Publications by Priscilla Turelli

Cancer cells subvert the primate-specific KRAB zinc finger protein ZNF93 to control APOBEC3B

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins, Olga Marie Louise Rosspopoff, Romain Forey

ZNF93 is a primate-restricted Krüppel-associated box zinc finger protein responsible for repressing 20- to 12-My-old L1 transposable elements. Here, we reveal that ZNF93 also regulates the key cancer driver APOBEC3B—a mutagenic enzyme linked to tumorigenes ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2025

A Cluster of Evolutionarily Recent KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins Protects Cancer Cells from Replicative Stress–Induced Inflammation

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins, Olga Marie Louise Rosspopoff, Joana Carlevaro Fita, Romain Forey, Florian Huber

Heterochromatin loss and genetic instability enhance cancer progression by favoring clonal diversity, yet uncontrolled replicative stress leads to mitotic catastrophe and inflammatory responses that promote immune rejection. KRAB domain-containing zinc fin ...

2024

Anti-sars-cov-2 antibodies and use thereof in the treatment of sars-cov-2 infection

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The disclosure provides antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, and use thereof in prophylaxis, treatment and/or attenuation of a SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. ...

2024

Machine Learning in Protein Science De Novo Design of Site-Specific Protein Binders Using Surface Fingerprints

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Anthony Marchand, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Zander Harteveld, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Andreas Scheck, Sarah Wehrle, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais, Casper Alexander Goverde, Dongchun Ni

WILEY2023

Broadly potent anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody shares 93% of epitope with ACE2 and provides full protection in monkeys

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Florence Pojer, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Jérémy Campos, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Myriam Isabelle Lamrayah, Vanessa Genet, Yoan Désiré Duhoo

Due to the rapid evolution of SARS-CoV-2 to variants with reduced sensitivity to vaccine-induced humoral immunity and the near complete loss of protective efficacy of licensed therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, we isolated a potent, broad-spectrum neutrali ...

2023

De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Sandrine Madeleine Suzanne Georgeon, Beat Fierz, Aaron Simone Petruzzella, Anthony Marchand, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Elisa Oricchio, Zander Harteveld, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Freyr Sverrisson, Andreas Scheck, Sarah Wehrle, Stéphane Rosset, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais, Alexandra Teslenko, Jane Marsden, Michael Bronstein, Casper Alexander Goverde, Stephen Michael Buckley, Dongchun Ni, Martin Pacesa

Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes governing life. However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been challenging to understand, even as genomic, proteomic and structural data increase. This k ...

2023

Genetic features and genomic targets of human KRAB-zinc finger proteins

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Jonas Caspar De Tribolet-Hardy, Bara Khubieh, Jacques Fellay, Michaël Imbeault, Alexandre Coudray, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Romain Forey

Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) domain-containing zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) are one of the largest groups of transcription factors encoded by tetrapods, with 378 members in human alone. KZFP genes are often grouped in clusters reflecting amplification by ...

2023

Cryo-EM structures and binding of mouse and human ACE2 to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern indicate that mutations enabling immune escape could expand host range

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Florence Pojer, Sergey Nazarov, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Dongchun Ni, Alexander Myasnikov, Emiko Uchikawa

nvestigation of potential hosts of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is crucial to understanding future risks of spillover and spillback. SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to be transmitted from humans to various animals after req ...

2023

Microfluidic characterisation reveals broad range of SARS-CoV-2 antibody affinity in human plasma

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Marc Emmenegger

The clinical outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infections, which can range from asymptomatic to lethal, is crucially shaped by the concentration of antiviral antibodies and by their affinity to their targets. However, the affinity of polyclonal antibody responses in p ...

LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE LLC2022

Anti-sars-cov-2 antibodies and use thereof in the treatment of sars-cov-2 infection

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The invention provides anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and use thereof in prophylaxis, treatment and/or attenuation of a SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. ...

2022

Anti-sars-cov-2 antibodies and use thereof in the treatment of sars-cov-2 infection

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The invention provides anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and use thereof in prophylaxis, treatment and/or attenuation of a SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. ...

2022

Cell-free method for the quantitative measurement of virus neutralizing antibodies

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The invention provides an in vitro method for the cell-free quantification of virus neutralizing activity, such as the SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing activity, of biological samples and kit for carrying out the method. The invention also provides a method of scre ...

2022

Krab-containing zinc finger protein and cancer

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The present invention provides methods for detecting cancer as well as agents and compositions for treating cancer by modulating the expression and/or activity of one or more i) KRAB-containing zinc finger protein (KZFP), ii) mRNA encoding a KZFP, and/or i ...

2022

Patient-derived monoclonal antibody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants and confers full protection in monkeys

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Florence Pojer, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Dongchun Ni

The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has very high levels of transmission, is resistant to neutralization by authorized therapeutic human monoclonal antibodies (mAb) and is less sensitive to vaccine-mediated immunity. To provide additional therapies against Omic ...

2022

KRAB zinc finger protein ZNF676 controls the transcriptional influence of LTR12-related endogenous retrovirus sequences

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Jonas Caspar De Tribolet-Hardy, Alexandra Iouranova, Michaël Imbeault, Alexandre Coudray, Tamara Rossy, Alexandre Louis André Persat, Delphine Yvette L Grun

Background Transposable element-embedded regulatory sequences (TEeRS) and their KRAB-containing zinc finger protein (KZFP) controllers are increasingly recognized as modulators of gene expression. We aim to characterize the contribution of this system to g ...

2022

S-acylation controls SARS-CoV-2 membrane lipid organization and enhances infectivity

Béatrice Kunz, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Matteo Dal Peraro, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Luciano Andres Abriata, Oksana Andrei Sergeeva, Giovanni D'Angelo, Francisco De Magalhães Sarmento R De Mesquita

SARS-CoV-2 virions are surrounded by a lipid bilayer that contains membrane proteins such as spike, responsible for target-cell binding and virus fusion. We found that during SARS-CoV-2 infection, spike becomes lipid modified, through the sequential action ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2021

A high-throughput cell- and virus-free assay shows reduced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants by COVID-19 convalescent plasma

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Florence Pojer, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Céline Pellaton, Valeria Cagno, Jérémy Campos

The detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-specific antibodies in the serum of an individual indicates previous infection or vaccination. However, it provides limited insight into the protective nature of this immune resp ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

A highly potent antibody effective against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Davide Demurtas, Florence Pojer, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Jérémy Campos, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau

Control of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is endangered by the emergence of viral variants with increased transmission efficiency, resistance to marketed therapeutic antibodies, and reduced sensitivity to vaccine-induced immunity. Here, we screen B cells ...

2021

Primate-restricted KRAB zinc finger proteins and target retrotransposons control gene expression in human neurons

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Bart Deplancke, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Alexandre Coudray, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Julien Paul André Pontis, Evgeniia Pankevich, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Christopher James Playfoot

In the first days of embryogenesis, transposable element-embedded regulatory sequences (TEeRS) are silenced by Kruppel-associated box (KRAB) zinc finger proteins (KZFPs). Many TEeRS are subsequently co-opted in transcription networks, but how KZFPs influen ...

2020

Endogenous retroviruses drive KRAB zinc-finger protein family expression for tumor suppression

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Alexandre Coudray

Gene expression aberration is a hallmark of cancers, but the mechanisms underlying such aberrations remain unclear. Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are genomic repetitive elements that potentially function as enhancers. Since numerous HERVs are epige ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020