Publications by Gerardo Turcatti

Automated fast label-free quantification of cardiomyocyte dynamics with raw holograms for cardiotoxicity screening

Traditional cell analysis approaches based on quantitative phase imaging (QPI) necessitate a reconstruction stage, which utilizes digital holography. However, phase retrieval processing can be complicated and time-consuming since it needs numerical reconst ...

Optica Publishing Group2025

An all-in-one pipeline for the in vitro discovery and in vivo testing of Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission blocking drugs

Gerardo Turcatti, Marc Chambon

Elimination of malaria will require new drugs with potent activity against Plasmodium falciparum mature stage V gametocytes, the only stages infective to the mosquito vector. The identification and comprehensive validation of molecules active against these ...

2025

Identification of glutathione transferase (GST P1) inhibitors via a high-throughput screening assay and implications as alternative treatment options for breast cancers

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gerardo Turcatti, Marc Chambon, Jonathan Patrice Vesin

Glutathione S-transferase P1-1 (GST P1) is an important drug target as it is implicated in drug resistance. GST P1-1 inhibitors are typically non-productive analogues of glutathione which covers broad chemical space; hence it is likely that several clinica ...

Public Library of Science (PLoS)2025

Preclinical spheroid models identify BMX as a therapeutic target for metastatic MYCN nonamplified neuroblastoma

Gerardo Turcatti, Fabien Kuttler

The development of targeted therapies offers new hope for patients affected by incurable cancer. However, multiple challenges persist, notably in controlling tumor cell plasticity in patients with refractory and metastatic illness. Neuroblastoma (NB) is an ...

AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC2024

Repurposing drug screen of patient-derived malignant pleural mesothelioma cells reveals potential anti-cancer activity

Gerardo Turcatti, Marc Chambon

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

Phosphoproteomics and morphology of stored human red blood cells treated by protein tyrosine phosphatases inhibitor

Gerardo Turcatti, Benjamin Rappaz, Romain Hamelin, Florence Armand

The process of protein phosphorylation is involved in numerous cell functions. In particular, phosphotyrosine (pY) has been reported to play a role in red blood cell (RBC) functions, including the cytoskeleton organization. During their storage before tran ...

2023

Automated Dual-Mode Cell Monitoring To Simultaneously Explore Calcium Dynamics and Contraction-Relaxation Kinetics within Drug-Treated Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes

Gerardo Turcatti, Benjamin Rappaz, Bokyoung Kim, Pierre Marquet

This manuscript proposes a new dual-mode cell imaging system for studying the relationships between calcium dynamics and the contractility process of cardiomyocytes derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells. Practically, this dual-mode cell imaging ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

In vitro-transfusional model for red-blood-cell study: the advantage of lowering hematocrit

Gerardo Turcatti, Manon Sandra Bardyn, David Crettaz, Michel Prudent

Background - Thequalityof red blood cells (RBCs) stored in red cell concentrates (RCCs) is influenced by processing, storage and donor characteristics, and can have a clinical impact on transfused patients. To evaluate RBC properties and their potential im ...

Simtipro Srl2023

Synthesis and direct assay of large macrocycle diversities by combinatorial late-stage modification at picomole scale

Gerardo Turcatti, Christian Heinis, Julien Bortoli Chapalay, Jonathan Patrice Vesin, Alessandro Angelini, Manuel Leonardo Merz, Sevan Mleh Habeshian, Mischa Schüttel, Ganesh Kumar Mothukuri, Gontran Sangouard

Macrocycles have excellent potential as therapeutics due to their ability to bind challenging targets. However, generating macrocycles against new targets is hindered by a lack of large macrocycle libraries for high-throughput screening. To overcome this, ...

Nature Research2022

High-content, arrayed compound screens with rhinovirus, influenza A virus and herpes simplex virus infections

Gerardo Turcatti, Fabien Kuttler

Viruses are genetically and structurally diverse, and outnumber cells by orders of magnitude. They can cause acute and chronic infections, suppress, or exacerbate immunity, or dysregulate survival and growth of cells. To identify chemical agents with pro- ...

2022