The Absalon Lab

- Louis Pasteur -
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Absalon S, Blomqvist K, Rudlaff R, DeLano TJ, Pollastri MP, Dvorin JD. Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase 5 Is Required for Release of Egress-Specific Organelles in Plasmodium falciparum. MBio Feb 27;9(1) PDF
2013
Absalon S#, Kochanek DM#, Raghavan V, Krichevsky AM. MiR-26b, upregulated in Alzheimer's disease, activates cell cycle entry, tau-phosphorylation, and apoptosis in postmitotic neurons. The Journal of Neurosciences 33(37), 14645-14659. (#Equal contribution) PDF
Absalon S, Blisnick T, Bonhivers M, Kohl L, Cayet N, Toutirais G, Buisson J, Robinson D, Bastin P. Flagellum elongation is required for correct structure, orientation and function of the flagellar pocket in Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Cell Science 121(22), 3704-3716. PDF
2008
Absalon S, Blisnick T, Kohl L, Toutirais G, Doré G, Julkowska D, Tavenet A, Bastin P. Intraflagellar transport and functional analysis of genes required for flagellum formation in trypanosomes. Molecular Biology of the Cell 19 (3), 929-944 PDF
2016
Sanz S, López-Gutiérrez B, Bandini G, Damerow S, Absalon S, Dinglasan R, Samuelson J and Izquierdo L. The disruption of GDP-fucose de novo biosynthesis suggests the presence of a novel fucose-containing glycoconjugate in Plasmodium asexual blood stages. Sci Rep PDF
Absalon S, Robbins JA and Dvorin JD. An essential malaria protein defines the architecture of blood-stage and transmission-stage parasites. Nature Communications 7:11449 PDF
2014
Blisnick T, Buisson J, Absalon S, Marie A, Cayet N, Bastin P. The intraflagellar transport dynein complex of trypanosomes is made of a heterodimer of dynein heavy chains and of light and intermediate chains of distinct functions. Molecular Biology of the Cell 25(17) PDF
Nixon CE, Dvorin JD, DiPetrillo CG, Pond-Tor S, Wu HW, Jolly G, Pischel L, Lu A, Michelow IC, Cheng L, Conteh S, McDonald EA, Absalon S, Holte SE, Friedman JF, Fried M, Duffy PE, Kurtis JD. Antibodies to PfSEA-1 block parasite egress from RBCs and protect against malaria infection. Science 344(6186):871-7. PDF
2007
Durand-Dubief M, Absalon S, Menzer L, Ngwabyt S, Ersfeld K, Bastin P. The Argonaute protein TbAGO1 contributes to large and mini-chromosome segregation and is required for control of RIME retroposons and RHS pseudogene-associated transcripts. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 156 (2), 144-153.
Absalon S#, Kohl L#, Branche C, Blisnick T, Toutirais G, Rusconi F, Cosson J, Bonhivers M, Robinson D, Bastin P. Basal body positioning is controlled by flagellum formation in Trypanosoma brucei. PLos One 2 (5), e437. (#Equal contribution) PDF