon, R., Cavalier, J.-F., Berger, G., Canaan, S., Khan, M. S., Zeng, S., Wohlkönig, A., Prévost, M., Soumillion, P., & Fontaine, V. (2020). Methyl arachidonyl fluorophosphonate inhibits Mycobacterium tuberculosis thioesterase TesA and globally affects vancomycin susceptibility. FEBS Letters, 594(1), 79-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13555 (Original work published 2020)

Yang, D., Klebl, D. P., Zeng, S., Sobott, F., Prévost, M., Soumillion, P., Vandenbussche, G., & Fontaine, V. (2020). Interplays between copper and Mycobacterium tuberculosis GroEL1. Metallomics : integrated biometal science. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0mt00101e (Original work published 2020)

Desguin, B., Urdiain-Arraiza, J., Da Costa, M., Fellner, M., Hu, J., Hausinger, R. P., Desmet, T., Hols, P., & Soumillion, P. (2020). Uncovering a superfamily of nickel-dependent hydroxyacid racemases and epimerases. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 18123. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74802-6 (Original work published 2020)

Art, J.-F., Soumillion, P., & Dupont, C. (2020). Use of a quartz crystal microbalance platform to study protein adsorption on aluminum hydroxide vaccine adjuvants: Focus on phosphate-hydroxide ligand exchanges. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 573, 118834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.118834 (Original work published 2020)

Yang, J., Petitjean, S., Koehler, M., Zhang, Q., Dumitru, A.-C., Chen, W., Derclaye, S., Vincent, S. P., Soumillion, P., & Alsteens, D. (2020). Molecular interaction and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 binding to the ACE2 receptor. Nature Communications, 11(1), 4541. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18319-6 (Original work published 2020)

Ledesma-García, L., Thuillier, J., Guzman-Espinola, A., Ensinck, I., Li de la Sierra-Gallay, I., Lazar, N., Aumont-Nicaise, M., Mignolet, J., Soumillion, P., Nessler, S., & Hols, P. (2020). Molecular dissection of pheromone selectivity in the competence signaling system ComRS of streptococci. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(14), 201916085. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916085117 (Original work published 2020)

Khan, M. S., Gargiulo, S., & Soumillion, P. (2020). Promiscuous activity of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase produced at physiological level affords Escherichia coli growth on d-malate. FEBS Letters. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13814 (Original work published 2020)