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Host genomics of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

SARS-CoV-2 infected a large fraction of humans in the past 2 years. The clinical presentation of acute infection varies greatly between individuals, ranging from asymptomatic or mild to life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia with multi-organ complications. De ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

LncRNA Ctcflos orchestrates transcription and alternative splicing in thermogenic adipogenesis

Bart Deplancke, Petra Catalina Schwalie

The recruitment of thermogenic brite adipocytes within white adipose tissue attenuates obesity and metabolic comorbidities, arousing interest in understanding the underlying regulatory mechanisms. The molecular network of brite adipogenesis, however, remai ...

WILEY2021

Enteric infection induces Lark-mediated intron retention at the 5 ' end of Drosophila genes

Bart Deplancke, Maroun Bou Sleiman, Michael Vincent Frochaux, Dani Osman, Tommaso Andreani

Background RNA splicing is a key post-transcriptional mechanism that generates protein diversity and contributes to the fine-tuning of gene expression, which may facilitate adaptation to environmental challenges. Here, we employ a systems approach to study ...

2020

Mild inborn errors of metabolism in commonly used inbred mouse strains

Johan Auwerx, Wei Zhang, Evan Graehl Williams

Inbred mouse strains are a cornerstone of translational research but paradoxically many strains carry mild inborn errors of metabolism. For example, alpha-aminoadipic acidemia and branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase deficiency are known in C57BL/6J mice. ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

Chromatin three-dimensional interactions mediate genetic effects on gene expression

David Hacker, Giovanna Ambrosini, Philipp Bucher, Sanjeev Kumar

Studying the genetic basis of gene expression and chromatin organization is key to characterizing the effect of genetic variability on the function and structure of the human genome. Here we unravel how genetic variation perturbs gene regulation using a da ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

Casein kinase 2 mediated phosphorylation of Spt6 modulates histone dynamics and regulates spurious transcription

Eric Paquet

CK2 is an essential protein kinase implicated in various cellular processes. In this study, we address a potential role of this kinase in chromatin modulations associated with transcription. We found that CK2 depletion from yeast cells leads to replication ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2018

A bi-terminal protein ligation strategy to probe chromatin structure during DNA damage

Beat Fierz, Sinan Kilic, Iuliia Boichenko, Carolin Christine Lechner

The cellular response to DNA damage results in a signaling cascade that primes chromatin for repair. Combinatorial post-translational modifications (PTMs) play a key role in this process by altering the physical properties of chromatin and recruiting downs ...

2018

GETPrime 2.0: gene- and transcript-specific qPCR primers for 13 species including polymorphisms

Bart Deplancke, Jacques Rougemont

GETPrime (http://bbcftools.epfl.ch/getprime) is a database with a web frontend providing geneand transcript-specific, pre-computed qPCR primer pairs. The primers have been optimized for genome-wide specificity and for allowing the selective amplification o ...

Oxford University Press2017

Who Activates the Nucleophile in Ribozyme Catalysis? An Answer from the Splicing Mechanism of Group II Introns

Ursula Röthlisberger, Giulia Palermo, Lorenzo Casalino

Group II introns are Mg2+-dependent ribozymes that are considered to be the evolutionary ancestors of the eukaryotic spliceosome, thus representing an ideal model system to understand the mechanism of conversion of premature messenger RNA (mRNA) into matur ...

2016

Temperature regulates splicing efficiency of the cold-inducible RNA-binding protein gene Cirbp

Felix Naef, Saeed Omidi Klishami

In mammals, body temperature fluctuates diurnally around a mean value of 36 degrees C-37 degrees C. Despite the small differences between minimal and maximal values, body temperature rhythms can drive robust cycles in gene expression in cultured cells and, ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2016

Integrating Gene Synthesis and MITOMI for Rapid Protein Engineering

Matthew Christopher Blackburn

The research described within this thesis is primarily motivated by two fields of science with reversed, yet complementary, approaches to addressing the same essential objective: manipulating and understanding the complex program of life. Whereas synthetic ...

EPFL2016

Isoform switching of steroid receptor co-activator-1 attenuates glucocorticoid-induced anxiogenic amygdala CRH expression

Maladaptive glucocorticoid effects contribute to stress-related psychopathology. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) that mediates many of these effects uses multiple signaling pathways. We have tested the hypothesis that manipulation of downstream factors (' ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Phase specific transcriptional regulation of circadian clock and metabolism in mouse liver

Jonathan Aryeh Sobel

The molecular clock has been conserved from cyanobacteria to mammals and is believed to align behavioral and biochemical processes with the diurnal cycle. This cellular mechanism has been an advantage to increase the fitness of organisms through the abilit ...

EPFL2016

Identification of potential HIV restriction factors by combining evolutionary genomic signatures with functional analyses

Amalio Telenti, Paul Jack Mc Laren, Danielle Thompson, Daniel Sauter, Jérémie Perreaud

Background: Known antiretroviral restriction factors are encoded by genes that are under positive selection pressure, induced during HIV-1 infection, up-regulated by interferons, and/or interact with viral proteins. To identify potential novel restriction ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

Identification of target-binding peptide motifs by high-throughput sequencing of phage-selected peptides

Christian Heinis, Inmaculada Rentero Rebollo, Vanessa Baeriswyl, Michal Sabisz

High-throughput sequencing was previously applied to phage-selected peptides in order to gain insight into the abundance and diversity of isolated peptides. Herein we developed a procedure to efficiently compare the sequences of large numbers of phage-sele ...

Oxford Univ Press2014

Cellular magnetic resonance with iron oxide nanoparticles: long-term persistence of SPIO signal in the CNS after transplanted cell death

Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Chiara Cianciaruso

Aim: To study the specificity of cellular MRI based on superparamagnetic iron oxide particles (SPIOs), especially within the CNS. Materials & methods: A microglial cell line was engineered for the expression of a suicide gene, the receptor of diphtheria to ...

Future Medicine Ltd2014

A transcript perspective on evolution

Bernard Moret, Yann Christinat

Alternative splicing is now recognized as a major mechanism for transcriptome and proteome diversity in higher eukaryotes, yet its evolution is poorly understood. Most studies focus on the evolution of exons and introns at the gene level, while only few co ...

Ieee Computer Soc2013

Superinfection with drug-resistant HIV is rare and does not contribute substantially to therapy failure in a large European cohort

Istvan Bartha

Background: Superinfection with drug resistant HIV strains could potentially contribute to compromised therapy in patients initially infected with drug-sensitive virus and receiving antiretroviral therapy. To investigate the importance of this potential ro ...

Biomed Central Ltd2013

MiR-511-3p Modulates Genetic Programs of Tumor-Associated Macrophages

Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Ferdinando Pucci

Expression of the mannose receptor (MRC1/CD206) identifies macrophage subtypes, such as alternatively activated macrophages (AAMs) and M2-polarized tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), which are endowed with tissue-remodeling, proangiogenic, and protumoral ...

Cell Press2012

Genome-Wide Evaluation of Histone Methylation Changes Associated with Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis

Nishanth Ulhas Nair

Leaf senescence is the orderly dismantling of older tissue that allows recycling of nutrients to developing portions of the plant and is accompanied by major changes in gene expression. Histone modifications correlate to levels of gene expression, and this ...

Public Library of Science2012