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CAO Anne-Marinette

BioNanomaterials

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Office:	B224
Email:	anne-marinette.cao@unifr.ch
	0000-0001-5303-3963

Publications

Comparing iron sucrose and ferric carboxymaltose interactions with murine and human macrophages: Focus on the lysosomal compartment
Mauro Sousa de Almeida, Amélie Bazzoni, Sandor Balog, Kata Dorbic, Céline Loussert-Fonta, Aura Maria Moreno-Echeverri, Jules Duruz, Jorge Larios, Anne-Marinette Cao, Amy Barton Alston, Reinaldo Digigow, Beat Flühmann, Alke Petri-Fink, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 217 , 107390 (2026)

Sulfide silver autometallography to differentiate the ultrastructural localization of iron-carbohydrate complexes inside macrophages
Anne-Marinette Cao, Jules Duruz, Mauro Sousa de Almeida, Dimitri Vanhecke, Amy E. Alston, Reinaldo Digigow, Beat Flühmann, Alke Petri-Fink, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser
Scientific Reports 15 (2025)

Allosteric modulators enhance agonist efficacy by increasing the residence time of a GPCR in the active state
Anne-Marinette Cao, Robert B. Quast, Fataneh Fatemi, Philippe Rondard, Jean-Philippe Pin, Emmanuel Margeat
Nature Communications 12 (2021)

Single molecule analysis reveals positive allosteric modulators are required to stabilize the active state of a metabotropic glutamate receptor
Anne-Marinette Cao, Robert B. Quast, Fataneh Fatemi, Philippe Rondard, Jean-Philippe Pin, Emmanuel Margeat
preprint (2021)

Improvement of Cell Penetrating Peptide for Efficient siRNA Targeting of Tumor Xenografts in Zebrafish Embryos
Nabila Laroui, Nicolas Cubedo, Mireille Rossel, Nadir Bettache
Advanced Therapeutics 3 , 1900204 (2020)

Structural Dynamics of Single Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Dimers
Robert Quast, Anne-Marinette Cao, Fataneh Fatemi, Linnea Olofsson, Philippe Rondard, Jean Philippe Pin, Emmanuel Margeat
Biophysical Journal 118 , 58a (2020)

Chromatin Fiber Invasion and Nucleosome Displacement by the Rap1 Transcription Factor
Maxime Mivelaz, Anne-Marinette Cao, Slawomir Kubik, Sevil Zencir, Ruud Hovius, Iuliia Boichenko, Anna Maria Stachowicz, Christoph F. Kurat, David Shore, Beat Fierz
Molecular Cell 77 , 488-500.e9 (2020)

Chromatin remodeling induced by the invasion of yeast pioneer transcription factor Rap1 revealed by single-molecule FRET
Anne-Marinette Cao, Maxime Mivelaz, Iuliia Boichenko, Louise Bryan, Slawomir Kubik, David Shore, Beat Fierz
Biophysical Journal 116 , 39a-40a (2019)

The mechanistic basis for chromatin invasion and remodeling by the yeast pioneer transcription factor Rap1
Maxime Mivelaz, Anne-Marinette Cao, Slawomir Kubik, Sevil Zencir, Ruud Hovius, Iuliia Boichenko, Anna Maria Stachowicz, Christoph F. Kurat, David Shore, Beat Fierz
preprint (2019)

Chloride ions stabilize the glutamate-induced active state of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 3
Amélie S. Tora, Xavier Rovira, Anne-Marinette Cao, Alexandre Cabayé, Linnéa Olofsson, Fanny Malhaire, Pauline Scholler, Hayeon Baik, Ann Van Eeckhaut, Ilse Smolders, Philippe Rondard, Emmanuel Margeat, Francine Acher, Jean-Philippe Pin, Cyril Goudet
Neuropharmacology 140 , 275-286 (2018)

Single-molecule analysis reveals the mechanism of transcription activation in M. tuberculosis
Rishi Kishore Vishwakarma, Anne-Marinette Cao, Zakia Morichaud, Ayyappasamy Sudalaiyadum Perumal, Emmanuel Margeat, Konstantin Brodolin
journal-article (2018)

Structural dynamics of single metabotropic glutamate receptors in solution
Anne-Marinette Cao, Fataneh Fatemi, Linnea Oloffson, Suren Felekyan, Claus Seidel, Philippe Rondard, Jean-Philippe Pin, Emmanuel Margeat
Biophysical Journal 112 , 328a (2017)

Structural dynamics of metabotropic glutamate receptors by single-molecule FRET

dissertation-thesis (2016)

Structural dynamics of the full-length metabotropic glutamate receptors by single-molecule FRET
Anne-Marinette Cao, Fataneh Fatemi, Philippe Rondard, Jean-Philippe Pin, Emmanuel Margeat
conference-poster (2016)