Publications and communications of Francesca Rapino

Joiret, M., Kerff, F., Rapino, F., Close, P., & Geris, L. (July 2023). A simple geometrical model of the electrostatic environment around the catalytic center of the ribosome and its significance for the elongation cycle kinetics. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 21, 3768-3795. doi:10.1016/j.csbj.2023.07.016

Joiret, M., Leclercq, M., Lambrechts, G., Rapino, F., Close, P., Louppe, G., & Geris, L. (06 April 2023). Cracking the genetic code with neural networks. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 6. doi:10.3389/frai.2023.1128153

Joiret, M., Leclercq, M., Lambrechts, G., Rapino, F., Close, P., Louppe, G., & Geris, L. (2023). Cracking the genetic code with neural networks (poster) [Paper presentation]. Neural networks: real versus man-made, Liège, Belgium.

Joiret, M., Rapino, F., Close, P., & Geris, L. (06 September 2022). A simple model of the electrostatic environment around the catalytic center of the ribosome and its significance for the elongation kinetics [Poster presentation]. Translational Control meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, New-York, United States - New York.

Joiret, M., Kerff, F., Rapino, F., Close, P., & Geris, L. (13 January 2022). Ribosome exit tunnel electrostatics. Physical Review. E, 105 (1), 014409-1 - 014409-43. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.014409

Joiret, M., Rapino, F., Close, P., & Geris, L. (09 September 2021). Ribosome exit tunnel electrostatics [Poster presentation]. EMBO - Workshop - Protein synthesis and translational control, Heidelberg, Germany.

Rapino, F.* , ZHOU, Z.* , RONCERO SANCHEZ, A. M.* , Joiret, M., Seca, C., El Hachem, N., Valenti, G., Latini, S., Shostak, K., Geris, L., Li, P., Huang, G., Mazzucchelli, G., Baiwir, D., Desmet, C., Chariot, A., Georges, M., & Close, P. (2021). Wobble tRNA modification and hydrophilic amino acid patterns dictate protein fate. Nature Communications, 12 (1), 2170. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22254-5
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Joiret, M., Rapino, F., Close, P., & Geris, L. (05 September 2019). mRNA translation rate modeling with an extended TASEP incorporating tRNAs modifications [Poster presentation]. EMBO Workshop - Protein Synthesis and Translational Control, Heidelberg, Germany.

Rapino, F., & Close, P. (2018). Wobble uridine tRNA modification: a new vulnerability of refractory melanoma. Molecular and Cellular Oncology. doi:10.1080/23723556.2018.1513725

Delaunay, S., Rapino, F., Tharun, L., Zhou, Z., Heukamp, L., Termathe, M., Shostak, K., Klevernic, I., Florin, A., Desmecht, H., Desmet, C., Nguyen, L., Leiden, S. A., Willis, A. E., Buettner, R., Chariot, A., & Close, P. (October 2016). ELP3 links tRNA modification to IRES-dependent translation of LEF-1 to promote metastasis in breast cancer. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 213, 2503-2523. doi:10.1084/jem.20160397

Rapino, F. (2013). BAG3 induction is required to mitigate proteotoxicity via selective autophagy following inhibition of constitutive protein degradation pathways [Doctoral thesis, J.W. Goethe University]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/191637

Rapino, F., Jung, M., & Fulda, S. (2013). BAG3 induction is required to mitigate proteotoxicity via selective autophagy following inhibition of constitutive protein degradation pathways. Oncogene. doi:10.1038/onc.2013.110