Graduate in Biochemistry from Paris VII University, Jussieu
Assistant and assistant Professor at Paris VII University from
1973 to 1989 : teaching in cellular and molecular biology,
epistemology and history of molecular biology.
Professor at Paris XI University from 1989 to present :
teaching in cellular biology, molecular biology of DNA, evolution
of microorganisms.
Research interests : DNA replication - DNA polymerases and
topoisomerases - Origin and evolution of life - Archaebacteria -
Origin and evolution of hyperthermophiles.
FORTERRE P. and KOHIYAMA M.
"Evidence for the existence of two steps in DNA replication
obtained in toluene treated Escherichia coli".
Eur. J. Biochem. 90, 537-546 (1978).
FORTERRE P.
"Model for the supercoiling reaction catalyzed by DNA gyrase".
J. Theor. Biol. 82, 255-269 (1980).
BARBEYRON T., KEAN K. and FORTERRE P.
"DNA adenine methylation of GATC sequences appeared recently in
Escherichia coli lineage".
J. Bacteriol. 160, 586-590 (1984).
FORTERRE P., ELIE C. and KOHIYAMA M.
"Aphidicolin inhibits growth and DNA synthesis in halophilic
archaebacteria". J. Bacteriol. 159, 800-802 (1984).
MIRAMBEAU G., DUGUET M. and FORTERRE P.
"ATP dependent DNA topoisomerase from the archaebacteria
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius".
J. Mol. Biol., 179, 559-563 (1984).
FORTERRE P., MIRAMBEAU G., JAXEL C. NADAL M. and DUGUET M.
"High positive supercoiling in vitro catalyzed by an ATP and
polyethylene glycol-stimulated topoisomerase from Sulfolobus
acidocaldarius".
EMBO J. 4, 2123-2128 (1985).
NADAL M., MIRAMBEAU G., FORTERRE P., REITER W.D. and DUGUET
M.
"Positively supercoiled DNA in a virus-like particle of an
archaebacterium".
Nature, 321, 256-258 (1986).
SIOUD M., BALDACCI G., FORTERRE P. and DE RECONDO A.M.
"Antitumoral drugs inhibit the growth of halophilic
archaebacteria".
Eur. J. Biochem. 169, 231-236 (1987).
SIOUD M., POSSOT O., ELIE C., SIBOLD L. and FORTERRE P.
"Coumarins and quinolones action in archaebacteria : evidence
for the presence of a DNA gyrase-like enzyme".
J. Bacteriol. 170, 946-953 (1988).
SIOUD M., BALDACCI G., DE RECONDO A.M. and FORTERRE P.
"Novobiocin induces positive supercoiling of small plasmids from
halophilic archaebacteria".
Nucleic acids res. 16, 1379-1392 (1988).
SIOUD M., BALDACCI G., FORTERRE P. and DE RECONDO A.M.
"Novobiocin induces accumulation of a single strand of plasmid
pGRB-1 in the archaebacterium Halobacterium GRB".
Nucl. Acids Res. 16: 7833-7842. (1988).
NADAL M., JAXEL C., PORTEMER C., FORTERRE P., MIRAMBEAU G. and
DUGUET M.
"The reverse gyrase of Sulfolobus: Purification to homogeneity and
characterization".
Biochemistry. 27, 9102-9108 (1988).
ELIE C., SALHI S., ROSSIGNOL J.M., FORTERRE P. and DE RECONDO,
A.M.
"DNA polymerase from a thermoacidophilic archaebacterium:
evolutionary and technological interest".
Biophysica Biochemica Acta, 951, 261-267 (1988).
ELIE C., DE RECONDO A.M. and FORTERRE P.
"Thermostable DNA polymerase from the archaebacterium Sulfolobus
acidocaldarius: Purification, characterization and obtention of
polyclonal antibodies".
Eur. J. Biochem.178, 619-626 (1989).
SIOUD M., and FORTERRE P.
"Ciprofloxacin and etoposide (VP16) produce similar pattern of
cleavage in a plasmid of an archaebacterium".
Biochemistry, 28:3638-3641 (1989).
SALHI S., ELIE C., FORTERRE P., DE RECONDO A.M. and ROSSIGNOL
J.M
"The DNA polymerase from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius . Replication
at high temperature of long stretches of single-stranded DNA."
J. Mol. Biol., 209: 635-644 (1989).
JAXEL, C, NADAL M., MIRAMBEAU G., FORTERRE P. TAKAHASHI M.,
and DUGUET M.
"Reverse gyrase performs unwinding of the double helix and
single-strand cleavage in the absence of ATP."
EMBO J., 8: 3135-3139. (1989)
FORTERRE P. ELIE C., SIOUD M. and HAMAL A.
" Studies on DNA polymerases and topoisomerases on
archaebacteria".
Can. J. Biochem., 35, 228-233 (1989).
SALHI S., ELIE C., JEAN-JEAN O., MEUNIER-ROTIVAL M., FORTERRE
P., ROSSIGNOL J.M. AND DE RECONDO A.M.
"The DNA polymerase from the archaebacterium Sulfolobus
acidocaldarius : a thermophilic and thermoresistant enzyme which
can perform automated polymerase chain reaction".
BBRC, 167, 1341-1347.(1990).
HAMAL, A., FORTERRE, P. AND ELIE C.
"Purification and characterization of a DNA polymerase from the
archaebacterium Thermoplasma acidophilum."
Eur. J. Biochem., 190, 517-52 (1990).
BOUTIER DE LA TOUR, C., PORTEMER, C., NADAL, M., STETTER, K.,
FORTERRE, P. AND DUGUET, M.
"Reverse gyrase, an hallmark of the hyperthermophilic
archaebacteria.
J. Bacteriol. 172; 6803-6808 (1990).
BOUTIER DE LA TOUT, C., PORTEMER, C., HUBER, R.; FORTERRE, P.
AND DUGUET, M.
"Reverse gyrase is present in thermophilic eubacteria.
J. Bacteriol.173; 3921-3923 (1991).