Markel Martínez-Carranza
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Markel Martínez-Carranza
@markelmc.bsky.social
MSCA postdoctoral fellow @ Pasteur Institute - Structural Biology - interested in archaeal DNA replication
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Glad to share our paper out today @NatureEcoEvo: “Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #archaeasky
Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to the eukaryotic DNA replication machinery.
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Reposted by Markel Martínez-Carranza
We’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM
May 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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So happy to have published my PhD work! What a funky phage, it was a ride. Big thanks to @beatrizbeamud.bsky.social & @jmouradesousa.bsky.social for bringing their expertise into this story. And my mentors @jmghigolab.bsky.social & @dbikard.bsky.social 💪🏼
How does the lysogenic-lytic cycle work in intestinal #bacteriophages? @sol-uble.bsky.social @dbikard.bsky.social @jmghigolab.bsky.social &co show that hankyphage produces defective viral particles & identify RepCHP as master repressor of this #phage's lytic cycle @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41Rr22S
April 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Super happy to see this work finally out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Great team effort revealing how single-stranded DNA binding protein RPA interacts with the DNA polymerases in the archaeal replisome 🧵(1/4)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@sauguet-lab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
Communication between DNA polymerases and Replication Protein A within the archaeal replisome - Nature Communications
The single stranded DNA binding protein RPA plays a pivotal role in DNA replication. The archaeal RPA hosts a WH domain that interacts with the DNA primase and the replicative polymerase PolD. Here th...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Interested in the plasmidverse? Then, don't think twice and join the International Society for Plasmid Biology Virtual Seminars Series. 👇
January 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM