We are delighted to announce that our ESRs Eva Sophie Schönegger (baseclick/LMU) and Ahmad Abdullrahman (University of Reading) recently passed their viva. Eva spent her NATURE-ETN journey at the company baseclick and the Carell group at LMU Munich, while Ahmad completed his PhD at the University of Reading under the co-supervision of Dr. James Hall and Prof. Christine Cardin.
We congratulate Dr. Schönegger and Dr. Abdullrahman on this key milestone in their career!
Our former ESR, now postdoc at the University of Reading, Tayler D. Prieto published a new paper in Chemical Science, titled “Re-pairing DNA: binding of a ruthenium phi complex to a double mismatch”, in collaboration with Diamond Light Source Ltd. and the Kellett group at the Dublin City University.
The paper is available Open Access on the publisher’s website.
Our ESR Tania Sánchez-Quirante, co-authored with colleagues from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences a new paper in ACS Omega, titled “Synthesis and Biological Profiling of Quinolino-Fused 7-Deazapurine Nucleosides”.
The paper is available Open Access.
We are glad to announce that our ESR, Tayler David Prieto, successfully completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Christine Cardin at the University of Reading, UK.
You can find his publications on the Dissemination page.
We congratulate Dr Prieto for this key milestone in his career and wish him all the best for the future steps!
Tayler David Prieto (ESR2, University of Reading) published, together with colleagues from the Cardin group in Reading and the Kellett group at DCU, a paper on Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) titled “Probing a major DNA weakness: resolving the groove and sequence selectivity of the diimine complex [Λ-Ru(phen)2phi]2+”. This work notably benefitted from the use of the infrastructure at Diamond Light Source Ltd.
The paper demonstrates, for the first time, a crystal structure showing groove selectivity by an intercalating ruthenium complex.
It is available in Open Access on the publisher’s website.
The Carell group at LMU, including our ESR Elsa Peev, just published their work on the Synthesis and Structure Elucidation of Glutamyl-Queuosine, in the Journal of the Americal Chemical Society.
The publication is open-access and can be found here.
On the 9th and 10th of November 2023, the Gasser group at Chimie ParisTech hosted the NATURE-ETN Symposium at their premises in Paris, France.
The Symposium was centred on the path from basic research to commercialisation and/or clinical trials. We had the privilege to hear from eminent speakers such as Marie Dutreix (Institut Curie, co-founder of DNA Therapeutics), Thomas Carell (Founder of baseclick), Tom Brown (co-founder of three biotechs, including our partner ATDBio), Nick Farrell (Virginia Commonwealth University), Patrick Couvreur (University Paris-Saclay and serial entrepreneur), Laurence Mulard (Institut Pasteur), and Mark Bazett (Director of Preclinical Development at Bold Therapeutics Inc.).
Some ESRs also presented their poster during the event reception at the beautiful Chimie ParisTech library.
We thank the Gasser group for the smooth organisation, as well as all the speakers for their precious insights from basic science to applications.
Our ESRs Maria Dalla Pozza (PSL University), Tayler David Prieto and Ahmad Abdullrahman (University of Reading) published together with their supervisors and co-authors from the Hollenstein lab at Institut Pasteur, a new article in the Inorganic Chemistry journal.
The article is about Ru(II) complexes with phototoxicity in the nM concentration range.
A group of researchers from the Kellett group at Dublin City University (including our ESR Malou Coche), the Brown group at the University of Oxford, and the company ATDBio, along with the member of our Scientific Advisory Board Nicholas P. Farrell (Virginia Commonwealth University) co-authored a new publication in the journal RSC Medicinal Chemistry.
Titled “Thiazole Orange-Carboplatin Triplex-Forming Oligonucleotide (TFO) Combination Probes Enhance Targeted DNA Crosslinking”, this study reports a new class of Carboplatin-TFO hybrid that incorporates a bifunctional alkyne-amine nucleobase monomer called AP-C3-dT that enables dual ‘click’ platinum(II) drug conjugation and thiazole orange fluorophore coupling.
It is available in Open Access on the journal’s website.
Our ESR Eva Schönegger, together with colleagues from the company baseclick GmbH and the Carell group at LMU Münich, just published a new paper titled “Orthogonal end labelling of oligonucleotides via dual incorporation of Click reactive NTP analogues” on ChemBioChem.
The paper introduces a modular method for modifying DNA and RNA strands at both ends with click-modifiable functional groups using γ-modified ATP analogues and T4 PNK catalysis for 5′-modification, compatible with TdT-catalyzed 3′-elongation using 3′-Azido-2′,3′-ddGTP. The approach is demonstrated to be suitable for oligo-oligo ligations and ssDNA-circularization, potentially enhancing the utility of oligonucleotides in therapeutic and diagnostic applications, particularly in next-generation sequencing.
The list of publications originating from the network can be found on our Dissemination page.