2024
Conservation of antiviral systems across domains of life reveals immune genes in humans
Cury J.*, Haudiquet M.*, Hernandez-Trejo V., Mordret E*., Hanouna A., Rotival M, Tesson F.,Bonhmme, D. Ofir G., Quintana-Murci L., Benaroch P., Poirier Z. P*., Bernheim A.*
Cell Host and Microbes, 10.1016/j.chom.2024.08.002 (2024)
Scientific Commentary: Cell Host and Microbes
Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold
Shomar H*.,Georjon H.*, Feng Y, Olympio B, Cury J, Tesson F., Wu F*., Bernheim A*.
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 10.1038/s41559-024-02463-z, https://hal.science/hal-04690206 (2024)
Scientific Commentary: Nature Research Briefing
A family of lanthipeptides with anti-phage function
Shomar H., Tesson F., Guillaume M., Ongenae V., Le Bot ., Georjon H., Mordret E., Zhang L., van Wezel G., Rozen D., Briegel A., Zirah S., Claessen D., Li Y., Bernheim A.
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.06.26.600839 (2024)
Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages, and mobile
genetic elements
Tesson F.*, Huiting E.*, Wei L, Ren J., Johnson M., Planel R., Cury J., Feng Y., Bondy-Denomy J*, Bernheim A.*
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.08.21.608784 (2024)
Evolutionary origins of archaeal and eukaryotic RNA-guided RNA modification in bacterial IS110 transposons
Vaysset H*, Meers C¨, Cury J, Bernheim A*, Sternberg S*
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.06.21.599552 (2024)
A Comprehensive Resource for Exploring Antiphage Defense: DefenseFinder Webservice, Wiki and Databases.
Tesson F., Planel R., Egorov A., Georjon H., Vaysset H., Brancotte B., Neron B., Mordret E., Atkinson G., Bernheim A*, Cury J*
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.01.25.577194 (2024)
The immune modules conserved across the tree of life: Towards a definition of ancestral immunity
Bernheim A.*, Cury J, Poirier Z. E*.
Plos Biology, 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002717 (2024) (Essay)
A virally-encoded tRNA neutralizes the PARIS antiviral defence system
Burman N.*, Belukhina S.* , Depardieu F.*, Wilkinson R.*, Skutel M., Santiago-Frangos A., Graham A., Livenskyi A., Chechenina A., Morozova N, Zahl T., Henriques W., Buyukyoruk M., Rouillon C., Shyrokova L, Kurata, T Hauryliuk V, Severinov K, Groseille J, Thierry A, Koszul R., Tesson F., Bernheim A, Bikard D., Wiedenheft B, Isaev A.
Nature, 0.1038/s41586-024-07874-3 (2024)
Lessons from twenty years of the life of commensal Escherichia coli populations in a human gut
Condamine B, Morel-Journel T., Tesson F., Magnan M., Bernheim A., Denamur E., Blanquart F. , Clermont O.
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2024.01.25.577194 (2024)
2023
The highly diverse antiphage defence systems of bacteria
Georjon H, Bernheim A.
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 1/-15 (2023) (Review)
Chosen for Nature Reviews Microbiology 20th Anniversary collection.
Predicting phage-bacteria interactions at the strain level from genomes
Gaborieau B*, Vaysset H*., Tesson H*., Charachon I., Dib N., Bernier J., Dequidt T., Georjon H., Clermont O., Hersen P., Debarbieux L, Ricard JD, Denamur E., Bernheim A
bioRxiv, 2023.11. 22.567924 (2023)
Genomic characterization of the antiviral arsenal of Actinobacteria
Georjon H., Tesson F., Shomar H*., Bernheim A*.
Microbiology Aug;169(8):001374 (2023)
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?
Tesson F., Bernheim A.
Curr Opinion in Microbiology Feb:71:102238 (2023) (Review)
Immunité bactérienne: à la découverte d’un nouveau monde
A Hardy, H Shomar, A Bernheim
médecine/sciences 39 (11), 862-868 (2023) (Review)
2022
Systematic and quantitative view of the anti-viral arsenal of prokaryotes
Tesson F., Hervé A., Touchon M., Mordret E., d’Humières C., Cury J., Bernheim A.
Nature Communications, 13:256 (2022)
Scientific Commentary: Nature Reviews Microbiology
CRISPR-Cas and restriction-modification team up to achieve long-term immunity
Cury J, Bernheim A
Trends in Microbiology, S0966-842X(22)00091-9. (2022) (Comment)
An expanding arsenal of immune systems that protect bacteria from phages
Millman A., Melamed S., Leavitt A., Doron S., Bernheim A, Hör J., Lopatina A., Ofir G., Hochhauser D., Stokar-Avihail A., Tal N., Sharir S., Voichek M., Erez Z., Lorenzo M Ferrer J., Dar D., Kacen A., Amitai G., Sorek R.
Cell Host and Microbes, 30,1556-1569 (2022)
Phages and their satellites encode hotspots of antiviral systems
Rousset F., Depardieu F., Miele S., Dowding J., Liebermann E., Garry D., Rocha E.P.C, Bernheim A, Bikard D.
Cell Host and Microbes, S1931-3128(22)00104-4(2022)
Evolutionary and mechanistic diversity of Type I-F CRISPR-associated transposons
Klompe S, Jaber N, Bel L, Mohabir J, Bernheim A, Sternberg S.
Molecular Cell 82 (3), 616-628e5 (2022)
Before 2021 (start of the lab), relevant publications
Prokaryotic viperins produce diverse antiviral molecules
Bernheim A., Millman A., Ofir G., Meitav G., Abraham C., Shomar H., Rosenberg M., Tal N., Melamed S., Amitai G., Sorek R.
Nature, 589,120-124,(2021)
Bacterial retrons function in anti- phage defense
Millman A*, Bernheim A*, Stokar-Avihail A.*, Fedorenko T., Voichek M., Leavitt A., Sorek R.
Cell, (183(6), 1551-1561 (2023)
The bacterial pan-immune system: anti-phage defense as a community resource
Bernheim A, Sorek R
Nature Reviews Microbiology , 18, 113-119 (2020)
Atypical organizations and epistatic interactions of CRISPRs and cas clusters in genomes and their mobile gemetic elements
Bernheim A, Bikard D, Touchon M, Rocha EPC:
Nucleic Acids Research 48 (2), 748-760 (2020)
A matter of background: DNA repair, pathways as a possible cause for the sparse distribution of CRISPR–Cas, systems in bacteria
Bernheim A, Bikard D, Touchon M, Rocha EPC
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374 (1772), 2018008 (2019)
Inhibition of NHEJ repair by type II-A CRISPR-Cas systems
Bernheim A, Calvo-Villaman A, Basier C, Cui L, Rocha EPC, Touchon M, Bikard D,
Nature Communications 8 (1), 1-9 (2017)