Dr. Alicia Contet

Education

2009 B.Sc. (Biochemistry) University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
2011 M.Sc. (Biotechnologies) University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
2009 Ph.D. (Biochemistry) University of Montpellier, France

Positions held

2010 Research assistant, CEA Grenoble
2011 Research assistant, DIMNP - University of Montpellier
2011-2015 PhD candidate, DIMNP - University of Montpellier
2015- Post-doctoral associate, Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University

Publications

3. Contet A., Pihan E., Lavigne M., Wengelnik K., Maheshwari S., Vial H., Douguet D. & Cerdan R. (2015) “Plasmodium falciparum CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase possesses two functional catalytic domains and is inhibited by a CDP-choline analog selected from a virtual screening”, FEBS Lett. 589, 992-1000. DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.03.003PMID: 25771858
2. Nagy GN., Marton L., Contet A., Ozohanics O., Ardelean LM., Révész A., K Vékey K., Irimie FD.,  Vial H., Cerdan R., Vertessy BG. (2014) “Composite aromatic box: a structural motif for binding and enzyme-catalyzed conversion of quaternary ammonium substrates”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 53, 13471-6. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408246. PMID: 25283789
1. Maheshwari S, Lavigne M, Contet A, Alberge B, Pihan E, Kocken C, Wengelnik K, Douguet D, Vial H, Cerdan R. (2013) “Biochemical characterization of Plasmodium falciparum CTP:phosphoethanolamine cytidylyltransferase shows that only one of the two cytidylyltransferase domains is active”, Biochem J. 450, 159-67. DOI: 10.1042/BJ20121480. PMID: 23198904