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Florent Waltz*, Ricardo D. Righetto, Lorenz Lamm, Thalia Salinas-Giegé, Ron Kelley, Xianjun Zhang, Martin Obr, Sagar Khavnekar, Abhay Kotecha, Benjamin D. Engel*. In-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Science. 387 (6740), 1296-1301  (2025). – Cover of the issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads8738

Free-access link: https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2526/full  

News: https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/mitochondria-protein-supercomplexes-structural-biology.html 

Thalia Salinas‐Giegé, Mitchell Ticoras, Florent Waltz, Nadine Coosemans, Steven Fanara, Johana Chicher, Philippe Hammann, Patrice P Hamel, Claire Remacle*. NDUFAF3 is Involved in the Assembly of the Q/P Modules of Respiratory Complex I in the Green Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Physiologia Plantarum. 177 (4), e70406 (2025).

DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ppl.70406

Philippe Van der Stappen* & Florent Waltz* (2025). TomoGuide – a cryo-electron tomography processing workflow tutorial [Workflow].

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15358525

Link: https://tomoguide.github.io/

Lorenz Lamm, Simon Zufferey, Hanyi Zhang, Ricardo D. Righetto, Florent Waltz, Wojciech Wietrzynski, Kevin A. Yamauchi, Alister Burt, Ye Liu, Antonio Martinez-Sanchez, Sebastian Ziegler, Fabian Isensee, Julia A. Schnabel, Benjamin D. Engel*, Tingying Peng*. MemBrain v2: an end-to-end tool for the analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography. BioRxiv (2024).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.05.574336

Ron Kelley, Sagar Khavnekar, Ricardo D. Righetto, Jessica Heebner, Martin Obr, Xianjun Zhang, Saikat Chakraborty, Grigory Tagiltsev, Alicia K. Michael, Sofie van Dorst, Florent Waltz, Caitlyn L. McCafferty, Lorenz Lamm, Simon Zufferey, Philippe Van der Stappen, Hugo van den Hoek, Wojciech Wietrzynski, Pavol Harar, William Wan, John AG. Briggs, Jürgen M. Plitzko, Benjamin D. Engel*, Abhay Kotecha*. Towards community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. BioRxiv (2024).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.630444

Vasileios Skaltsogiannis, Tan-Trung Nguyen, Nicolas Corre, David Pflieger, Todd Blevins, Yaser Hashem, Philippe Giege*, Florent Waltz*. Structural insights into maturation and translation of a plant mitoribosome. BioRxiv (2024).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.28.620559

Luisa Felgines, Bart Rymen, Laura M Martins, Guanghui Xu, Calvin Matteoli, Christophe Himber, Ming Zhou, Josh Eis, Ceyda Coruh, Marcel Böhrer, Lauriane Kuhn, Johana Chicher, Vijaya Pandey, Philippe Hammann, James Wohlschlegel, Florent Waltz, Julie A Law*, Todd Blevins*. CLSY docking to Pol IV requires a conserved domain critical for small RNA biogenesis and transposon silencing.  Nature Communications 15, 10298 (2024).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54268-0

Kin Pan Chung, Daniel Frieboese, Florent Waltz, Benjamin D. Engel, Ralph Bock*. Identification and characterization of the COPII vesicle‐forming GTPase Sar1 in Chlamydomonas. Plant Direct (2024).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.614

Vassilis Scaltsoyiannes, Nicolas Corre, Florent Waltz*, Philippe Giegé*. Types and functions of mitoribosome-specific ribosomal proteins across eukaryotes. International journal of molecular sciences, 23(7), 3474 (2022).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23073474

Florent Waltz & Thalia Salinas-Giegé, Robert Englmeier, Herrade Meichel,  Heddy Soufari,  Lauriane Kuhn,  Stefan Pfeffer,  Friedrich Förster,  Benjamin D. Engel,  Philippe Giegé*, Laurence Drouard*,  Yaser Hashem*. How to build a ribosome from RNA fragments in Chlamydomonas mitochondria. Nature Communications 12, 7176 (2021).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27200-z

Florent Waltz*, Philippe Giegé* and Yaser Hashem*. Purification and Cryo-electron Microscopy Analysis of Plant Mitochondrial Ribosomes. Bio-protocol 11(15): e4111 (2021).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.4111

Anthony Gobert, Yifat Quan, Mathilde Arrivé, Florent Waltz, Nathalie Da Silva, Lucile Jomat, Mathias Cohen, Isabelle Jupin* & Philippe Giegé*. Towards plant resistance to viruses using protein-only RNase P. Nature Communications 12, 1007 (2021).

DOI: https://doi.org.10.1038/s41467-021-21338-6
CNRS spotlight:  https://insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/une-enzyme-de-plante-detournee-pour-lutter-contre-des-virus

Heddy Soufari & Florent Waltz, Camila Parrot, Stephanie Durrieu, Anthony Bochler, Lauriane Kuhn, Marie Sissler*, Yaser Hashem*. Structure of the mature kinetoplastids mitoribosome and insights into its large subunit biogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 117, 29851–29861 (2020).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011301117

CNRS spotlight: https://inc.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/des-cibles-moleculaires-potentielles-decouvertes-pour-lutter-contre-des-parasites

Co-first author

Heddy Soufari, Camila Parrot, Lauriane Kuhn, Florent Waltz* & Yaser Hashem*. Specific features and assembly of the plant mitochondrial complex I revealed by cryo-EM. Nature Communications 11, 5195. (2020).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18814-w 

Florent Waltz, Nicolas Corre, Yaser Hashem* & Philippe Giegé*. Specificities of the plant mitochondria translation apparatus. Mitochondrion 53, 30–37 (2020).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mito.2020.04.008

Florent Waltz & Heddy Soufari, Anthony Bochler, Philippe Giegé* & Yaser Hashem*. Cryo-EM structure of the RNA-rich plant mitochondrial ribosome. Nature Plants 6, 377–383 (2020).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0631-5

CNRS spotlight: https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/le-ribosome-mitochondrial-de-plante-un-ribosome-bacterien-augmente

Florent Waltz* & Philippe Giegé*. Striking Diversity of Mitochondria-Specific Translation Processes across Eukaryotes. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 45, 149–162 (2020).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2019.10.004

Ayoub Bouchoucha & Florent Waltz, Géraldine Bonnard, Mathilde Arrivé, Philippe Hammann, Lauriane Kuhn, Cédric Schelcher, Hélène Zuber, Anthony Gobert & Philippe Giegé*. The protein-only RNase P PRORP1 occurs in multiple protein complexes in Arabidopsis mitochondria. The Plant Journal 100, 549–561 (2019).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14458 
Co-first author

Florent Waltz, Tan-Trung Nguyen, Mathilde Arrivé, Anthony Bochler, Johana Chicher, Philippe Hammann, Lauriane Kuhn, Martine Quadrado, Hakim Mireau* & Yaser Hashem* & Philippe Giegé*. Small is big in Arabidopsis mitochondrial ribosome. Nature Plants 5, 106–117 (2019).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0339-y              
CNRS spotlight: https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/la-petite-sous-unite-est-plus-grande-que-la-grande-dans-le-mitoribosome-darabidopsis