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La surface des organelles est contrôlée par différentes protéines. Les transporteurs de lipides ajustent la composition des organelles dans les sites de contact membranaire. Les périlipines couvrent la surface des gouttelettes lipidiques grâce à leurs longues hélices amphipathiques. Les manteaux protéiques déforment les membranes pour produire des vésicules de transport. Les golgines et les protéines de la famille TPD52 capturent les vésicules de transport. Bien que très différents, ces mécanismes dépendent fortement de la physico-chimie des surfaces lipidiques, notamment de leur composition, courbure ou tension.

Nous étudions ces mécanismes en utilisant des approches moléculaires, cellulaires et in silico. Grâce à des mesures spécifiques basées sur la fluorescence et la diffusion de la lumière, nous suivons des réactions élémentaires telles que le cycle d’assemblage des manteaux protéiques, l’attachement de liposomes par les golgines et le transfert de lipides dans des sites de contact membranaires. Par microscopie optique ou électronique, nous visualisons ces événements dans des cellules et dans des systèmes reconstitués. La dynamique moléculaire nous permet de décrire les interactions entre protéines et membranes lipidiques à une échelle atomique.

Collaborations récentes
  • Sandra Lacas-Gervais Université Côte d’Azur, Centre commun de microscopie appliquée
  • Stéphanie Miserey Institut Curie, Paris : TPD54 molecular and cellular function
  • Dominique Langin, Université de Toulouse : gouttelette uniloculaire géante des adipocytes
  • Alenka Copic, CRBM, Montpellier : gouttelettes lipidiques et protéines amphipatiques
  • Mikael Ryden, Institut Karolinska, Suède : gouttelette uniloculaire géante des adipocytes
  • Romeo Ricci IGBMC Strasbourg : PI4P and NLRP3 inflammasome
  • Daniel Levy, Institut Curie, Paris : Molecular architecture of membrane contact sites
  • Fanny Roussi, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette :  OSBP targeting by natural compounds
Résumé grand public

Cholesterol, omega 3, omega 6 sont des mots familiers. Ils désignent des lipides qui sont les briques élémentaires des membranes cellulaires. Celles ci, comme les murs d’un appartement, enveloppent la cellule ainsi que ses compartiments internes. Or, ces membranes sont sans cesse remodelées chimiquement et physiquement pour permettre des échanges entre les différentes régions de la cellule.
Words like cholesterol, omega-3 or omega-6 are familiar to most people. They refer to lipids (fat) that are, among others, building blocks of cell membranes. Like the walls of an apartment, membranes envelop the cell and its internal compartments. They are constantly being chemically and physically remodeled to allow exchanges between the different regions of the cell.

Notre équipe étudie certaines des machineries protéiques impliquées dans ces voies de transport ainsi que l’influence de la composition lipidique des membranes sur ces voies. Ces études permettent une meilleure compréhension des avantages et désavantages apportés par les différents lipides (omega-6, omega-3, cholest2rol) que notre corps obtient par la nourriture (beurre, huiles) ou synthétise.
Our team is studying some of the protein machineries involved in transport pathways across and between membranes, as well as the influence that lipid composition of such membranes has on them. We want to understand the advantages of incorporating and managing the different known lipids within body membranes, whether they are obtained from food (namely butter and oils) or produced by our own cells (synthesis).

Voici quelques unes de nos découvertes :
Here are a few of our findings:

Des protéines géomètres

Certaines membranes sont plates, d’autres courbées. Nous avons montré que des protéines sont capables de mesurer la courbure des membranes de façon très précise. Telle protéine parfaitement soluble face à une membrane de rayon de 60 nm se colle fortement à une membrane de rayon 30 nm.
La figure suivante montre un exemple du rôle d’un tel mécanisme. Ici, une longue protéine ressemblant à une corde moléculaire arrime une petite vésicule à une membrane plate grâce à un détecteur de courbure appelé ALPS.
Geometric proteins

Membranes can be flat or curved. We have shown that some proteins are able to measure the curvature of membranes very precisely. A protein can remain in solution when in the presence of vesicles (liposomes) with a radius of 60 nm, but stick strongly to their membrane if the radius is 30 nm.
The following figure shows an example of the role of such mechanism. Here, a long protein resembling a molecular-sized string docks a small vesicle to a flat membrane via its own curvature sensor called ALPS.
Une monnaie chimique pour le transport de lipides dans la cellule

Certaines protéines ont la capacité d’extraire spécifiquement des lipides et de les transporter d’une membrane à une autre. Mais comment ce déplacement est-il dirigé et quelle est l’énergie sous-jacente ?
Nous avons montré que certains transporteurs du cholestérol échangent celui ci contre un autre lipide, le PI(4)P qui sera ensuite brûlé. Le PI(4)P apparaît comme la monnaie d’échange de plusieurs réactions de transfert lipidique.
A chemical currency for lipid transport in the cell

Some proteins have the ability to specifically extract lipids and transport them from one membrane to another. But how is this movement directed and what is the underlying energy?
We have shown that some cholesterol transporters exchange cholesterol for another lipid, PI(4)P, which is then burned (catabolized). PI(4)P appears to be the currency of several lipid transfer reactions
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Les lipides polyunsaturés facilitent la déformation des membranes
Les omégas 3 forment une classe de lipides très populaires, car bénéfiques pour la santé. Nous avons montré que, incorporés dans des membranes cellulaires ou artificielles, ces lipides facilitent la déformation des membranes et leur fission pour donner naissance à des vésicules de transport. Nous proposons que ce mécanisme soit à la base de l’enrichissement extraordinaire en oméga 3 observé dans la terminaison des neurones. Cet enrichissement contribuerait à la formation ultra rapide de vésicules qui, en libérant leurs neurotransmetteurs, permettent la transmission synaptique.
Polyunsaturated fats facilitate membrane deformation

Omega-3s are a very popular class of lipids because of their health benefits. We have shown that, when incorporated into cellular or artificial membranes, these lipids facilitate membrane deformation and fission into transport vesicles. We propose that this mechanism is at the basis of the extraordinary enrichment in omega-3 observed in neurons’ terminals (synapses). This enrichment would contribute to the ultra-rapid formation of vesicles which, by releasing their neurotransmitters, allow synaptic transmission.

Publications

2025
Sebinelli HG, Syska C, Razmazma H, Albanèse V, Dias Araújo AR, Hilpert C, Montigny C, Jaxel C, Tchamba M, Belingar K, D’Ambrosio JM, Monticelli L, Lenoir G, Čopič A, Ist2 is a phospholipid scramblase that links lipid transport at the ER to organelle homeostasis, .
2025
Edyta Glogowska, Gregor P. Jose, Ana Rita Dias Araújo, Malika Arhatte, Raphael Divita, Coraline Borowczyk, Thibault Barouillet, Baile Wang, Frédéric Brau, Rémi Peyronnet, Amanda Patel, Bruno Mesmin, Takeshi Harayama, Bruno Antonny, Aimin Xu, Laurent Yvan-Charvet, Eric Honoré, Potentiation of macrophage Piezo1 by atherogenic 7-ketocholesterol, .
2025
Dias Araújo AR, Buvry O, Antonny B, Debayle D, Separation of polar and neutral lipids from mammalian cell lines by high-performance thin-layer chromatography., J Chromatogr A 2025 Jan; 1741(): 465610.
2024
Dias Araújo AR, Bello AA, Bigay J, Franckhauser C, Gautier R, Cazareth J, Kovács D, Brau F, Fuggetta N, Čopič A, Antonny B, Surface tension-driven sorting of human perilipins on lipid droplets., J Cell Biol 2024 Dec; 223(12): .
2024
Ana Rita Dias Araújo, Abdoul Akim Bello, Joëlle Bigay, Céline Franckhauser, Romain Gautier, Julie Cazareth, Dávid Kovács, Frédéric Brau, Nicolas Fuggetta, Alenka Čopič, Bruno Antonny, Surface tension-driven sorting of human perilipins on lipid droplets., J Cell Biol (2024) 223 (12): e202403064.
2023
Harayama T, Antonny B, Beyond Fluidity: The Role of Lipid Unsaturation in Membrane Function., Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2023 Jul; 15(7): .
2023
Mélody Subra, Manuela Dezi, Joëlle Bigay, Sandra Lacas-Gervais, Aurélie Di Cicco, Ana Rita Dias Araújo, Sophie Abélanet, Lucile Fleuriot, Delphine Debayle, Romain Gautier, Amanda Patel, Fanny Roussi, Bruno Antonny, Daniel Lévy, Bruno Mesmin, VAP-A intrinsically disordered regions enable versatile tethering at membrane contact sites., Developmental Cell, 2023, 58 (2), pp.121-138.e9. ⟨10.1016/j.devcel.2022.12.010⟩.
2023
Subra M, Antonny B, Mesmin B, New insights into the OSBP‒VAP cycle., Curr Opin Cell Biol 2023 Jun; 82(): 102172.
2022
Morais CM, Cardoso AM, Araújo ARD, Reis A, Domingues P, Domingues MRM, de Lima MCP, Jurado AS, Stearoyl CoA Desaturase-1 Silencing in Glioblastoma Cells: Phospholipid Remodeling and Cytotoxicity Enhanced upon Autophagy Inhibition., Int J Mol Sci 2022 Oct; 23(21): .
2022
Reynaud A, Magdeleine M, Patel A, Gay AS, Debayle D, Abelanet S, Antonny B, Tumor protein D54 binds intracellular nanovesicles via an extended amphipathic region., J Biol Chem 2022 Jul; 298(7): 102136.
2022
Tsai MC, Fleuriot L, Janel S, Gonzalez-Rodriguez D, Morel C, Mettouchi A, Debayle D, Dallongeville S, Olivo-Marin JC, Antonny B, Lafont F, Lemichez E, Barelli H, DHA-containing phospholipids control membrane fusion and transcellular tunnel dynamics., J Cell Sci 2022 Mar; 135(5): .
2021
Jamecna D, Antonny B, Intrinsically disordered protein regions at membrane contact sites., Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2021 Nov; 1866(11): 159020.
2021
Miserey-Lenkei S, Trajkovic K, D'Ambrosio JM, Patel AJ, Čopič A, Mathur P, Schauer K, Goud B, Albanèse V, Gautier R, Subra M, Kovacs D, Barelli H, Antonny B, A comprehensive library of fluorescent constructs of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and their initial characterisation in different cell types., Biol Cell 2021 Jul; 113(7): 311-328.
2021
de la Mora E, Dezi M, Di Cicco A, Bigay J, Gautier R, Manzi J, Polidori J, Castaño-Díez D, Mesmin B, Antonny B, Lévy D, Nanoscale architecture of a VAP-A-OSBP tethering complex at membrane contact sites., Nat Commun 2021 Jun; 12(1): 3459.
2021
Giménez-Andrés M, Emeršič T, Antoine-Bally S, D'Ambrosio JM, Antonny B, Derganc J, Čopič A, Exceptional stability of a perilipin on lipid droplets depends on its polar residues, suggesting multimeric assembly., Elife 2021 Apr; 10(): .
2021
Meng-Chen Tsai, Lucile Fleuriot, Sébastien Janel, David Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Camille Morel, Amel Mettouchi, Delphine Debayle, Stéphane Dallongeville, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Bruno Antonny, Frank Lafont, Emmanuel Lemichez, Hélène Barelli, Docosahexaenoic fatty acid-containing phospholipids affect plasma membrane susceptibility to disruption by bacterial toxin-induced macroapertures, 2021.
2020
Barelli H, Camonis J, de Gunzburg J, Goud B, Moreau-Gachelin F, Wittinghofer A, Zahraoui A, [Pierre Chardin, a pioneer in the discovery of the genes and proteins of the Ras superfamily]., Med Sci (Paris) 2020 Apr; 36(4): 394-398.
2020
Péresse T, Kovacs D, Subra M, Bigay J, Tsai MC, Polidori J, Gautier R, Desrat S, Fleuriot L, Debayle D, Litaudon M, Pham VC, Bignon J, Antonny B, Roussi F, Mesmin B, Molecular and cellular dissection of the oxysterol-binding protein cycle through a fluorescent inhibitor., J Biol Chem 2020 Mar; 295(13): 4277-4288.
2020
Tiberti ML, Antonny B, Gautier R, The transbilayer distribution of polyunsaturated phospholipids determines their facilitating effect on membrane deformation., Soft Matter 2020 Feb; 16(7): 1722-1730.
2019
Jamecna D, Polidori J, Mesmin B, Dezi M, Levy D, Bigay J, Antonny B, An Intrinsically Disordered Region in OSBP Acts as an Entropic Barrier to Control Protein Dynamics and Orientation at Membrane Contact Sites., Dev Cell 2019 Apr; 49(2): 220-234.e8.
2019
Jean Bastin, Fatima Djouadi, Anomalies de la beta-oxydation mitochondriale des acides gras Maladies rares et maladies communes Dysfunctions of Mitochondrial Fatty Acid β-oxidation in Rare and Common Diseases, Médecine/Sciences, 2019, 35, pp.779-86. ⟨10.1051/medsci/2019156⟩.
2019
Aurélie Bertin, Alexis Lomakin, Meeting report -Building the Cell 2018, Journal of Cell Science, 2019, ⟨10.1242/jcs.229765⟩.
2018
Cornell R, Antonny B, CCTα Commands Phospholipid Homeostasis from the Nucleus., Dev Cell 2018 May; 45(4): 419-420.
2018
Gautier R, Bacle A, Tiberti ML, Fuchs PF, Vanni S, Antonny B, PackMem: A Versatile Tool to Compute and Visualize Interfacial Packing Defects in Lipid Bilayers., Biophys J 2018 Aug; 115(3): 436-444.
2018
Giménez-Andrés M, Čopič A, Antonny B, The Many Faces of Amphipathic Helices., Biomolecules 2018 Jul; 8(3): .
2018
Antonny B, Bigay J, Mesmin B, The Oxysterol-Binding Protein Cycle: Burning Off PI(4)P to Transport Cholesterol., Annu Rev Biochem 2018 Jun; 87(): 809-837.
2018
Čopič A, Antoine-Bally S, Giménez-Andrés M, La Torre Garay C, Antonny B, Manni MM, Pagnotta S, Guihot J, Jackson CL, A giant amphipathic helix from a perilipin that is adapted for coating lipid droplets., Nat Commun 2018 Apr; 9(1): 1332.
2018
Manni MM, Tiberti ML, Pagnotta S, Barelli H, Gautier R, Antonny B, Acyl chain asymmetry and polyunsaturation of brain phospholipids facilitate membrane vesiculation without leakage., Elife 2018 Mar; 7(): .
2018
Marco Lorenzi, Hélène Barelli, Blood Levels of Omega 3 and 6 across the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2018, Chicago, United States.
2018
Araújo ARD, Melo T, Maciel EA, Pereira C, Morais CM, Santinha DR, Tavares JF, Oliveira H, Jurado AS, Costa V, Domingues P, Domingues MRM, Santos MAS, Errors in protein synthesis increase the level of saturated fatty acids and affect the overall lipid profiles of yeast., PLoS One 2018 ; 13(8): e0202402.
2017
Mesmin B, Bigay J, Polidori J, Jamecna D, Lacas-Gervais S, Antonny B, Sterol transfer, PI4P consumption, and control of membrane lipid order by endogenous OSBP., EMBO J 2017 Nov; 36(21): 3156-3174.
2017
Rabouille C, Antonny B, Editorial overview: Cell organelles., Curr Opin Cell Biol 2017 Aug; 47(): iv-vi.
2016
Mesmin B, Antonny B, The counterflow transport of sterols and PI4P., Biochim Biophys Acta 2016 Aug; 1861(8 Pt B): 940-951.
2016
Barelli H, Antonny B, Lipid unsaturation and organelle dynamics., Curr Opin Cell Biol 2016 Aug; 41(): 25-32.
2016
Magdeleine M, Gautier R, Gounon P, Barelli H, Vanni S, Antonny B, A filter at the entrance of the Golgi that selects vesicles according to size and bulk lipid composition., Elife 2016 Jul; 5(): .
2015
Antonny B, Vanni S, Shindou H, Ferreira T, From zero to six double bonds: phospholipid unsaturation and organelle function., Trends Cell Biol 2015 Jul; 25(7): 427-36.
2015
Doucet CM, Esmery N, de Saint-Jean M, Antonny B, Membrane Curvature Sensing by Amphipathic Helices Is Modulated by the Surrounding Protein Backbone., PLoS One 2015 ; 10(9): e0137965.
2014
Vanni S, Hirose H, Barelli H, Antonny B, Gautier R, A sub-nanometre view of how membrane curvature and composition modulate lipid packing and protein recruitment., Nat Commun 2014 Sep; 5(): 4916.
2014
Pinot M, Vanni S, Pagnotta S, Lacas-Gervais S, Payet LA, Ferreira T, Gautier R, Goud B, Antonny B, Barelli H, Lipid cell biology. Polyunsaturated phospholipids facilitate membrane deformation and fission by endocytic proteins., Science 2014 Aug; 345(6197): 693-7.
2014
Abderrahmane Habbal, Hélène Barelli, Grégoire Malandain, Assessing the ability of the 2D Fisher-KPP equation to model cell-sheet wound closure, Mathematical Biosciences, 2014, 252, pp.45-59.
2014
Habbal A, Barelli H, Malandain G, Assessing the ability of the 2D Fisher-KPP equation to model cell-sheet wound closure., Math Biosci 2014 Jun; 252(): 45-59.
2014
Horchani H, de Saint-Jean M, Barelli H, Antonny B, Interaction of the Spo20 membrane-sensor motif with phosphatidic acid and other anionic lipids, and influence of the membrane environment., PLoS One 2014 ; 9(11): e113484.
2013
Hélène Barelli, M. Pinot, Thierry Ferreira, Grégoire Malandain, Xavier Descombes, Bruno Goud, Bruno Antonny, Mechanical properties of the plasma membrane of micropatterned cells incubated with mono or polyunsaturated fatty acids, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting, Dec 2013, New Orleans, United States.
2013
Abderrahmane Habbal, Hélène Barelli, Grégoire Malandain, Modeling cell sheet wound closure, Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS), Wilfrid Laurier University with AIMS and SIAM, Aug 2013, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
2012
Abderrahmane Habbal, Hélène Barelli, Grégoire Malandain, Modeling Cell-Sheets Wound Closure, 3rd International Conference of the Moroccan Society of Applied Mathematics (SM2A), Sep 2012, Marrakesh, Morocco.
2011
Stalder D, Barelli H, Gautier R, Macia E, Jackson CL, Antonny B, Kinetic studies of the Arf activator Arno on model membranes in the presence of Arf effectors suggest control by a positive feedback loop., J Biol Chem 2011 Feb; 286(5): 3873-83.
2011
Antonny B, Mechanisms of membrane curvature sensing., Annu Rev Biochem 2011 ; 80(): 101-23.
2010
Drin G, Antonny B, Amphipathic helices and membrane curvature., FEBS Lett 2010 May; 584(9): 1840-7.
2009
Drin G, Bigay J, Antonny B, [Regulation of vesicular transport by membrane curvature]., Med Sci (Paris) 2009 May; 25(5): 483-8.
2009
Chabre M, Deterre P, Antonny B, The apparent cooperativity of some GPCRs does not necessarily imply dimerization., Trends Pharmacol Sci 2009 Apr; 30(4): 182-7.
2009
Barelli H, Antonny B, Cell biology: Detached membrane bending., Nature 2009 Mar; 458(7235): 159-60.
2008
Gautier R, Douguet D, Antonny B, Drin G, HELIQUEST: a web server to screen sequences with specific alpha-helical properties., Bioinformatics 2008 Sep; 24(18): 2101-2.
2008
Drin G, Morello V, Casella JF, Gounon P, Antonny B, Asymmetric tethering of flat and curved lipid membranes by a golgin., Science 2008 May; 320(5876): 670-3.
2007
Julien Viaud, Mahel Zeghouf, Hélène Barelli, Jean-Christophe Zeeh, André Padilla, Bernard Guibert, Pierre Chardin, Catherine A Royer, Jacqueline Cherfils, Alain Chavanieu, Structure-based discovery of an inhibitor of Arf activation by Sec7 domains through targeting of protein-protein complexes., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007, 104 (25), pp.10370-5. ⟨10.1073/pnas.0700773104⟩.
2007
Viaud J, Zeghouf M, Barelli H, Zeeh JC, Padilla A, Guibert B, Chardin P, Royer CA, Cherfils J, Chavanieu A, Structure-based discovery of an inhibitor of Arf activation by Sec7 domains through targeting of protein-protein complexes., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 Jun; 104(25): 10370-5.
2006
Antonny B, Membrane deformation by protein coats., Curr Opin Cell Biol 2006 Aug; 18(4): 386-94.
2005
Antonny B, Bigay J, Casella JF, Drin G, Mesmin B, Gounon P, Membrane curvature and the control of GTP hydrolysis in Arf1 during COPI vesicle formation., Biochem Soc Trans 2005 Aug; 33(Pt 4): 619-22.
2003
Bigay J, Gounon P, Robineau S, Antonny B, Lipid packing sensed by ArfGAP1 couples COPI coat disassembly to membrane bilayer curvature., Nature 2003 Dec; 426(6966): 563-6.
2003
Antonny B, Gounon P, Schekman R, Orci L, Self-assembly of minimal COPII cages., EMBO Rep 2003 Apr; 4(4): 419-24.
2001
Antonny B, Schekman R, ER export: public transportation by the COPII coach., Curr Opin Cell Biol 2001 Aug; 13(4): 438-43.
2000
Agnès Petit-Paitel, Agnès Petit, Hélène Barelli, Philippe Morain, Frédéric Checler, Novel proline endopeptidase inhibitors do not modify Aβ40/42 formation and degradation by human cells expressing wild-type and Swedish mutated β-amyloid precursor protein, British Journal of Pharmacology, 2000, 130 (7), pp.1613-1617. ⟨10.1038/sj.bjp.0703440⟩.
2000
Nadine Mestre-Francés, Emeline Keller, Alphonse Calenda, Hélène Barelli, Frédéric Checler, Noëlle Bons, Immunohistochemical Analysis of Cerebral Cortical and Vascular Lesions in the Primate Microcebus murinus Reveal Distinct Amyloid β1–42 and β1–40 Immunoreactivity Profiles, Neurobiology of Disease, 2000, 7 (1), pp.1-8. ⟨10.1006/nbdi.1999.0270⟩.
1999
Agnès Petit-Paitel, Hélène Barelli, Agnès Petit, Etienne Hirsch, Sherwin Wilk, Guillaume de Nanteuil, Philippe Morain, Frédéric Checler, S 17092-1, a Highly Potent, Specific and Cell Permeant Inhibitor of Human Proline Endopeptidase, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 1999, 257 (3), pp.657-661. ⟨10.1006/bbrc.1999.0366⟩.
1993
Hélène Barelli, Y.K. Mao, Bruno Vincent, E.E. Daniel, J.P. Vincent, F. Checler, Differential catabolic fate of neuromedin N and neurotensin in the canine intestinal mucosa, Peptides, 1993, 14 (3), pp.457-463. ⟨10.1016/0196-9781(93)90132-Z⟩.