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Organ distribution of gene expression after intravenous infusion of targeted and untargeted lentiviral vectors

Lentiviral vectors represent an attractive technology platform from which to develop a targetable injectable gene delivery system for transduction of specific cell populations in vivo, irrespective of their cell cycle status. Targeted HIV-1-based lentivira ...

2001

Self-inactivating lentiviral vectors with enhanced transgene expression as potential gene transfer system in Parkinson's disease

Patrick Aebischer, Jean-Charles Bensadoun, Romain Zufferey, Didier Trono

Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is able to protect dopaminergic neurons against various insults and constitutes therefore a promising candidate for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Lentiviral vectors that infect quiescent neuronal c ...

2000

KRAB zinc finger protein ZNF676 controls the transcriptional influence of LTR12-related endogenous retrovirus sequences

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Jonas Caspar De Tribolet-Hardy, Alexandra Iouranova, Michaël Imbeault, Alexandre Coudray, Tamara Rossy, Alexandre Louis André Persat, Delphine Yvette L Grun

Background Transposable element-embedded regulatory sequences (TEeRS) and their KRAB-containing zinc finger protein (KZFP) controllers are increasingly recognized as modulators of gene expression. We aim to characterize the contribution of this system to g ...

2022

De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Sandrine Madeleine Suzanne Georgeon, Beat Fierz, Aaron Simone Petruzzella, Anthony Marchand, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Elisa Oricchio, Zander Harteveld, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Freyr Sverrisson, Andreas Scheck, Sarah Wehrle, Stéphane Rosset, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais, Alexandra Teslenko, Jane Marsden, Michael Bronstein, Casper Alexander Goverde, Stephen Michael Buckley, Dongchun Ni, Martin Pacesa

Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes governing life. However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been challenging to understand, even as genomic, proteomic and structural data increase. This k ...

2023

KRAB zinc-finger proteins contribute to the evolution of gene regulatory networks

Didier Trono, Michaël Imbeault, Pierre-Yves Joseph Laurent Helleboid

The human genome encodes some 350 Kruppel-associated box (KRAB) domain-containing zinc-finger proteins (KZFPs), the products of a rapidly evolving gene family that has been traced back to early tetrapods(1,2). The function of most KZFPs is unknown, but a f ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

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

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

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

Endogenous retroviruses drive KRAB zinc-finger protein family expression for tumor suppression

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Alexandre Coudray

Gene expression aberration is a hallmark of cancers, but the mechanisms underlying such aberrations remain unclear. Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are genomic repetitive elements that potentially function as enhancers. Since numerous HERVs are epige ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Harnessing HIV for therapy, basic research and biotechnology

Didier Trono

First described about a decade ago, lentiviral vectors ('lentivectors') have emerged as potent and versatile tools of gene transfer for basic and applied research and offer exciting perspectives for the field of gene therapy. In the clinic, HIV-based vecto ...

2005

A versatile tool for conditional gene expression and knockdown

Patrick Aebischer, Didier Trono, Marc-Olivier Sauvain

Drug-inducible systems allowing the control of gene expression in mammalian cells are invaluable tools for genetic research, and could also fulfill essential roles in gene- and cell-based therapy. Currently available systems, however, often have limited in ...

Nature Publishing Group2006

Measuring In Vivo Protein Half-Life

Kai Johnsson, Christian Heinis, Didier Trono, Isabelle Barde, Sonia Verp, Karolina Bojkowska, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen

Protein turnover critically influences many biological functions, yet methods have been lacking to assess this parameter in vivo. Here, we demonstrate how chemical labeling of SNAP-tag fusion proteins can be exploited to measure the half-life of resident i ...

Elsevier2011

KAP1 controls endogenous retroviruses in embryonic stem cells

Didier Trono, Daniel Constam, Séverine Reynard, Sonia Verp, Jacques Rougemont, Hillary Layard-Liesching

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

A third-generation lentivirus vector with a conditional packaging system

Romain Zufferey, Didier Trono

Vectors derived from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are highly efficient vehicles for in vivo gene delivery. However, their biosafety is of major concern. Here we exploit the complexity of the HIV genome to provide lentivirus vectors with novel biosafe ...

American Society for Microbiology1998

Woodchuck hepatitis virus posttranscriptional regulatory element enhances expression of transgenes delivered by retroviral vectors

Romain Zufferey, Didier Trono

The expression of genes delivered by retroviral vectors is often inefficient, a potential obstacle for their widespread use in human gene therapy. Here, we explored the possibility that the posttranscriptional regulatory element of woodchuck hepatitis viru ...

American Society for Microbiology1999

Lentiviral vectors and antiretroviral intrinsic immunity

Didier Trono, Bastien Mangeat

Multicellular organisms have evolved under relentless attacks from pathogens, and as a consequence have spiked their genomes with numerous genes that serve to thwart these threats, notably through the building of the innate and adaptive arms of the immune ...

2005

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

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, Martina Begnis, 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

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, 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

DNA damage sensors ATM, ATR, DNA-PKcs, and PARP-1 are dispensable for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integration

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

Integration of a DNA copy of the viral RNA genome is a crucial step in the life cycle of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and other retroviruses. While the virally encoded integrase is key to this process, cellular factors yet to be characterize ...

American Society for Microbiology2005

Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike versus Nucleoprotein Antibody Responses Impact the Estimates of Infections in Population-Based Seroprevalence Studies

David Hacker, Didier Trono, Florence Pojer, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-specific antibody responses to the spike (S) protein monomer, S protein native trimeric form, or the nucleocapsid (N) proteins were evaluated in cohorts of individuals with acute infection (n = 9 ...

American Society for Microbiology2021

A high-throughput cell- and virus-free assay shows reduced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants by COVID-19 convalescent plasma

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Florence Pojer, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Valeria Cagno, Jérémy Campos

The detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-specific antibodies in the serum of an individual indicates previous infection or vaccination. However, it provides limited insight into the protective nature of this immune resp ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021