Publications by Christopher James Playfoot

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

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

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

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