Publications by Gerard Llimos Aubach

A leukemia-protective germline variant mediates chromatin module formation via transcription factor nucleation

Freddy Radtke, Ute Koch, Bart Deplancke, Riccardo Dainese, Julie Marie Russeil, Daniel Alpern, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Maria Litovchenko, Gerard Llimos Aubach, Jörn Pezoldt, Judith Franziska Kribelbauer

Non-coding variants coordinate transcription factor (TF) binding and chromatin mark enrichment changes over regions spanning >100 kb. These molecularly coordinated regions are named "variable chromatin modules" (VCMs), providing a conceptual framework of h ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Toward a mechanistic understanding of variable chromatin modules

Gerard Llimos Aubach

Our genome is a long sequence of DNA that contains all the information to be able to constitute a living organism like us, similarly to what the letters in a book do to create a story. This sequence, which is a stretch of molecules called nucleotides, is a ...

EPFL2021

Reduced NCOR2 expression accelerates androgen deprivation therapy failure in prostate cancer

Gerard Llimos Aubach

This study addresses the roles of nuclear receptor corepressor 2 (NCOR2) in prostate cancer (PC) progression in response to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Reduced NCOR2 expression significantly associates with shorter disease-free survival in patients ...

CELL PRESS2021

A parallelized, automated platform enabling individual or sequential ChIP of histone marks and transcription factors

Bart Deplancke, Antonio Carlos Alves Meireles Filho, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Gerard Llimos Aubach, Jia Yuan Jiang

Despite its popularity, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) remains a tedious (>2 d), manually intensive, low-sensitivity and low-throughput approach. Here, we combine principles of microengineering, surface chemistry, and molec ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

The miR-96 and RAR gamma signaling axis governs androgen signaling and prostate cancer progression

Gerard Llimos Aubach

Expression levels of retinoic acid receptor gamma (NR1B3/RARG, encodes RAR gamma) are commonly reduced in prostate cancer (PCa). Therefore, we sought to establish the cellular and gene regulatory consequences of reduced RAR gamma expression, and determine ...

Springer2019

Characterizing the global function of NCOR2 in prostate cancer cells and its contribution to PCa progression

Gerard Llimos Aubach

2018