Jean-Louis BANERES


Jean-Louis BANERES is Research Director at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and head of the Molecular Pharmacology Department at the Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), in Montpellier.
He is interested in both membrane protein biochemistry and G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) functioning. He has developed for many years different approaches for producing purified receptors stabilized in their native conformation in vitro and has been using these purified receptor to answer some basic question on the way GPCRs function, in particular in the context of dimeric complexes.
Currently, he is interested into the way signalling through the ghrelin receptor is controlled, at the molecular level, by pharmacologically relevant ligand and dimerization.



Address:

Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM)
Equipe de Pharmacologie Moléculaire des RCPGs
UMR 5247 CNRS - Universités Montpellier I & II
Faculté de Pharmacie
15 Av. Ch. Flahault, BP 14491
F-34093 Montpellier Cedex 5
Mail : jean-louis.baneres(at)univ-montp1.fr
Lab Web page: www.ibmm.univ-montp1.fr

Selected Articles:

  1. Structure of a GPCR ligand in its receptor-bound state: leukotriene B4 adopts a highly constrained conformation when associated to human BLT2. Catoire LJ, Damian M, Giusti F, Martin A, van Heijenoort C, Popot JL, Guittet E, Banères JL J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Jul 7;132(26):9049-57.
  2. Leukotriene BLT2 receptor monomers activate the G(i2) GTP-binding protein more efficiently than dimers. Arcemisbéhère L, et al. J Biol Chem. 2010 Feb 26;285(9):6337-47.
  3. G protein activation by the leukotriene B4 receptor dimer. Evidence for an absence of trans-activation. Damian M, Mary S, Martin A, Pin JP, Banères JL J Biol Chem. 2008 Jul 25;283(30):21084-92.
  4. Asymmetric conformational changes in a GPCR dimer controlled by G-proteins. Damian M, Martin A, Mesnier D, Pin JP, Banères JL EMBO J. 2006 Dec13;25(24):5693-702.

Selected Reviews:

  1. Amphipols from A to Z. Popot JL, et al., Annu Rev Biophys. 2011 Jun 9;40:379-408.
  2. New advances in production and functional folding of G-protein-coupled receptors. Banères JL, Popot JL, Mouillac B. Trends Biotechnol. 2011 Jul;29(7):314-22.