Dr. Hamel Post-Doc and Graduate Publications

Peer-reviewed publications (1994-2009):

• Page, M.D., Kropat, J., Hamel P., and Merchant S. (2009) Two Chlamydomonas CTR Copper Transporters with a Novel Cys-Met Motif Are Localized to the Plasma Membrane and Function in Copper Assimilation. Plant Cell, 21, 928-943. *Published after the foundation of the Hamel laboratory at OSU
• Page, M., Hamel, P., Gabilly, S., Zegzouti, H, Perea, J., Alonso, J., Ecker, J., Theg, S., Christensen, S., and Merchant, S. (2004) A homolog of the prokaryotic thiol-disulfide transporter CcdA is required for the assembly of the cytochrome b6f complex in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. J. Biol. Chem., 279, 32474-32482.
• Hamel, P., Saint-Georges, Y., Altamura N., de Pinto, B., and Dujardin, G. (2004) Redundancy in the function of mitochondrial phosphate transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Microbiol., 51, 307-317.
• Bernard, D., Gabilly, S., Dujardin, G., Merchant, S., and Hamel, P. (2003) Overlapping specificities of the cytochrome c and c1 heme lyases. J. Biol. Chem., 50, 49732-49742.
• Dreyfuss, B., Hamel, P., Nakamoto, S., and Merchant S. (2003) Functional analysis of a divergent system II protein, Ccs1, involved in c-type cytochrome biogenesis. J. Biol. Chem., 278, 2604-2613.
• Hamel, P., Dreyfuss, B., Xie, Z., Gabilly, S., and Merchant S. (2003) Essential histidine and tryptophan residues in CcsA, a system II polytopic cytochrome c biogenesis protein. J. Biol. Chem., 278, 2593-2603.
• Saint-Georges, Y., Hamel, P., Lemaire, C., and Dujardin, G. (2001) Role of positively charged transmembrane segments in the insertion and assembly of mitochondrial inner-membrane proteins. PNAS, 98, 13814-13819.
• Lemaire, C., Hamel, P., Velours, J., and Dujardin, G. (2000) Absence of the mitochondrial AAA protease Yme1p restores ATPase F₀ subunit accumulation in an oxa1 deletion mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Biol. Chem., 275, 23471-23475.
• Hamel, P., Olive, J., Pierre, Y., Wollman, F.-A., and de Vitry, C. (2000) A new subunit of cytochrome b₆ f complex undergoes reversible phosphorylation upon state transition. J. Biol. Chem., 275, 17072-17079.
• Arai, M., Hamel, P., Kanaya, E., Inaka, K., Miki, K., Kikuchi, M., and Kuwajima, K. (2000) Effect of an alternative disulfide bond on the structure, stability and folding of human lysozyme. Biochemistry, 39, 3472-3479.
• Cardazzo, B., Hamel, P., Wintz, H., Sakamoto, W., and Dujardin, G. (1998). Isolation of an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA by complementation of a yeast abc1 deletion mutant deficient in complex III respiratory activity. Gene, 221, 117-125.
• Hamel, P., Lemaire, C., Bonnefoy, N., Brivet-Chevillotte, P., and Dujardin, G. (1998) Mutations in the membrane anchor of yeast cytochrome c₁ compensate for the absence of Oxa1p and generate carbonate-extractable forms of cytochrome c₁. Genetics, 150, 601-611.
• Hamel, P., Sakamoto, W., Wintz, H., and Dujardin, G. (1997) Functional complementation of an oxa1 yeast mutation identifies an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA involved in the assembly of respiratory complexes. Plant J., 12, 1319-1327.
• Bonnefoy, N., Chalvet, F., Hamel P., Slonimski, P.P., and Dujardin, G. (1994) OXA1, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae nuclear gene whose sequence is conserved from prokaryotes to eukaryotes controls cytochrome oxidase biogenesis. J. Mol. Biol., 239, 201-212.

Published Reviews (1994-2005):

• Nakamoto, S., Hamel, P. & Merchant, S., (2000) Assembly of chloroplast cytochromes b and c. Biochimie, 82, 603-614.