Chargée de recherche – Research Associate (CNRS)
Email: a.sour@unistra.fr
Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 13 63

Professional experiences and research topics:

Since 2018     Research Associate at the University of Strasbourg in the group of Pr. P. Faller (Laboratoire de Biométaux et Chimie Biologique).

2010-2018     Research Associate at the University of Strasbourg in the group of Pr. V. Heitz.
Research field: contrast agents for MRI, porphyrin-based photosensitizers for PhotoDynamic Therapy.

Previous research fields in different universities:
Research fields: molecular machines, contrast agents for MRI, photochemistry, spin crossover, dendrimers, organic and coordination chemistry.

1991-1994      PhD in Chemistry, University of Strasbourg (Supervisor : Dr. J.-P. Sauvage) Transfert d’électron et transfert d’énergie dans des systèmes dinucléaires à ligands pontants rigides.

Recent publications:

 

  1. “Lanthanide complexes bearing a bioinspired CuII binding site with picomolar affinity: synthesis, structural, relaxometric and luminescence studies”, Katharina Zimmeter, Bertrand Vileno, Agnès Pallier, Carlos Platas-Iglesias, Peter Faller, Célia S. Bonnet, Angélique Sour, Dalton Trans, 2025, 54, 15432-15440.
  2. “Exploring Bioinspired Ln3+ Complexes for Cu2+ Detection: Designand Efficacy as MRI Contrast Agents”, Martina Sanadar, Katharina Zimmeter, Agnès Pallier, Bertrand Vileno, Peter Faller, Angélique Sour, Célia S. Bonnet, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, e202500049.
  3. “Quest for a stable Cu-ligand complex with a high catalytic activity to produce reactive oxygen species”, Merwan Bouraguba, Adeline M. Schmitt, Suseela Yelisetty Venkata, Bertrand Vileno, Frédéric Melin, Elise Glattard, Christophe Orvain, Vincent Lebrun, Laurent Raibaut, Marianne Ilbert, Burkard Bechinger, Petra Hellwig, Christian Gaiddon, Angélique Sour, Peter Faller, Metallomics, 2024, 16, mfae020.
  4. “A Bioinspired Cu2+-Responsive Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agent with Unprecedented Turn-on Response and Selectivity”, Katharina Zimmeter, Agnès Pallier, Bertrand Vileno, Martina Sanadar, Frédéric Szeremeta, Carlos Platas-Iglesias, Peter Faller, Célia S. Bonnet, Angélique Sour, Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, 63, 23067-23076.
  5. “Three in One: In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Anticancer Activity of a Theranostic Agent that Combines Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Optical Bioimaging, and Photodynamic Therapy Capabilities”; Sarah Boumati, Angélique Sour, Valérie Heitz, Johanne Seguin, Gautier Beitz, Yusuke Kaga, Marta Jakubaszek, Johannes Karges, Gilles Gasser, Nathalie Mignet, Bich-Thuy Doan; ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023. https://doi.org/ 10.1021/acsabm.3c00565t.
  6. “Impact of human serum albumin on CuII and ZnII complexation by ATSM (diacetyl−bis(N4−methyl thiosemicarbazone) and a water soluble analogue”; Álvaro Martínez−Camarena, Angélique Sour, Peter Faller; Dalton Transactions, 2023, 52, 13758−13768.
  7. “Derivatization of the Peptidic Xxx−Zzz−His Motif toward a Ligand with Attomolar Cu II Affinity under Maintaining High Selectivity and Fast Redox Silencing”, Katharina Zimmeter, Bertrand Vileno, Carlos Platas−Iglesias, Bharath Vinjamuri, Angélique Sour, Peter Faller, Inorganic Chemistry, 2023, 62, 9429−9439.
  8. “Extracellular Cu2+ pools and their detection: From current knowledge to next-generation probes“, E. Falcone, M. Okafor, N. Vitale, L. Raibaut, A. Sour, P. Faller, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2021, 433, 213727.
  9. “Reversible turn-on fluorescent Cu(II) sensors: rather dream than reality?“, Enrico Falcone, Angélique Sour, Vincent Lebrun, Gilles Ulrich, Laurent Raibaut, Peter Faller, Dalton Trans. 2019, 59, 48, 14233-14237.