Publications associées à Sens 5' vers 3'

Molecular mechanism of plasmid elimination by the DdmDE defense system

Melanie Blokesch, Sandrine Stutzmann, David William Adams, Laurie Righi

Seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae strains contain two pathogenicity islands that encode the DNA defense modules DdmABC and DdmDE. Here we use cryogenic electron microscopy to reveal the mechanistic basis for plasmid defense by DdmDE. A structure of the DdmD ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2024

cgNA+: A sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of double-stranded nucleic acids

Rahul Sharma

DNA mechanics plays a crucial role in many biological processes, including nucleosome positioning and protein-DNA interactions. It is believed that nature employs epigenetic modifications in DNA to further regulate gene expression. Moreover, double-strande ...

EPFL2023

Unraveling looping efficiency of stochastic Cosserat polymers

Raushan Singh, Giulio Corazza

Understanding looping probabilities, including the particular case of ring closure or cyclization, of fluctuating polymers (e.g., DNA) is important in many applications in molecular biology and chemistry. In a continuum limit the configuration of a polymer ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Fluid flow-induced left-right asymmetric decay of Dand5 mRNA in the mouse embryo requires a Bicc1-Ccr4 RNA degradation complex

Daniel Constam, Benjamin Marcel Daniel Rothé

Molecular left-right (L-R) asymmetry is established at the node of the mouse embryo as a result of the sensing of a leftward fluid flow by immotile cilia of perinodal crown cells and the consequent degradation of Dand5 mRNA on the left side. We here examin ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Influence of Rotational Nucleosome Positioning on Transcription Start Site Selection in Animal Promoters

Giovanna Ambrosini, Philipp Bucher, René Dreos

The recruitment of RNA-Pol-II to the transcription start site (TSS) is an important step in gene regulation in all organisms. Core promoter elements (CPE) are conserved sequence motifs that guide Pol-II to the TSS by interacting with specific transcription ...

Public Library Science2016

An interplay between the p38 MAPK pathway and AUBPs regulates c-fos mRNA stability during mitogenic stimulation

Diego Chiappe, Tamara Tanos

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways constitute key regulatory elements linking extracellular stimuli to nuclear gene expression. Immediate-early responsive genes (IEGs) of the activator protein 1 (AP-1) family, such as fos, achieve peak expres ...

Portland Press Ltd2015

Genetic interplay between HLA-C and MIR148A in HIV control and Crohn disease

Jacques Fellay, Paul Jack Mc Laren

Variation in the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of the HLA-C locus determines binding of the microRNA Hsa-miR-148a, resulting in lower cell surface expression of alleles that bind miR-148a relative to those alleles that escape its binding. The HLA-C 3'UTR ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Structural Variation-Associated Expression Changes Are Paralleled by Chromatin Architecture Modifications

Jacques Rougemont, Marion Leleu, Nele Gheldof

Copy number variants (CNVs) influence the expression of genes that map not only within the rearrangement, but also to its flanks. To assess the possible mechanism(s) underlying this "neighboring effect", we compared intrachromosomal interactions and histon ...

Public Library of Science2013

Real-Time mRNA Measurement during an

Sebastian Maerkl, Henrike Marie Niederholtmeyer

In vitro transcription and translation reactions have become popular for a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology. Concentrations of the mRNA intermediate are rarely determined, although knowledge of synthesis and degradation rates could facilitate ration ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

A gene-rich, transcriptionally active environment and the pre-deposition of repressive marks are predictive of susceptibility to KRAB/KAP1-mediated silencing

Didier Trono, Giovanna Ambrosini, Jacques Rougemont, Nadine Fournier, Philipp Bucher, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Anna Claire Groner, Sylvain Meylan

BACKGROUND: KRAB-ZFPs (Kruppel-associated box domain-zinc finger proteins) are vertebrate-restricted transcriptional repressors encoded in the hundreds by the mouse and human genomes. They act via an essential cofactor, KAP1, which recruits effectors respo ...

BioMed Central2011

Epigenetic Modification of the FMR1 Gene in Fragile X Syndrome Is Associated with Differential Response to the mGluR5 Antagonist AFQ056

Nouchine Hadjikhani, Fei Chen

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an X-linked condition associated with intellectual disability and behavioral problems. It is caused by expansion of a CGG repeat in the 5' untranslated region of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene. This mutation is a ...

2011

Unique Cell-Type-Specific Distributions and Functions of Brain MicroRNAs

Ana Jovicic

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The first miRNA was discovered less than 20 years ago in the context of studying Caenorabditis elegans development. The discovery of the second miR ...

EPFL2011

Alterations of the 5 ' Untranslated Region of SLC16A12 Lead to Age-Related Cataract

PURPOSE. Knowledge of genetic factors predisposing to age-related cataract is very limited. The aim of this study was to identify DNA sequences that either lead to or predispose for this disease. ...

2010

A systematic molecular dynamics study of nearest-neighbor effects on base pair and base pair step conformations and fluctuations in B-DNA

John Maddocks

It is well recognized that base sequence exerts a significant influence on the properties of DNA and plays a significant role in protein-DNA interactions vital for cellular processes. Understanding and predicting base sequence effects requires an extensive ...

2010

KAP1 controls endogenous retroviruses in embryonic stem cells

Didier Trono, Daniel Constam, Séverine Reynard, Jacques Rougemont, Sonia Verp, Hillary Layard-Liesching, Helen Mary Rowe, Johan Jakobsson, Pierre Maillard

More than forty per cent of the mammalian genome is derived from retroelements, of which about one-quarter are endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). Some are still active, notably in mice the highly polymorphic early transposon (ETn)/MusD and intracisternal A-ty ...

Nature Publishing Group2010

The Origins of Time-Delay in Template Biopolymerization Processes

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

Time-delays are common in many physical and biological systems and they give rise to complex dynamic phenomena. The elementary processes involved in template biopolymerization, such as mRNA and protein synthesis, introduce significant time delays. However, ...

Public Library of Science2010

Cyclin D1 Enhances the Response to Estrogen and Progesterone by Regulating Progesterone Receptor Expression

Cathrin Brisken

Estrogen and progesterone are the defining hormones of normal female development, and both play critical roles in breast carcinogenesis. Cyclin D1 is a breast cancer oncogene whose amplification is linked to poor prognosis in estrogen and progesterone rece ...

American Society for Microbiology2010

Studies on lentiviral-mediated transgenesis

Marc-Olivier Sauvain

Transgenic animals are essential research tools, whether to address basic biological questions or to develop preclinical models of human diseases. Their generation through the injection of naked plasmid DNA into the male pronucleus of a fertilized oocyte h ...

EPFL2009

Genotypic features of lentivirus transgenic mice

Didier Trono, Denis Duboule, Felix Naef, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Frédéric Schütz

Lentivector-mediated transgenesis is increasingly used, whether for basic studies as an alternative to pronuclear injection of naked DNA or to test candidate gene therapy vectors. In an effort to characterize the genetic features of this approach, we first ...

American Society for Microbiology2008

Identification of the minimal promoter region of the mouse NKX5-3, a transcription factor implicated in eye development

Early ocular development is controlled by a complex network of transcription factors, cell cycle regulators, and diffusible signalling molecules. Together, these molecules regulate cell proliferation and apoptosis, and specify retinal fate. NKX5-3 is a hom ...

2008