Publications

2025

• Chen M., Koszti S.G., Bonavoglia A., Maco B., von Rohr O., Peng H.J., Soldati-Favre D., Kloehn J. (2025):  Dissecting apicoplast functions through continuous cultivation of Toxoplasma gondii devoid of the organelle. Nat.Commun. 16(1): 2095

• Rabesahala de Meritens C., Carreras-Sureda A., Rosa N., Pick R., Scheiermann C., Demaurex N. (2025): STIM1/2 maintain signaling competence at ER-PM contact sites during neutrophil spreading. J. Cell Biol. 224(5): e202406053

2024

• Ren B., Haase R., Patray S., Nguyen Q., Maco B., Dos Santos Pacheco N., Chang Y.W., Soldati-Favre D. (2024):  Architecture of the Toxoplasma gondii apical polar ring and its role in gliding motility and invasion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121(46): e2416602121

• Haase R., Puthenpurackal A., Maco B., Guérin A., Soldati-Favre D. (2024): γ-tubulin complex controls the nucleation of tubulin-based structures in Apicomplexa. Mol. Biol. Cell 35(9): ar121

• Marq J.B., Gosetto M., Altenried A., Vadas O., Maco B., Dos Santos Pacheco N., Tosetti N., Soldati-Favre D., Lentini G. (2024): Cytokinetic abscission in Toxoplasma gondii is governed by protein phosphatase 2A and the daughter cell scaffold complex. EMBO J. 43(17): 3752-3786

• Ben Chaabene R., Martinez M., Bonavoglia A., Maco B., Chang Y.W., Lentini G., Soldati-Favre D. (2024): Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry discharge factor 3 is essential for invasion and microtubule-associated vesicle biogenesis. PLoS Biol. 22(8): e3002745

• Dos Santos Pacheco N., Tell I Puig A., Guérin A., Martinez M., Maco B., Tosetti N., Delgado-Betancourt E., Lunghi M., Striepen B., Chang Y.W., Soldati-Favre D. (2024): Sustained rhoptry docking and discharge requires Toxoplasma gondii intraconoidal microtubule-associated proteins. Nat. Commun. 15(1): 379

• Mercey O., Gadadhar S., Magiera M.M., Lebrun L., Kostic C., Moulin A., Arsenijevic Y., Janke C., Guichard P., Hamel V. (2024): Glutamylation imbalance impairs the molecular architecture of the photoreceptor cilium. EMBO J. 43(24): 6679-6704

• Bian C., Marchetti A., Dias M., Perrin J., Cosson P. (2024): Short transmembrane domains target type II proteins to the Golgi apparatus and type I proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum. J. Cell Sci. 137(15): js261738

• Unay J., Kint N., Viollier P.H. (2024): Evolution of paralogous multicomponent systems for site-specific O-sialylation of flagellin in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Curr. Biol. 34(13): 2932-2947.e7

• Larrue C., Mouche S., Tamburini J. (2024): The E3 ubiquitin ligase MARCH5 promotes mitochondrial fusion and cell-cycle progression in acute myeloid leukemia. Blood Adv. 9(2): 337-342

•  Tankov S., Petrovic M., Lecoultre M., Espinoza F., El-Harane N., Bes V., Chliate S., Bedoya D.M., Jordan O., Borchard G., Migliorini D., Dutoit V., Walker P.R. (2024): Hypoxic glioblastoma-cell-derived extracellular vesicles impair cGAS-STING activity in macrophages. Cell Commun. Signal. 22(1): 144

2023

• Kaba M., Carreras-Sureda A., Nunes-Hasler P., Demaurex N. (2023): The lipid transfer proteins Nir2 and Nir3 sustain phosphoinositide signaling and actin dynamics during phagocytosis. J. Cell Sci. 136(14): jcs260902

• Pietsch E., Ramaprasad A., Bielfeld S., Wohlfarter Y., Maco B., Niedermüller K., Wilcke L., Kloehn J., Keller M.A., Soldati-Favre D., Blackman M.J., Gilberger T.-W., Burda P.-C. (2023): A patatin-like phospholipase is important for mitochondrial function in malaria parasites. mBio. 14(6): e0171823

• Dubois D.J., Chehade S., Marq J.B., Venugopal K., Maco B., Tell I Puig A., Soldati-Favre D., Marion S. (2023): Toxoplasma gondii HOOK-FTS-HIP complex is critical for secretory organelle discharge during motility, invasion, and egress. mBio. 14(3): e0045823

• Kint N., Viollier P.H. (2023): Extracellular transfer of a conserved polymerization factor for multi-flagellin filament assembly in Caulobacter. Cell Rep. 42(8): 112890

• Larrue C., Mouche S., Lin S., Simonetta F., Scheidegger N.K., Poulain L., Birsen R., Sarry J.E., Stegmaier K., Tamburini J. (2023): Mitochondrial fusion is a therapeutic vulnerability of acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 37(4): 765-775

• Köhler T., Luscher A., Falconnet L., Resch G., McBride R., Mai Q.A., Simonin J.L., Chanson M., Maco B., Galiotto R., Riat A., Civic N., Docquier M., McCallin S., Chan B., van Delden C. (2023): Personalized aerosolised bacteriophage treatment of a chronic lung infection due to multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nat. Commun. 14(1): 3629

• Kuehnel R.M.,  Ganga E.,  Balestra A.C.,  Suarez C.,  Wyss M.,  Klages N.,  Brusini L.,  Maco B., Brancucci N.,  Voss T.S.,  Soldati-Favre D.,  Brochet M.  (2023):                 A Plasmodium membrane receptor platform integrates cues for egress and invasion in blood forms and activation of transmission stages. Sci. Adv. 9(24): eadf2161

• Kint N., Dubois T., Viollier P.H. (2023): Stereoisomer-specific reprogramming of a bacterial flagellin sialyltransferase. EMBO J. 42(5): e112880

2022

• Sparvoli D., Delabre J., Penarete-Vargas D.M., Kumar Mageswaran S., Tsypin L.M., Heckendorn J., Theveny L., Maynadier M., Mendonça Cova M., Berry-Sterkers L., Guérin A., Dubremetz J.F., Urbach S., Striepen B., Turkewitz A.P., Chang Y.W., Lebrun M. (2022): An apical membrane complex for triggering rhoptry exocytosis and invasion in Toxoplasma. EMBO J. 41(22): e111158

• Mercey O., Kostic C., Bertiaux E., Giroud A., Sadian Y., Gaboriau D.C.A., Morrison C.G., Chang N., Arsenijevic Y., Guichard P., Hamel V. (2022): The connecting cilium inner scaffold provides a structural foundation that protects against retinal degeneration. PLoS Biol. 20(6): e300164

• Dogga S.K., Lunghi M., Maco B., Li J., Marq J.B., Chicherova N., Kockmann T., Bumann D., Hehl A.B., Soldati-Favre D., Hammoudi P.M. (2022): Importance of aspartyl protease 5 in the intracellular niche during acute and chronic infection of Toxoplasma gondii. Mol. Microbiol. 118(6): 601-622

• Dos Santos Pacheco N., Brusini L., Haase R., Tosetti N., Maco B., Brochet M., Vadas O., Soldati-Favre D. (2022): Conoid extrusion regulates glideosome assembly to control motility and invasion in Apicomplexa. Nat. Microbiol. 7(11): 1777-1790

• Nyonda M.A., Kloehn J., Sosnowski P., Krishnan A., Lentini G., Maco B., Marq J.B., Hannich J.T., Hopfgarter G., Soldati-Favre D. (2022): Ceramide biosynthesis is critical for establishment of the intracellular niche of Toxoplasma gondii. Cell Rep. 40(7): 111224

• Henry C., Carreras-Sureda A., Demaurex N.(2022): Enforced tethering elongates the cortical endoplasmic reticulum and limits store-operated Ca²⁺ entry.            J. Cell Sci. 135(6): jcs259313

• Decroocq J., Birsen R., Montersino C., Chaskar P., Mano J., Poulain L., Friedrich C., Alary A.S., Guermouche H., Sahal A., Fouquet G., Gotanègre M., Simonetta F., Mouche S., Gestraud P., Lescure A., Del Nery E., Bosc C., Grenier A., Mazed F., Mondesir J., Chapuis N., Ho L., Boughalem A., Lelorc'h M.., Gobeaux C., Fontenay M., Recher C., Vey N., Guillé A., Birnbaum D., Hermine O., Radford-Weiss I., Tsantoulis P., Collette Y., Castellano R., Sarry J.E., Pasmant E., Bouscary D., Kosmider O., Tamburini J. (2022): RAS activation induces synthetic lethality of MEK inhibition with mitochondrial oxidative metabolism in acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 36(5): 1237-1252