Publications by Thibaud Edouard Alistair von Erlach

Computational characterisation of the selectivity and binding mode of mono- and binuclear transition metal based anticancer compounds

The rising resistance and the severe side effects associated with classical anticancer drugs such as cisplatin or mercaptopurines has triggered the development of novel antitumourous agents based on transition metal (e.g. ruthenium, osmium, and gold) organ ...

EPFL2020

Crosslinking Allosteric Sites on the Nucleosome

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ursula Röthlisberger, Lucinda Kate Batchelor, Thibaud Edouard Alistair von Erlach

Targeting defined histone protein sites in chromatin is an emerging therapeutic approach that can potentially be enhanced by allosteric effects within the nucleosome. Here we characterized a novel hetero-bimetallic compound with a design based on a nucleos ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Fighting Cancer with Transition Metal Complexes: From Naked DNA to Protein and Chromatin Targeting Strategies

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ursula Röthlisberger, Tina Riedel, Giulia Palermo, Thibaud Edouard Alistair von Erlach

Many transition metal complexes have unique physicochemical properties that can be efficiently exploited in medicinal chemistry for cancer treatment. Traditionally, double-stranded DNA has been assumed to be the main binding target; however, recent studies ...

2016

An Organometallic Compound which Exhibits a DNA Topology-Dependent One-Stranded Intercalation Mode

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ursula Röthlisberger, Giulia Palermo, Thibaud Edouard Alistair von Erlach, Benjamin Samuel Murray

Understanding how small molecules interact with DNA is essential since it underlies a multitude of pathological conditions and therapeutic interventions. Many different intercalator compounds have been studied because of their activity as mutagens or drugs ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2016

Analysis of the accessibility of CLIP bound sites reveals that nucleation of the miRNA:mRNA pairing occurs preferentially at the 3'-end of the seed match

Jiri Vanicek, Ray Marcel Marin Florez, Thibaud Edouard Alistair von Erlach, Franziska Voellmy

To find out whether the AGO-miRNA complex is more sensitive to the accessibility of a particular region inside the seed match, we analyze in detail the accessibility of a wide set of miRNA binding sites validated by PAR-CLIP and HITS-CLIP experiments. Our ...

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Publications Dept2012