Claude Balny

Les travaux de Claude Balny et de ses collaborateurs ont donné lieu à la publication de 160 articles originaux, à 60 publications dans des ouvrages, à 20 articles de revues didactiques, et à l’édition de huit ouvrages.

• Possani LD, Banerjee R, Balny C, Douzou, P. Oxidation of haemoglobin by oxygen singulet: possible role of singlet oxygen. Nature 226: 861-62, 1970.
• Balny C, Debey P, Douzou P. Reversible suspension of metabolism in subcellular organelles in "antifreeze" media at sub-zero temperatures. Cryobiology 9: 465-8, 1972.
• Debey P, Balny C, Douzou P. Enzyme assay in microsomes below zero degrees. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 70: 2633-36, 1973.
• Hastings JW, Balny C, Le Peuch C, Douzou, P. Spectral properties of an oxygenated luciferase-flavin intermediate isolated by low temperature chromatography. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 70: 3468-72, 1973.
• Debey P, Balny C, Douzou P. The sub-zero temperature chromatographic isolation of transient intermediates of a multi-step cycle: purification of the substrate-bound oxy-ferrous cytochrome P450. FEBS Lett 69: 231-5, 1976.
• Douzou P, Balny C. Cryoenzymology in mixed solvents without cosolvent effects on enzyme specific activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 74 2297-300, 1977.
• Douzou P, Balny C. Protein fractionation at subzero temperatures. Advances in Protein Chemistry 32: 77-189, 1978.
• Douzou P, Keh E, Balny C. Cryoenzymology in aqueous media: micellar solubilized-water clusters. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 76: 681-84, 1979.
• Kim, CH, Balny C, King, TE. Kinetics of electron transfer between cardiac cytochrome c1 and c. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 81: 2026-29, 1984.
• Balny C, Travers F, Barman T, Douzou P. Cryobaroenzymic studies as a tool to investigate activated complexes: creatine kinase.ADP.Mg.nitrate.creatine as a model. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 82: 7495-99, 1985.
• Kim CH, Balny C, King TE. Role of the hinge protein in the electron transfer between cardiac cytochrome c1 and c: equilibrium constants and kinetic probes. J Biol Chem 262: 8103-08, 1987.
• Balny C, Douzou P. Enzyme studies at subzero temperatures using immobilized substrates. Methods Enzymol 135: 528-36, 1987. Review
• Heiber-Langer I, Hooper AB, Balny C. Pressure modulation of cytochrome-to-cytochrome electron-transfer. Models and enzyme reactions. Biophys Chem 43: 265-77, 1992.
• Balny C, Masson P. Effects of high pressure on proteins. Food Rev Inter 9: 611-628, 1993. Review
• Lange R, Anzenbacher P, Müller S, Maurin L, Balny C. Interaction of tryptophan residues of cytochrome P450scc with a highly specific fluorescence quencher, a substrate analogue, compared to acrylamide and iodide. Eur J Biochem 226:963-70, 1994.
• Mozhaev VV, Heremans K, Frank J, Masson P, Balny C. Exploiting the effects of high hydrostatic pressure in biotechnical applications. Trends in Biotech 12: 493-501, 1994. Review
• Mozhaev VV, Bec N, Balny C. Baroenzymology in reversed micelles. Ann N Y Acad Sci 750: 94-6, 1995.
• Mozhaev VV, Heremans K, Frank J, Masson P, Balny C. High pressure effects on protein structure and function. Proteins: Struct Func Genetics 24: 81-91, 1996. Review.
• Kudryashova EV, Mozhaev VV, Balny C. Catalytic activity of thermolysin under extremes of pressure and temperature: modulation by metal ions. Biochim Biophys Acta 1386:199-210, 1998.
• St John RJ, Carpenter JF, Balny C, Randolph TW. High pressure refolding of recombinant human growth hormone from insoluble aggregates. J Biol Chem 276: 46856-863, 2001.
• Balny C, Masson P, Heremans K. High pressure effects on biological macromolecules: from structural changes to alteration of cellular processes. Biochim Biophys Acta 1595: 3-10, 2002. Review.
• Bancel F, Hoa GH, Anzenbacher P, Balny C, Lange R. High pressure: a new toolto study P450 structure and function. Methods Enzymol 357: 145-57, 2002. Review
• Torrent J, Alvarez-Martinez MT, Harricane MC, Heitz F, Liautard JP, Balny C, Lange R. High pressure induces scrapie-like prion protein misfolding and amyloid formation. Biochemistry 43: 7162-70, 2004.

Ouvrages

• Balny C, Hayashi R, Heremans K, Masson P, Eds, High Pressure and Biotechnology, Colloque Inserm. John Libbey Eurotext, Montrouge, London,1992, vol. 224, 565 p.
• Hayashi R, Balny C, Eds, High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology. Progress in Biotechnology Serie, Elsevier, Tokyo, 1996, vol. 13, 522 p.
• Heremans K, Ed., Balny C, Frank J, Hayashi R, Hendrick M, Ludwig H, co-Eds, High Pressure Research in the Bioscience and Biotechnology. Leuven University Press, Belgium, 1997, 534 p.
• Luche JL, Balny C, Benefice S, Denis JM, Pétrier C, Eds, Chemical Processes and Reactions under Extreme or Non-classic Conditions. Eur Com Pub, Luxembourg, 1998, 260 p.
• Konczewicz L, Balny C, Cheftel JC, Eds, High Pressure Res. Proceedings of the 37th Meeting EHPRG, Gordon and Breach Sci Pub, 2000, 19 (2 tomes), 784 p.
• Balny C, Masson P, Heremans K, Guest Eds. Special Issue, Biochim. Biophys Acta, 2002, 1595, 1-403.
• Balny C, Masson P, Heremans K, Eds, Frontiers in High Pressure Biochemistry and Biophysics. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2002.
• Lavalette D, Balny C, Guest Eds. Special Issue, Biochim. Biophys. Acta. Some Insights into the Biophysics of Complex Systems, 2005, 1724, 225-453.

Article de culture scientifique

• Balny C, Heremans K, Masson P. Haute pression et biologie : une démarche d’avenir. Biofutur 112: 37-42, 1992.