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In 1995 Prof. Bensimon shifted his research focus to the study of the elastic properties of DNA. While a number of researchers had been pulling/stretching single DNA molecules, he recognized that since the structure of DNA is a double helix, twisting it should be biologically more informative and relevant. To that purpose he invented the Magnetic Trap, a tool that allowed him to pull and twist individual DNA molecules. This has enabled him to study, at the single-molecule level, the interactions between DNA and topoisomerases (enzymes that modify the topology of a DNA molecule, relieving torsional stress that builds up during transcription and replication). This influential series of fundamental and ground-breaking experiments, carried out with his colleague V. Croquette, earned him the Special Prize of the French Physical Society.
Prof. Bensimon has since broadened his interests to study a variety of increasingly more biological systems: DNA polymerases, helicases, regulation factors, and chromatin remodeling factors, etc. His group is presently engaged in forays in three novel directions: a coupling between single-molecule manipulation and fluorescent visualization, studies of evolution in bacteria, and the development of photo-activatable regulation factors. Very recently, he has made considerable progress towards optically controlling the activity of any protein/enzyme in a single cell of the zebra fish. This work is poised to revolutionize the field of developmental biology.
Prof. Bensimon has since broadened his interests to study a variety of increasingly more biological systems: DNA polymerases, helicases, regulation factors, and chromatin remodeling factors, etc. His group is presently engaged in forays in three novel directions: a coupling between single-molecule manipulation and fluorescent visualization, studies of evolution in bacteria, and the development of photo-activatable regulation factors. Very recently, he has made considerable progress towards optically controlling the activity of any protein/enzyme in a single cell of the zebra fish. This work is poised to revolutionize the field of developmental biology.
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Chemistry (2024)
Pierluigi Scerbo, Benjamin Tisserand,Marine Delagrange, Héloïse Debare,David Bensimon,Bertrand Ducos
biorxiv(2024)
Handbook of Nonmedical Applications of Liposomespp.69-84, (2023)
Danilo D. Lasic,Yechezkel Barenholz,Ching-hsien Huang, Shusen Li,Ole G. Mouritsen,Shlomo Nir,Mario Corti,Vladimir P. Torchilin,Mathias Winterhalter,Sasa Svetina,Udo Seifert,B. Fourcade,B. Dammann,Paavo K. J. Kinnunen, Jeffrey T. Mason,Boris Tenchov,S. Marcelja,P. M. Frederik,Bostjan Zeks,Reinhard Lipowsky,X. Michalet,D. Bensimon,H. C. Fogedby,Laura Cantu,Rumiana Koynova,Deborah R. Fattal,Avinoam Ben-Shaul,Marc C.A. Stuart,P.H.H. Bomans
CRC Press eBooks (2023)
Fangyuan Ding,Simona Cocco,Saurabh Raj,Maria Manosas, Thao Thi Thu Nguyen,Michelle M. Spiering,David Bensimon, Jean-Francois Allemand,Vincent Croquette
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCHno. 21 (2022): 12082-12093
Zhen Wang,Jérôme Maluenda,Laurène Giraut,Thibault Vieille, Andréas Lefevre,David Salthouse,Gaël Radou,Rémi Moulinas, Sandra Astete,Pol D’Avezac,Geoff Smith, Charles André,Jean-François Allemand,David Bensimon,Vincent Croquette,Jimmy Ouellet,Gordon Hamilton
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