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Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in Geneva, Switzerland (SEROCoV-POP): a population-based study

Didier Trono, Idris Guessous, Benjamin André René Meyer, David Nicolas De Ridder

Assessing the burden of COVID-19 on the basis of medically attended case numbers is suboptimal given its reliance on testing strategy, changing case definitions, and disease presentation. Population-based serosurveys measuring anti-severe acute respiratory ...

2020

Transposon-activated POU5F1B promotes colorectal cancer growth and metastasis

Didier Trono, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Alexandre Coudray, Laia Simo Riudalbas, Sagane Dind

The treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) is an unmet medical need in absence of early diagnosis. Here, upon characterizing cancer-specific transposable element-driven transpochimeric gene transcripts (TcGTs) produced by this tumor in the SYSCOL cohort, we ...

Nature Research2022

Identification of the transcription factor ZEB1 as a central component of the adipogenic gene regulatory network

Didier Trono, Bart Deplancke, Sebastian Martin Waszak, Sunil Kumar Raghav, Petra Catalina Schwalie, Gilles Udin, Andrea Corsinotti

Adipose tissue is a key determinant of whole body metabolism and energy homeostasis. Unraveling the regulatory mechanisms underlying adipogenesis is therefore highly relevant from a biomedical perspective. Our current understanding of fat cell differentiat ...

Elife Sciences Publications Ltd2014

Modulation of mitophagy and use thereof

Didier Trono, Isabelle Barde

The present invention relates to an agent or composition comprising at least one of: (i) a micro-RNA targeting a mitophagy-associated gene or a variant thereof, (ii) a vector comprising a nucleic acid encoding said micro-RNA or variant thereof, (iii) an in ...

2014

A Large-Scale Functional Screen to Identify Epigenetic Repressors of Retrotransposon Expression

Didier Trono, Gabriela Ecco

Deposition of epigenetic marks is an important layer of the transcriptional control of retrotransposons, especially during early embryogenesis. Krüppel-associated box domain zinc finger proteins (KRAB-ZFPs) are one of the largest families of transcription ...

2016

Innate immunity against retroviral pathogens: from an ambiguous genetic self to novel therapeutic approaches

Didier Trono

Almost half of the human genome is derived from exogenous genetic invaders, most of them related to retroviruses. This is the consequence of longstanding interactions between retroelements and higher organisms, governed by a delicate equilibrium between vi ...

Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd / EMH Swiss Medical Publishers2009

Krab-containing zinc finger protein and cancer

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The present invention provides methods for detecting cancer as well as agents and compositions for treating cancer by modulating the expression and/or activity of one or more i) KRAB-containing zinc finger protein (KZFP), ii) mRNA encoding a KZFP, and/or i ...

2022

ZNF445 is a primary regulator of genomic imprinting

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Michaël Imbeault, Andrea Coluccio

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic process regulated by germline-derived DNA methylation, causing parental origin-specific monoallelic gene expression. Zinc finger protein 57 (ZFP57) is critical for maintenance of this epigenetic memory during post-fertil ...

2019

Transposable elements contribute to the spatiotemporal microRNA landscape in human brain development

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Shaoline Sheppard, 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

De novo DNA methylation of endogenous retroviruses is shaped by KRAB-ZFPs/KAP1 and ESET

Didier Trono, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Sonia Verp, Marc Samuel Friedli

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) undergo de novo DNA methylation during the first few days of mammalian embryogenesis, although the factors that control the targeting of this process are largely unknown. We asked whether KAP1 (KRAB-associated protein 1) is i ...

Company Of Biologists Ltd2013

Multipotential nestin and Isl-1 positive mesenchymal stem cells isolated from human pancreatic islets

Didier Trono

Mesenchymal cells in the developing pancreas express the neural stem cell marker nestin and the transcription factor islet-1 (Isl-1). Using defined culture conditions we isolated on a single cell basis nestin producing cells from human pancreatic islets. T ...

Elsevier2006

Primate-restricted KRAB zinc finger proteins and target retrotransposons control gene expression in human neurons

Didier Trono, Bart Deplancke, Priscilla Turelli, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Julien Léonard Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Julien Paul André Pontis, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, 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

ZFP30 promotes adipogenesis through the KAP1-mediated activation of a retrotransposon-derived Pparg2 enhancer

Didier Trono, Bart Deplancke, Julien Léonard Duc, Riccardo Dainese, Marco Cassano, Julie Marie Russeil, Michaël Imbeault, Wanze Chen, Suk Min Jang, Carine Delattre-Gubelmann, Petra Catalina Schwalie, Sunil Kumar Raghav

Krüppel-associated box zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) constitute the largest family of mammalian transcription factors, but most remain completely uncharacterized. While initially proposed to primarily repress transposable elements, recent reports have revea ...

Nature Research2019

The evolution of gene expression and binding specificity of the largest transcription factor family in primates

Didier Trono, Jeffrey David Jensen, Adamantia Kapopoulou

The KRAB-containing zinc finger (KRAB-ZF) proteins represent the largest family of transcription factors (TFs) in humans, yet for the great majority, their function and specific genomic target remain unknown. However, it has been shown that a large fractio ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Loss of transcriptional control over endogenous retroelements during reprogramming to pluripotency

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Marc Samuel Friedli, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Bastien Mangeat, Gabriela Ecco, Benjamin Rauwel, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro

Endogenous retroelements (EREs) account for about half of the mouse or human genome, and their potential as insertional mutagens and transcriptional perturbators is suppressed by early embryonic epigenetic silencing. Here, we asked how ERE control is maint ...

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Publications Dept2014

Clusters of lineage-specific genes are anchored by ZNF274 in repressive perinucleolar compartments

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Olga Marie Louise Rosspopoff, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Shaoline Sheppard, Martina Begnis

Long known as the site of ribosome biogenesis, the nucleolus is increasingly recognized for its role in shaping three-dimensional (3D) genome organization. Still, the mechanisms governing the targeting of selected regions of the genome to nucleolus-associa ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2024

Polyphenic trait promotes liver cancer in a model of epigenetic instability

Didier Trono, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Alessandra Piersigilli, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Marco Cassano, Suk Min Jang

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents the fifth most common form of cancer worldwide and carries a high mortality rate due to lack of effective treatment. Males are eight times more likely to develop HCC than females, an effect largely driven by sex ho ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

SARS-CoV-2 hijacks a cell damage response, which induces transcription of a more efficient Spike S-acyltransferase

Didier Trono, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Béatrice Kunz, Francisco De Magalhães Sarmento Ribeiro De Mesquita, Lucie Josepha Marie Bracq, Audrey Geneviève Chuat, Nattawadee Panyain

SARS-CoV-2 infection requires Spike protein-mediated fusion between the viral and cellular membranes. The fusogenic activity of Spike depends on its post-translational lipid modification by host S-acyltransferases, predominantly ZDHHC20. Previous observati ...

Nature Research2023

Cancer cells subvert the primate-specific KRAB zinc finger protein ZNF93 to control APOBEC3B

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Olga Marie Louise Rosspopoff, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Romain Forey

ZNF93 is a primate-restricted Krüppel-associated box zinc finger protein responsible for repressing 20- to 12-My-old L1 transposable elements. Here, we reveal that ZNF93 also regulates the key cancer driver APOBEC3B—a mutagenic enzyme linked to tumorigenes ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2025

Transposable elements and their epigenetic control mechanisms are key regulators of transcriptional networks in pluripotent stem cells

Didier Trono

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2014