, I would like to thank my thesis advisory committee members: Dr. André Verdel
José Antonio Márquez (EMBL Grenoble) for their input, advice and discussions during my TAC meetings ,
, I would like to thank my jury members: Prof. Claire Vourc'h, Dr. Maite Huarte, Dr. Alberto Inga, Dr. Reini Fernandez de Luco and Dr
, I also want to thank Ombeline Pessey for excellent technical assistance
, Eleni Anastasakou for in vitro SHAPE of MEG3v3 and HRF of MEG3v1
, Isabel Chillon for flow cytometry, RT-PCR and optimization of functional assays
, Mani Karuppasamy for EM imaging; and all members, current and past, of the Marcia lab for helpful discussion
) for AFM data acquisition ,
) for AFM PSD analysis ,
Italy) for pGL-p21/MDM2 RE vectors ,
, Grenoble) for assistance with SV-AUC
,
, Biophysical platform) for their assistance with SEC-MALLS
Adam Round and scientists at the BioSAXS beamline BM29 (ESRF, Grenoble) for assistance with SAXS data collection and processing ,
Montserrat Soler Lopez (ESRF Grenbole) for support with DLS; the Chemical Biology Core Facility (EMBL Heidelberg) for synthetizing the SHAPE reagent 1M7 ,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston) for sharing the pCMS-d2EGFP-MEG3, pCI-control, pCI-MEG3, p53-Luc,pCMVbeta, and pCI-p14ARF vectors ,
, Yale University) for sharing RScape scripts before publication
, Dr. Mylène Peyzet (IAB Grenoble), and Dr
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