Publications de Julien Léonard Duc

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

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

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

Transposable Elements and Their KRAB-ZFP Controllers Regulate Gene Expression in Adult Tissues

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Julien Léonard Duc, Michaël Imbeault, Marco Cassano, Gabriela Ecco, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Andrea Coluccio

KRAB-containing zinc finger proteins (KRAB-ZFPs) are early embryonic controllers of transposable elements (TEs), which they repress with their cofactor KAP1 through histone and DNA methylation, a process thought to result in irreversible silencing. Using a ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2016

Primate-specific transposable elements shape transcriptional networks during human development

Christopher James Playfoot, Matthias Lütolf, Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Julien Paul André Pontis, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Andrea Manfrin

The human genome harbors more than 4.5 million transposable element (TE)-derived insertions, the result of recurrent waves of invasion and internal propagation. Here they show that TEs belonging to evolutionarily recent subfamilies go on to regulate later ...

Nature Portfolio2022

KAP1 facilitates reinstatement of heterochromatin after DNA replication

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Julien Léonard Duc, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Andrea Coluccio, Julien Paul André Pontis, Suk Min Jang, Benjamin Rauwel

During cell division, maintenance of chromatin features from the parental genome requires their proper establishment on its newly synthetized copy. The loss of epigenetic marks within heterochromatin, typically enriched in repetitive elements, endangers ge ...

2018

DUX-family transcription factors regulate zygotic genome activation in placental mammals

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Julien Léonard Duc, Sonia Verp, Andrea Coluccio, Alberto De Iaco

In animal embryos, transcription is mostly silent for several cell divisions, until the release of the first major wave of embryonic transcripts through so-called zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Maternally provided ZGA-triggering factors have been identif ...

2017

Efficient and sensitive profiling of RNA–protein interactions using TLC-CLIP

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Christina Ernst

RNA-binding proteins are instrumental for post-transcriptional gene regulation, controlling all aspects throughout the lifecycle of RNA molecules. However, transcriptome-wide methods to profile RNA-protein interactions in vivo remain technically challengin ...

2023

Individual retrotransposon integrants are differentially controlled by KZFP/KAP1-dependent histone methylation, DNA methylation and TET-mediated hydroxymethylation in naïve embryonic stem cells

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Julien Léonard Duc, Gabriela Ecco, Andrea Coluccio

BACKGROUND: The KZFP/KAP1 (KRAB zinc finger proteins/KRAB-associated protein 1) system plays a central role in repressing transposable elements (TEs) and maintaining parent-of-origin DNA methylation at imprinting control regions (ICRs) during the wave of g ...

2018

DPPA2 and DPPA4 are necessary to establish a 2C‐like state in mouse embryonic stem cells

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Alberto De Iaco

After fertilization of the transcriptionally silent oocyte, expression from both parental chromosomes is launched through zygotic genome activation (ZGA), occurring in the mouse at the 2-cell (2C) stage. Among the first elements to be transcribed are the D ...

2019

Injury-induced intestinal stem cell renewal requires capillary morphogenesis gene 2

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Nathalie Brandenberg, Olivier Burri, Romain Guiet, Julien Léonard Duc, Béatrice Kunz, Lucie Josepha Marie Bracq, Audrey Geneviève Chuat

Patients with the rare genetic disorder Hyaline Fibromatosis Syndrome (HFS) often succumb before 18 months of age due to severe diarrhea. As HFS is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding capillary morphogenesis gene 2 (CMG2), these sympt ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

The mouse genome displays highly dynamic populations of KRAB-zinc finger protein genes and related genetic units

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Michaël Imbeault, Marco Cassano, Gabriela Ecco, Annamaria Kauzlaric

KRAB-containing poly-zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) constitute the largest family of transcription factors encoded by mammalian genomes, and growing evidence indicates that they fulfill functions critical to both embryonic development and maintenance of adul ...

Public Library of Science2017

Hominoid-Specific Transposable Elements and KZFPs Facilitate Human Embryonic Genome Activation and Control Transcription in Naive Human ESCs

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Julien Léonard Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Julien Paul André Pontis

Expansion of transposable elements (TEs) coincides with evolutionary shifts in gene expression. TEs frequently harbor binding sites for transcriptional regulators, thus enabling coordinated genome-wide activation of species- and context-specific gene expre ...

2019

Molecular Criteria for Defining the Naive Human Pluripotent State

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Julien Léonard Duc, Marc Samuel Friedli, Michaël Imbeault, Julien Paul André Pontis, Alexandra Iouranova

Recent studies have aimed to convert cultured human pluripotent cells to a naive state, but it remains unclear to what extent the resulting cells recapitulate in vivo naive pluripotency. Here we propose a set of molecular criteria for evaluating the naive ...

Cell Press2016

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

Transposable elements and their KZFP controllers are drivers of transcriptional innovation in the developing human brain

Didier Trono, Julien Léonard Duc, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Alexandre Coudray, Shaoline Sheppard, Christopher James Playfoot, Sagane Dind

Transposable elements (TEs) account for more than 50% of the human genome and many have been co-opted throughout evolution to provide regulatory functions for gene expression networks. Several lines of evidence suggest that these networks are fine-tuned by ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT2021

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

Genetic features and genomic targets of human KRAB-zinc finger proteins

Jacques Fellay, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Alexandre Coudray, Michaël Imbeault, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Romain Forey, Jonas Caspar De Tribolet-Hardy

Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) domain-containing zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) are one of the largest groups of transcription factors encoded by tetrapods, with 378 members in human alone. KZFP genes are often grouped in clusters reflecting amplification by ...

2023

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

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

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

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