Quentin Vicens, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Publications

• Vicens Q. Special Issue: Frontiers in RNA Structure. Molecules. 2020 Oct 21;25(20). PubMed PMID: 33096601
• Jones RA, Steckelberg AL, Vicens Q, Szucs MJ, Akiyama BM, Kieft JS. Different tertiary interactions create the same important 3-D features in a distinct flavivirus xrRNA. RNA. 2020 Oct 1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33004436
• Szucs MJ, Nichols PJ, Jones RA, Vicens Q, Kieft JS. A New Subclass of Exoribonuclease-Resistant RNA Found in Multiple Genera of Flaviviridae . mBio. 2020 Sep 29;11(5). PubMed PMID: 32994331
• Steckelberg AL, Vicens Q, Costantino DA, Nix JC, Kieft JS. The crystal structure of a Polerovirus exoribonuclease-resistant RNA shows how diverse sequences are integrated into a conserved fold. RNA. 2020 Dec;26(12):1767-1776. PubMed PMID: 32848042
• Q. Vicens, Y. Kim, and J. Harrowfield, Jacques Vicens: an obituary. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry (2020), 98:123-125.
• J.-F. Parmentier and Q. Vicens, 4 scénarios pour enseigner ou former à distance - Exemples concrets et fiches pratiques, [Four scenarios for online teaching and professional development - Concrete examples and practical advice], Dunod, Paris, France, 2020.
• Vicens Q, Coumoul X, Souciet JL. A forum where french-speaking faculty can exchange research on teaching. Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2019 Sep;47(5):599-606. PubMed PMID: 31141270
• Steckelberg AL, Vicens Q, Kieft JS. Exoribonuclease-Resistant RNAs Exist within both Coding and Noncoding Subgenomic RNAs. MBio. 2018 Dec 18;9(6). PubMed PMID: 30563900
• Vicens Q, Kieft JS, Rissland OS. Revisiting the Closed-Loop Model and the Nature of mRNA 5'-3' Communication. Mol Cell. 2018 Dec 6;72(5):805-812. PubMed PMID: 30526871
• Vicens Q, Mondragón E, Reyes FE, Coish P, Aristoff P, Berman J, Kaur H, Kells KW, Wickens P, Wilson J, Gadwood RC, Schostarez HJ, Suto RK, Blount KF, Batey RT. Structure-Activity Relationship of Flavin Analogues That Target the Flavin Mononucleotide Riboswitch. ACS Chem Biol. 2018 Oct 19;13(10):2908-2919. PubMed PMID: 30107111
• D'Ascenzo L, Vicens Q, Auffinger P. Identification of receptors for UNCG and GNRA Z-turns and their occurrence in rRNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Sep 6;46(15):7989-7997. PubMed PMID: 29986118
• Q. Vicens, A. Bochler, A. Jobe, J. Frank & Y. Hashem, Chapter 13: Interaction networks of ribosomal expansion segments in kinetoplastids, in Macromolecular Protein Complexes III (Ed. J.R. Harris, Springer, Cham), in press.
• I.S. Abaeva, Q. Vicens, A. Bochler, H. Soufari, A. Simonetti, T.V. Pestova, Y. Hashem, C.U.T. Hellen. The Halastavi árva virus intergenic region IRES promotes translation by the simplest possible initiation mechanism (2020), bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.20.347120 (now in press at Cell Reports).