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Meeting our Makers: Uncovering the cis-regulatory activity of transposable elements using statistical learning

The adaptation of organisms to their environment depends on the innovative potential inherent to genetic variation. In complex organisms such as mammals, processes like development and immunity require tight gene regulation. Complex forms emerge more often ...

EPFL2024

Nongenetic evolution of the tumor: from challenges to new therapeutic opportunities

Elisa Oricchio

The ability of cancer cells to change and adapt poses a critical challenge to identifying curative solutions. Tumor evolution has been extensively studied from a genetic perspective, to guide clinicians in selecting the most appropriate therapeutic option ...

WILEY2024

Statistical learning quantifies transposable element-mediated cis-regulation

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Alexandre Coudray, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Raphaël Gérard Théodore Michel Marie de Deloÿe et Fourcade de Fondeville, Julien Paul André Pontis, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Shaoline Sheppard

Background: Transposable elements (TEs) have colonized the genomes of most metazoans, and many TE-embedded sequences function as cis-regulatory elements (CREs) for genes involved in a wide range of biological processes from early embryo- genesis to innate ...

2023

Diverse cell-specific patterns of alternative polyadenylation in Drosophila

Bart Deplancke

Most genes in higher eukaryotes express isoforms with distinct 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs), generated by alternative polyadenylation (APA). Since 3' UTRs are predominant locations of post-transcriptional regulation, APA can render such programs condi ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Notch1-driven T-ALL chromatin landscape is regulated by Tcf1 in hematopoietic progenitors

Mateusz Waldemar Antoszewski

Notch1 receptor signaling is essential for T cell fate specification and physiological thymic T lymphocyte development. Its dysregulation and oncogenic activation are detected in almost 80% of pediatric patients suffering from T cell acute lymphoblastic le ...

EPFL2021

The genetic architecture of complex human traits at the dawn of genomic medicine

Olivier Noël Marie Naret

The focus of the work presented in this thesis is the exploration of the genetic architecture of complex human traits - at the dawn of genomic medicine. The underlying mechanisms explaining the enormously polygenic nature of most human complex traits are ...

EPFL2021

KAP1 is an antiparallel dimer with a functional asymmetry

Didier Trono, Matteo Dal Peraro, Beat Fierz, Davide Demurtas, Louise Catherine Bryan, Maria Josefina Marcaida Lopez, Giulia Fonti, Pierre-Yves Joseph Laurent Helleboid, Alexandra Styliani Kalantzi

KAP1 (KRAB domain-associated protein 1) plays a fundamental role in regulating gene expression in mammalian cells by recruiting different transcription factors and altering the chromatin state. In doing so, KAP1 acts both as a platform for macromolecular i ...

Life Science Alliance, LLC2019

Modeling and analysis of parts and devices of genetic regulation

Yves Berset

DNA encrypts the composition of the cellular material that is synthesized through transcription and translation. Never-theless, gene regulation mechanisms determine the final amount of transcribed and translated material. Transcription factors (TF) are a c ...

EPFL2018

Multi-axial self-organization properties of mouse embryonic stem cells into gastruloids

Matthias Lütolf, Denis Duboule, Mehmet Ugur Girgin, Anne-Catherine Cossy

The emergence of multiple axes is an essential element in the establishment of the mammalian body plan. This process takes place shortly after implantation of the embryo within the uterus and relies on the activity of gene regulatory networks that coordina ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

Quantitative single-cell analysis of S. cerevisiae using a microfluidic live-cell imaging platform

Johannes Becker

Genome-wide manipulations and measurements have made huge progress over the last decades. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a well-studied eukaryotic model organism, homologous recombination allows for systematic deletion or alteration of a majority of its gene ...

EPFL2015

Inhibitory Avoidance Learning Is Associated With Altered Expression Of Genes Involved In Neuron-Glia Metabolic Coupling

Pierre Magistretti, Igor Allaman, Sylvain Eric Lengacher, Gabriele Grenningloh, Monika Tadi

Wiley-Blackwell2013

An ancestral regulatory mechanism underlies Hoxd gene expression in both developing genitals and digits

Nicolas Lonfat

Coordinated expression of HoxD cluster genes is crucial for the emergence and patterning of both developing digits and external genitalia. As a shared evolutionary origin has been proposed for these secondary structures, which may have accompanied the tran ...

EPFL2013

Coordinated Effects of Sequence Variation on DNA Binding, Chromatin Structure, and Transcription

Bart Deplancke, David Hacker, Sebastian Martin Waszak, Sunil Kumar Raghav, Alisa Yurovsky, Gilles Udin

DNA sequence variation has been associated with quantitative changes in molecular phenotypes such as gene expression, but its impact on chromatin states is poorly characterized. To understand the interplay between chromatin and genetic control of gene regu ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013

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

Association of Candidate Genes with Phenotypic Traits Relevant to Anorexia Nervosa

Pierre Magistretti

This analysis is a follow-up to an earlier investigation of 182 genes selected as likely candidate genetic variations conferring susceptibility to anorexia nervosa (AN). As those initial case-control results revealed no statistically significant difference ...

2011

The Interplay between Cytidine Deaminases, HIV and Domesticated Genetic Parasites

"There is more virus in us than us in us". John Coffin's famous sentence illustrates that particular nucleic acid sequences related to exogenous viruses, called retrotransposons, constitute almost half of the human genome and largely exceeds the amount of ...

EPFL2010

Experimental strategies for studying transcription factor-DNA binding specificities

Sebastian Maerkl

Specific binding of transcription factors (TFs) determines in a large part the connectivity of gene regulatory networks as well as the quantitative level of gene expression. A multiplicity of both experimental and computational methods is currently used to ...

2010

Dissecting regulatory networks in host-pathogen interaction using chIP-on-chip technology

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala

Understanding host-microbe interactions has been greatly enhanced by our broadening knowledge of the regulatory mechanisms at the heart of pathogenesis. The "transcriptomics" approach of measuring global gene expression has identified genes involved in bac ...

2009

S. pombe FEAR protein orthologs are not required for release of Clp1/Flp1 phosphatase from the nucleolus during mitosis

Viesturs Simanis

Cdc14 family phosphatases are highly conserved regulators of cell-cycle progression. Two of the best studied members of this family are budding yeast Cdc14p and its fission yeast homolog Clp1p/Flp1p. The function of both Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cdc14p and ...

2006

Controlled and localized genetic manipulation in the brain

Carl Petersen

Brain structure and function are determined in part through experience and in part through our inherited genes. A powerful approach for unravelling the balance between activity-dependent neuronal plasticity and genetic programs is to directly manipulate th ...

2006