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CTCF-dependent insulation of Hoxb13 and the heterochronic control of tail length

Denis Duboule, Fabrice Daniel Darbellay, Lucille Delisle, Alexandre Gauthier Aurèle Mayran, Hocine Rekaik, Célia Corinne Renée Bochaton, Pierre Osteil

Mammalian tail length is controlled by several genetic determinants, among which are Hox13 genes, whose function is to terminate the body axis. Accordingly, the precise timing in the transcriptional activation of these genes may impact upon body length. Un ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

ER-to-lysosome-associated degradation in a nutshell: mammalian, yeast, and plant ER-phagy as induced by misfolded proteins

Maurizio Molinari

Conserved catabolic pathways operate to remove aberrant polypeptides from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the major biosynthetic organelle of eukaryotic cells. The best known are the ER-associated degradation (ERAD) pathways that control the retrotransloca ...

2023

Phalloidin Staining of Actin Filaments for Visualization of Muscle Fibers in Caenorhabditis elegans

Johan Auwerx, Mario Romani

Advances in C. elegans research have allowed scientists to recapitulate different human disorders, from neurodegenerative diseases to muscle dysfunction, in these nematodes. Concomitantly, the interest in visualizing organs affected by these conditions has ...

BIO-PROTOCOL2021

Energy efficiency and biological interactions define the core microbiome of deep oligotrophic groundwater

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Emma Bell

While oligotrophic deep groundwaters host active microbes attuned to the low-end of the bioenergetics spectrum, the ecological constraints on microbial niches in these ecosystems and their consequences for microbiome convergence are unknown. Here, we provi ...

Nature Research2021

Insights gained from a comprehensive all-against-all transcription factor binding motif benchmarking study

Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux

BackgroundPositional weight matrix (PWM) is a de facto standard model to describe transcription factor (TF) DNA binding specificities. PWMs inferred from in vivo or in vitro data are stored in many databases and used in a plethora of biological application ...

2020

Aurora A depletion reveals centrosome-independent polarization mechanism in Caenorhabditis elegans

Kerstin Klinkert Fabbri, Pierre Gönczy, Coralie Busso, Lukas von Tobel, Christian Gentili, Marie Juliette Ségolène Pierron

How living systems break symmetry in an organized manner is a fundamental question in biology. In wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes, symmetry breaking during anterior-posterior axis specification is guided by centrosomes, resulting in anterior-direc ...

2019

Niacin: an old lipid drug in a new NAD(+) dress

Johan Auwerx, Elena Katsyuba, Mario Romani, Dina Hofer

Niacin, the first antidyslipidemic drug, has been at the center stage of lipid research for many decades before the discovery of statins. However, to date, despite its remarkable effects on lipid profiles, the clinical outcomes of niacin treatment on cardi ...

AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC2019

Quantitative analysis of gene expression and transcriptional memory in mouse embryonic stem cells

Aleksandra Mandic

Quantitative studies of gene expression in have shown widespread variability in transcript and protein product abundance at the single-cell level. Such fluctuations in gene expression have been shown to lead to heterogeneous cellular responses and phenotyp ...

EPFL2018

Computational and Statistical analyses of Molecular Evolution and Demography using Large-scale Sequencing Data

Adamantia Kapopoulou

Evolution can be described as the change of allele frequencies over time. Four forces - mutation, migration, genetic drift, and selection, drive this change. The aim of my thesis was to accurately estimate and differentiate the parameters governing each of ...

EPFL2018

Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dynamics malfunction are linked in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease

Johan Auwerx, Laia Morato Fornaguera

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a fatal hypomyelinating disorder characterized by early impairment of motor development, nystagmus, choreoathetotic movements, ataxia and progressive spasticity. PMD is caused by variations in the proteolipid protein g ...

2018

Data-driven reconstruction of a point neuron mouse brain

Csaba Erö

In this work, we present a semi-automatic method to reconstruct a mouse whole-brain model at the point-neuron level by integrating a wide array of biological data. Our process has three parts: cell position and type assignment, connectivity mapping, and si ...

EPFL2018

Tissue-specific enhancer repression through molecular integration of cell signaling inputs

Bart Deplancke

Drosophila leg morphogenesis occurs under the control of a relatively well-known genetic cascade, which mobilizes both cell signaling pathways and tissue-specific transcription factors. However, their cross-regulatory interactions, deployed to refine leg p ...

2017

Transcription facilitated genome-wide recruitment of topoisomerase I and DNA gyrase

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala, Wareed Ahmed

Movement of the transcription machinery along a template alters DNA topology resulting in the accumulation of supercoils in DNA. The positive supercoils generated ahead of transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) and the negative supercoils accumulating behind i ...

Public Library Science2017