Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

TL;DR: Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance the understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella.

TL;DR: A systematic analysis of the targeting of organellar aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana indicates that extensive exchange of aaRSs has occurred during evolution and that many are now shared between two or even three compartments.

TL;DR: A simple method is described to isolate DNA of high molecular weight from a wide variety of plant materials, such as trees, herbaceous plants, cell suspension cultures, calli, seeds, dried embryos, ferns and lichens, providing highly purified DNA suitable for restriction endonuclease analyses but also for PCR experiments, RLFP analyses, or detection of adducts.

TL;DR: These studies show that the import systems of different species exhibit some unique features, suggesting that more than one mechanism might exist to import tRNAs.

TL;DR: All mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and many tRNAs are imported from the cytosol into the mitochondria in eukaryotic cells and their origin and their import into the organelle have been studied in evolutionary distinct organisms.