Publications de Rizlan Bernier-Latmani

Speciation-dependent molecular mechanism of electron transfer from the c-type cytochrome MtrC to U(VI)-ligand complexes

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Luciano Andres Abriata, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Margaux Camille Andréa Molinas

Members of the Shewanella genus transfer electrons to metal and actinide electron acceptors such as hexavalent uranium, U(VI), via c-type cytochromes. The intracellular mechanism of electron transfer is well studied but the delivery of electrons to externa ...

2025

Biosensor-aided isolation of anaerobic arsenic-methylating bacteria from soil

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Hugo Sallet

Microbial methylation of arsenic impacts both the toxicity and fate of this environmental contaminant, and is an important component of its biogeochemical cycle. This transformation occurs in flooded paddy fields where soil microorganisms can produce dimet ...

Oxford University Press2025

High-throughput cultivation and isolation of environmental anaerobes using selectively permeable hydrogel capsules

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Hugo Sallet

Over the past two decades, metagenomics has greatly expanded our understanding of microbial phylogenetic and metabolic diversity. However, most microbial taxa remain uncultured, hindering research and biotechnological applications. Isolating environmental ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2025

Bile acid 7α-dehydroxylating bacteria accelerate injury-induced mucosal healing in the colon

Kristina Schoonjans, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Alessia Perino, Hadrien Charles Edouard Demagny, Eduard Vico Oton, Colin Volet, Antoine Jalil

Host-microbiome communication is frequently perturbed in gut pathologies due to microbiome dysbiosis, leading to altered production of bacterial metabolites. Among these, 7 alpha-dehydroxylated bile acids are notably diminished in inflammatory bowel diseas ...

SPRINGERNATURE2025

The isotopic signature of U(V) during bacterial reduction

Marinella Mazzanti, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Margaux Camille Andréa Molinas, Radmila Faizova, Ashley Richards Brown

The two-step electron transfer during bacterial reduction of UVI to UIV is typically accompanied by mass-independent fractionation of the 238U and 235U isotopes, whereby the heavy isotope accumulates in the reduced product. However, the role of the UV inte ...

2024

Reducing conditions influence U(IV) accumulation in sediments during in-situ bioremediation

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Daniel Scott Alessi, Vincent Noel

2024

Growth substrate limitation enhances anaerobic arsenic methylation by Paraclostridium bifermentans strain EML

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Hugo Sallet, Jiangtao Qiao

Microbial arsenic methylation is established as a detoxification process under aerobic conditions (converting arsenite to monomethylated arsenate) but is proposed to be a microbial warfare strategy under anoxic conditions due to the toxicity of its main pr ...

American Society for Microbiology2024

BaiJ and BaiB are key enzymes in the chenodeoxycholic acid 7a-dehydroxylation pathway in the gut microbe Clostridium scindens ATCC 35704

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Laure Menin, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Eduard Vico Oton, Théo Nass, Colin Volet, Solenne Anne Marie Marion

Bile acid transformation is a common gut microbiome activity that produces secondary bile acids, some of which are important for human health. One such process, 7α-dehydroxylation, converts the primary bile acids, cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid, to ...

2024

Strain-dependent induction of primary bile acid 7-dehydroxylation by cholic acid

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Eduard Vico Oton, Colin Volet

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Pentavalent U reactivity impacts U isotopic fractionation during reduction by magnetite

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Barbora Bártová, Luca Loreggian, Zezhen Pan

Meaningful interpretation of U isotope measurements relies on unraveling the impact of reduction mechanisms on the isotopic fractionation. Here, the isotope fractionation of hexavalent U [U(VI)] was investigated during its reductive mineralization by magne ...

2024