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Reductionism and complexity in molecular biology. Scientists now have the tools to unravel biological and overcome the limitations of reductionismMarc H V Van Regenmortel
, France
EMBO Rep 5:1016-20. 2004
Reductionism and the search for structure-function relationships in antibody moleculesMarc H V Van Regenmortel
Biotechnology School, CNRS, University of Strasbourg, France
J Mol Recognit 15:240-7. 2002..Although knowledge of antibody structure is of little use in vaccine design, it may help to develop therapeutic inhibitors and antibodies effective in the passive immunotherapy of viral infection...
What is a B-cell epitope?Marc H V Van Regenmortel
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Illkirch Cedex, France
Methods Mol Biol 524:3-20. 2009..Methods for predicting the epitopes of proteins are discussed and the reasons for the low success rate of epitope prediction are analyzed...
Emerging issues in virus taxonomyMarc H V Van Regenmortel
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Biotechnology School, University of Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
Emerg Infect Dis 10:8-13. 2004..We briefly describe the changes in virus classification that were introduced in that report. We also discuss recent proposals to introduce a nonlatinized binomial nomenclature for virus species...
The rational design of biological complexity: a deceptive metaphorMarc H V Van Regenmortel
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, Illkirch, France
Proteomics 7:965-75. 2007..Current developments in systems biology may give us eventually a better understanding of the immune system and this may enable us in the future to develop improved vaccines...
Improving the quality of BIACORE-based affinity measurementsM H V Van Regenmortel
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, CNRS, Illkirch, France
Dev Biol (Basel) 112:141-51. 2003..There is little justification for the belief that ELISA methods provide in principle more reliable affinity parameters than biosensor technology...
Biological complexity emerges from the ashes of genetic reductionismM H V Van Regenmortel
School of Biotechnology, University of Strasbourg, Boulevard Sebastien Brand, 67400 Illkirch, France
J Mol Recognit 17:145-8. 2004
15th meeting on Methods in Protein Structure Analysis. 29th August-2nd September, 2004, University of Washington, WA, USAMarc H V Van Regenmortel
University of Strasbourg, School of Biotechnology, CNRS, Illkirch, 67400, France
Expert Rev Proteomics 1:397-9. 2004
Antigenicity and immunogenicity of synthetic peptidesM H Van Regenmortel
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Boulevard Sebastien Brandt, 67400 Illkirch, France
Biologicals 29:209-13. 2001..For this reason, it is not possible to develop a synthetic peptide vaccine using molecular design principles...
Recognition of peptides by antibodies and investigations of affinity using biosensor technologyM H Van Regenmortel
ESBS, CNRS, Boulv Sebastien Brant, Illkirch, 67400, France
Comb Chem High Throughput Screen 4:385-95. 2001..The importance of peptide conformation in antibody recognition is discussed, and the antigenic reactivity of epitopes in synthetic peptides and in cognate, intact proteins is compared...
Virus species and virus identification: past and current controversiesM H V Van Regenmortel
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, CNRS, Boulevard Sebastien Brandt, 67400 ILLKIRCH Cedex 2, France
Infect Genet Evol 7:133-44. 2007..The names of virus species in current use are discussed as well as a binomial system that may be introduced in the future...
Antigenic mimicry of natural L-peptides with retro-inverso-peptidomimeticsG Guichard
Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Unité Propre de Recherche 9021, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91:9765-9. 1994..The use of retro-inverso-peptides to replace natural L-peptides is likely to find many applications in immunodiagnosis and as potential synthetic vaccines...
Structure of viral B-cell epitopesM H Van Regenmortel
Laboratoire d Immunochimie, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Res Microbiol 141:747-56. 1990..The epitopes of four well-characterized viruses, namely poliovirus, foot-and-mouth disease virus, influenza virus and tobacco mosaic virus are briefly described...
Analysing structure-function relationships with biosensorsM H Van Regenmortel
Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Cell Mol Life Sci 58:794-800. 2001..However, biosensors can be used to determine and predict the influence of the chemical environment and of the structure of a ligand on binding kinetics...
Mimicry of viral epitopes with retro-inverso peptides of increased stabilityN Benkirane
Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Dev Biol Stand 87:283-91. 1996..In view of their increased stability compared to natural L-peptides, retro-inverso peptidomimetics have considerable potential as synthetic viral vaccines...
Structure-activity relationships in peptide-antibody complexes: implications for epitope prediction and development of synthetic peptide vaccinesShu Wen W Chen
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, CNRS, F 67412 Illkirch, France
Curr Med Chem 16:953-64. 2009....
Logical puzzles and scientific controversies: the nature of species, viruses and living organismsMarc H V Van Regenmortel
FRE 3211 Institut de Recherche de l Ecole de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, CNRS Universite de Strasbourg, Boulevard Sebastien Brant, 67400 Illkirch, France
Syst Appl Microbiol 33:1-6. 2010..It is argued that viruses are genetic parasites rather than living organisms and that they have no place in the tree of life. This interpretation is based on an analysis of the properties of living agents and living organisms...
A paradigm shift is needed in proteomics: 'structure determines function' should be replaced by 'binding determines function'Marc H V Van Regenmortel
J Mol Recognit 15:349-51. 2002
QSAR studies applied to the prediction of antigen-antibody interaction kinetics as measured by BIACORELaurence Choulier
UMR7100-CNRS, ESBS, , 67400 Illkirch Cedex, France and Biacore AB, Rapsgatan 7, SE754 50 Uppsala, Sweden
Protein Eng 15:373-82. 2002..Our results open new perspectives for the predictive optimization of interaction kinetics, with important implications in pharmacology and biotechnology...
