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Clément Madru

@cryoclem.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor in structural biology (💎 & 🔬) Structural Biology of the Cell - BIOC École polytechnique - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Palaiseau -France.

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Clément Madru @cryoclem.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Happy to share our latest paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great collaboration with @ifremer.bsky.social, @cbitoulouse.bsky.social & @pasteur.fr. Studying stress in P. abyssi with near-native, minimally purified ribosomes, we identified HibA, a new hibernation factor widespread in Archaea.

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Clément Madru @cryoclem.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Sharing this figure from the Koonin lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Worth printing large and framing

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Clément Madru @cryoclem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

4/🧵 - In one of these conformations, Hib blocks the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) of the large subunit by occupying both the A and P sites : A long Hib loop encircles nucleotide A2834, which separates the P and A sites, effectively locking the ribosome in an inactive state

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Clément Madru @cryoclem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

3/🧵- High-resolution cryo-EM structures of reconstituted and in cell-extracted Hib:ribosome complexes from Pyrococcus abyssi identify three conformations encompassing the positions of tRNAs at A, P and E sites during translation.

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Clément Madru @cryoclem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Our work on ribosome hibernation in archaea is out! We identified Hib, a new hibernation factor broadly distributed across archaea. Check out the preprint 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.676729v1 (1/🧵)

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Clément Madru @cryoclem.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

First ribosome purification using poly-lysine beads (RAPPL, developed by @djuranoviclab.bsky.social & collaborators: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Full process—from lysis to grid prep—in just 3 hours. Look how pretty it is (even if a bit too diluted)! This is a game-changer🚀.

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