New publication in Nucleic Acids Research ”Archaeal G-quadruplexes: a novel model for understanding unusual DNA/RNA structures across the tree of life"

Happy to share latest article on G-quadruplexes in Archaea: "Archaeal G-quadruplexes: a novel model for understanding unusual DNA/RNA structures across the tree of life" published in Nucleic Acids Research Link in comments (paper in free access).

We introduce Haloferax volcanii as a tractable archaeal model for G4 biology.
Quadruplexes are everywhere... including in the third domain of life and in salty environments! (H. volcanii is a Halophile).

Congrats Lionel Guittat for coordinating this work! Thanks to the Morphoscope imaging platform at Laboratoire d'Optique et Biosciences (LOB) in École Polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Super-resolution microscopy was extremely helpful to visualize BG4 spots! Thanks to our collaborators in Toulouse, the UK, Italy and the Czech Republic. 

Archaeal G-quadruplexes: a novel model for understanding unusual DNA/RNA structures across the tree of life Open Access

Zackie Aktary , Kate Sorg , Anne Cucchiarini , Guglielmo Vesco , Dorian Noury , Rongxin Zhang , Thomas Jourdain , Daniela Verga , Pierre Mahou , Nicolas Olivier, Natália Bohálová , Otília Porubiaková , Václav Brázda , Marie Bouvier , Marta Kwapisz , Béatrice Clouet-d’Orval , Thorsten Allers , Roxane Lestini , Jean-Louis Mergny , Lionel Guittat 

https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/54/4/gkag067/8462608