Publications by Andrea Coluccio

ZNF445 is a primary regulator of genomic imprinting

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Michaël Imbeault, Andrea Coluccio, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic process regulated by germline-derived DNA methylation, causing parental origin-specific monoallelic gene expression. Zinc finger protein 57 (ZFP57) is critical for maintenance of this epigenetic memory during post-fertil ...

2019

The interactome of KRAB zinc finger proteins reveals the evolutionary history of their functional diversification

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Ruedi Aebersold, Julien Léonard Duc, Michaël Imbeault, Cécile Piot, Andrea Coluccio, Pierre-Yves Joseph Laurent Helleboid, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Julien Paul André Pontis

Krüppel‐associated box (KRAB)‐containing zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) are encoded in the hundreds by the genomes of higher vertebrates, and many act with the heterochromatin‐inducing KAP1 as repressors of transposable elements (TEs) during early embryogene ...

2019

KAP1 facilitates reinstatement of heterochromatin after DNA replication

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Benjamin Rauwel, Andrea Coluccio, Suk Min Jang, Julien Paul André Pontis, Geneviève Almouzni

During cell division, maintenance of chromatin features from the parental genome requires their proper establishment on its newly synthetized copy. The loss of epigenetic marks within heterochromatin, typically enriched in repetitive elements, endangers ge ...

2018

Individual retrotransposon integrants are differentially controlled by KZFP/KAP1-dependent histone methylation, DNA methylation and TET-mediated hydroxymethylation in naïve embryonic stem cells

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Gabriela Ecco, Andrea Coluccio

BACKGROUND: The KZFP/KAP1 (KRAB zinc finger proteins/KRAB-associated protein 1) system plays a central role in repressing transposable elements (TEs) and maintaining parent-of-origin DNA methylation at imprinting control regions (ICRs) during the wave of g ...

2018

KRAB'n'KAP, DNA methylation and epigenetic memory

Andrea Coluccio

The KZFP/KAP1 (Krüppel associated box zinc finger proteins/KRAB-associated protein 1) complex is a transcriptional repressor that triggers the deposition of heterochromatin (H3K9me3) and DNA methylation. The main targets of the KZFP/KAP1 complex are transp ...

EPFL2017

DUX-family transcription factors regulate zygotic genome activation in placental mammals

Didier Trono, Sonia Verp, Julien Léonard Duc, Andrea Coluccio, Alberto De Iaco, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert

In animal embryos, transcription is mostly silent for several cell divisions, until the release of the first major wave of embryonic transcripts through so-called zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Maternally provided ZGA-triggering factors have been identif ...

2017

Transposable Elements and Their KRAB-ZFP Controllers Regulate Gene Expression in Adult Tissues

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Julien Léonard Duc, Helen Mary Rowe, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Gabriela Ecco, Marco Cassano, Michaël Imbeault, Andrea Coluccio

KRAB-containing zinc finger proteins (KRAB-ZFPs) are early embryonic controllers of transposable elements (TEs), which they repress with their cofactor KAP1 through histone and DNA methylation, a process thought to result in irreversible silencing. Using a ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2016