Publications by Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert

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

Evolutionarily recent transcription factors partake in human cell cycle regulation

Didier Trono, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Alexandre Coudray, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins, Alex Russell Lederer, Olga Marie Louise Rosspopoff, Romain Forey

The cell cycle is a fundamental process in eukaryotic biology and is accordingly controlled by a highly conserved core signaling cascade. However, whether recently evolved proteins also influence this process is unclear. Here, we systematically map the inf ...

2025

Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals atypical monocytes circulating ahead of acute graft-versus-host disease clinical onset

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins

Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) represents the rejection of the recipient's skin, gut, and liver tissues of an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) by the donor T cells. The onset of aGVHD is often rapid and its evolution is un ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2024

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

Ancestral genome reconstruction enhances transposable element annotation by identifying degenerate integrants

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Wayo Matsushima

Growing evidence indicates that transposable elements (TEs) play important roles in evolution by providing genomes with coding and non-coding sequences. Identification of TE-derived functional elements, however, has relied on TE annotations in individual s ...

2024

Statistical learning quantifies transposable element-mediated cis-regulation

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Shaoline Sheppard, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Raphaël Gérard Théodore Michel Marie de Deloÿe et Fourcade de Fondeville, Julien Paul André Pontis, Delphine Yvette L Grun

Background: Transposable elements (TEs) have colonized the genomes of most metazoans, and many TE-embedded sequences function as cis-regulatory elements (CREs) for genes involved in a wide range of biological processes from early embryo- genesis to innate ...

2023

The immunopeptidome landscape associated with T cell infiltration, inflammation and immune editing in lung cancer

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Laia Simo Riudalbas

One key barrier to improving efficacy of personalized cancer immunotherapies that are dependent on the tumor antigenic landscape remains patient stratification. Although patients with CD3+CD8+ T cell-inflamed tumors typically show better response to immune ...

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

Transposable elements contribute to the spatiotemporal microRNA landscape in human brain development

Didier Trono, Shaoline Sheppard, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Christopher James Playfoot

Transposable elements (TEs) contribute to the evolution of gene regulatory networks and are dynamically expressed throughout human brain development and disease. One gene regulatory mechanism influenced by TEs is the miRNA system of post-transcriptional co ...

2022

The interplay between regulatory variants, transposable elements and gene expression in the context of colorectal cancer

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Nikolaos Lykoskoufis

SPRINGERNATURE2022

Primate-specific transposable elements shape transcriptional networks during human development

Matthias Lütolf, Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Andrea Manfrin, Julien Paul André Pontis, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Christopher James Playfoot

The human genome harbors more than 4.5 million transposable element (TE)-derived insertions, the result of recurrent waves of invasion and internal propagation. Here they show that TEs belonging to evolutionarily recent subfamilies go on to regulate later ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Transposon-activated POU5F1B promotes colorectal cancer growth and metastasis

Didier Trono, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Alexandre Coudray, Sagane Dind, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Laia Simo Riudalbas

The treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) is an unmet medical need in absence of early diagnosis. Here, upon characterizing cancer-specific transposable element-driven transpochimeric gene transcripts (TcGTs) produced by this tumor in the SYSCOL cohort, we ...

Nature Research2022

Transposable elements and their KZFP controllers are drivers of transcriptional innovation in the developing human brain

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Sagane Dind, Shaoline Sheppard, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Christopher James Playfoot

Transposable elements (TEs) account for more than 50% of the human genome and many have been co-opted throughout evolution to provide regulatory functions for gene expression networks. Several lines of evidence suggest that these networks are fine-tuned by ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT2021

Transposon-activated POU5F1B promotes colorectal cancer growth and metastasis

Didier Trono, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Alexandre Coudray, Sagane Dind, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Laia Simo Riudalbas

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2021

Integrated proteogenomic deep sequencing and analytics accurately identify non-canonical peptides in tumor immunopeptidomes

Didier Trono, Marion Leleu, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, George Coukos, Ioannis Xenarios, Laia Simo Riudalbas, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Alexandre Harari, Markus Müller, Lin Zhang, Marion Arnaud, Florian Huber

Efforts to precisely identify tumor human leukocyte antigen (HLA) bound peptides capable of mediating T cell-based tumor rejection still face important challenges. Recent studies suggest that non-canonical tumor-specific HLA peptides derived from annotated ...

Nature Research2020

Transpochimeric gene trancripts (tcgts) as cancer biomarkers

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Laia Simo Riudalbas

The invention relates to methods for detecting or predicting the likelihood of a cancer in a subject as well as to compositions, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of cancer. ...

2020

KAP1 targets actively transcribed genomic loci to exert pleomorphic effects on RNA polymerase II activity

Didier Trono, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Marco Cassano, Suk Min Jang, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert

KAP1 (KRAB-associated protein 1) is best known as a co-repressor responsible for inducing heterochromatin formation, notably at transposable elements. However, it has also been observed to bind the transcription start site of actively expressed genes. To a ...

2020

Hominoid-Specific Transposable Elements and KZFPs Facilitate Human Embryonic Genome Activation and Control Transcription in Naive Human ESCs

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Julien Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Julien Paul André Pontis

Expansion of transposable elements (TEs) coincides with evolutionary shifts in gene expression. TEs frequently harbor binding sites for transcriptional regulators, thus enabling coordinated genome-wide activation of species- and context-specific gene expre ...

2019

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

Pharmacological induction of a progenitor state for the efficient expansion of primary human hepatocytes

Matthias Lütolf, Didier Trono, Nathalie Brandenberg, Marc Samuel Friedli, Marco Cassano, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert

The liver is an organ with strong regenerative capacity, yet primary hepatocytes have a low amplification potential in vitro, a major limitation for the cell-based therapy of liver disorders and for ex vivo biological screens. Induced pluripotent stem cell ...

2019