Heddy Soufari

The paper identifies missing steps in mitochondrial translation initiation in plants using cryogenic electron microscopy.

This study characterizes the mitoribosome structure and function in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, revealing its unique RNA assembly, protein components, and membrane attachment mechanisms.

The paper shows that the Halastavi arva virus IGR IRES initiates translation without initiation factors or an AUG codon by directly placing the first codon in the decoding center.

The paper determines the structure of the 43S PIC from Trypanosoma cruzi and identifies structural differences in translation initiation compared to mammalian hosts.

The paper reports cryo-EM structures of plant mitochondrial complex I, revealing a plant-specific carbonic anhydrase domain and its role in complex stability.

The paper presents cryo-EM structures of mature and intermediate mitoribosomes from Leishmania tarentolae and Trypanosoma cruzi, revealing the structure and maturation of the large subunit ribosomal RNA and associated maturation factors.

This study presents a near-atomic resolution cryo-EM structure of the plant mitochondrial ribosome from cauliflower, revealing unique rRNA expansion segments and their interactions with PPR proteins.