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Christian JELSCH CNRS Researcher PhD 33 (0)3.83.68.48.99 33 (0)383.40.64.92

  Research Positions

Since 1996 CNRS Researcher at CRM2 Nancy France

1995-96 Postdoctoral Researcher CNRS Marseille France
Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques

1993-95 Postdoctoral Researcher Yale University New Haven CT USA
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Department

1988-93 PhD at CNRS IBMC Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale Strasbourg France

1988 Ingénieur Ecole Centrale Paris, Chemical Enginering Option.

  Research Domains

• Development of Crystallographic Software MoPro (MOlecular PROperties). MOPRO link
• Crystallography at Ultra High Resolution: Extension from Peptides to Macromolecules.
• Charge Density Analysis. Development of a Database of Atomic Charges and Electron Density Parameters
• Methodology in Crystallography.
• Protein Crystallogenesis & Structural Biology

  Publications

Jelsch, C., Guillot, B., Lagoutte, A. & Lecomte, C. (2004). J. Appl. Cryst. 38, 38-54. Advances in Proteins and Small Molecules. Charge Density Refinement Methods using software MoPro

Lecomte, C., Aubert, E., Legrand, V., Porcher, F., Pillet, S., Guillot, B. & Jelsch, C. (2005), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 220.4.373-384. Charge density research: from inorganic and molecular materials to proteins.

C. Lecomte, B. Guillot, C. Jelsch & A. Podjarny. (2004) International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.624-634. Frontier example in experimental charge density research: experimental electrostatics of proteins. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.

Nicolas Muzet, Benoit Guillot, Christian Jelsch and Claude Lecomte. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2003), 100: 8742-8747. On the Electrostatic Complementarity in a Human Aldose Reductase / NADP+ / Inhibitor Complex as Derived from First-Principles Calculations and Ultra-High Resolution Crystallography

Qun Liu, Qingqiu Huang Maikun Teng, Charles M. Weeks, Christian Jelsch, Rongguang Zhang, and Liwen Niu. (2003). J. Biol. Chem. 278: 41400 - 41408. The Crystal Structure of a Novel, Inactive, Lysine 49 PLA2 from Agkistrodon acutus Venom: an Ultrahigh Resolution, ab Initio Structure Determination.

Benoit Guillot, Nicolas Muzet, Emilio Artacho, Claude Lecomte, Christian Jelsch J. Phys. Chem. B 2003. 107. 9109-9121. Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Studies in Large Molecules : NAD+, β-Nicotinamide

Andrea Schmidt, Christian Jelsch, Peter Østergaard, Wojciech Rypniewski & Victor S. Lamzin. J. Biol. Chem. (2003). 278, 43357-43362. Trypsin Revisited: crystallography at (sub) atomic resolution and quantum chemistry revealing details of catalysis.

P. Afonine. V. Pichon-Pesme, N. Muzet, C. Jelsch1, C. Lecomte & A. Urzhumtsev. CCP4 News Letter, 2003. Modelling of bond electron density by Gaussian scatters at subatomic resolution.

Alberto Podjarny, Eduardo Howard, Andre Mitschler, Bernard Chevrier, Claude Lecomte, Benoit Guillot, Virginie Pichon-Pesme & Christian Jelsch Europhysics News (2002) Vol. 33 No. 4, 113-117. X-ray crystallography at subatomic resolution.

Kubicki M., Borowiak T., Dutkiewicz G., Souhassou M., Jelsch C. & Lecomte C. J. Phys. Chem. B. (2002). 106. 3706-3714. Experimental electron density of 1-phenyl-4-nitro-imidazole and topological analysis of C-H...O and C-H...N hydrogen bonds.

Guillot B., Lecomte C., Cousson A., Scherf C. & JelschC. ActaCryst. (2001) D57, 981-989. High-resolution neutron structure of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.

Guillot B., Viry L., Guillot R., Lecomte C. & Jelsch C. J. Applied Crystallography (2001). 34, 214-223. Refinement of proteins at subatomic resolution with MOPRO.

Guillot R., Muzet N., Dahaoui S., Lecomte C. & Jelsch C. Acta Cryst (2001). B57. 567-578. Experimental and Theoretical Charge density of dl- Alanyl-Methionine.

Jelsch C. ActaCryst. (2001). A57. 558-570. Sparsity of the normal matrix in the refinement of proteins at atomic and subatomic resolution.

Taleb M., Didierjean C., Jelsch C., Mangeot J.P. & Aubry A. Journal of Crystal Growth. (2001). 232, 250-55. Equilibrium kinetics of lysozyme crystallization under an external electric field.

Fernandez-SerraM.V., Junquera J., Jelsch C., Lecomte C. & Artacho E. Solid State Communications. (2000) 116, 395-400. Electron density in the peptide bonds of crambin

Guillot B., Jelsch C. & Lecomte C. ActaCryst. (2000). C56, 726-728. Crystal structure of the oxydized form of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide

Jelsch C., Teeter M.M. Lamzin V., Pichon-Pesme V., Blessing R.H. & Lecomte C. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. (2000) 97, 3171-3176. Accurate protein crystallography at ultra-high resolution: valence electron distribution in crambin.

Benabicha F., Pichon-Pesme V., Jelsch C., Lecomte C. & Khmou A. ActaCryst. (2000) B56, 155-165. Experimental Charge Density and Electrostatic Potential of Glycyl-L-Threonine Dihydrate

Housset D., Benabicha F., Pichon-Pesme V., Jelsch C., Maierhofer A., David S., Fontecilla-Camps J.C. & Lecomte C. ActaCryst. (2000). D56, 151-160. Towards the charge density of proteins: a scorpion toxin at 0.96 Å resolution as a first test case.

Aubry A., Taleb M., Mangeot J.P., Didierjean C., Jelsch C. & Capelle B. Biochimie FEBS, (1999), 6, s148. Crystallization of biological macromolecules under an external electric field.

Dahaoui S., Jelsch C., Howard J.A.K. & Lecomte C. ActaCryst. (1999). B55, 226-230. Charge density study of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine ethyl ester monohydrate derived from CCD area detector data.

Taleb M., Didierjean C., Jelsch C., Mangeot J.P., Capelle B. & Aubry A. J. Crystal Growth. (1999) 200.575-582. Crystallization of proteins under an external electric field.

Jelsch C. & Didierjean C. Acta Cryst. (1999) C55, 1538-1540. Crystal structure of the oxydized form of glutathione.

Longhi S., Nicolas A., Jelsch C. & Cambillau C., Protein Engineering in Industrial Biotechnology, Editor/ Lilia Alberghina, Harwoo Academics Publishers, Amsterdam, pp 75-114. (1999)

Jelsch C., Pichon-Pesme V. & Lecomte C. & Aubry A. ActaCryst. (1998). D54, 1306-1318. Transferability of multipole charge density parameters : Application to very high resolution oligopeptide and protein structures.

Jelsch C., Longhi S., Cambillau C. Proteins, Struct. Funct.& Genet.(1998) 31: 320-333. Packing forces in 9 crystal forms of cutinase.

Spinelli S., Ploux O., Anguille C., Marquet A., Jelsch C., Cambillau C. & Martinez C. ActaCryst. (1996). D52, 866-868. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray study of the 8-amino-7-oxopelargonate Synthase from Bacillus sphaericus.

Jelsch C., Mourey L., Masson J.M. & Samama J.P., Proteins: structure, function & genetics. (1993), 16, 364-383. Crystal structure of Escherichia coli TEM1 beta-lactamase at 1.8 Å.

Jelsch C., Lenfant F., Masson J.M. & Samama J.P. FEBS Letters, (1992), 299, 135-142. Beta-lactamase TEM1 of E. coli: crystal structure determination at 2.5 Å.

Jelsch C., Lenfant F., Masson J.M. & Samama J.P. Journal of Molecular Biology, (1992), 223, 377-380. Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic data on Escherichia coli TEM1 beta-lactamase.