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In vitro modeling of complex microenvironmental regulation of stem cells

Although stem cells hold tremendous potential for clinical applications, their in vitro manipulation remains very challenging. In vivo, stem cells reside in intricate 3D microenvironments, termed niche, in which many local and systemic extrinsic factors ar ...

EPFL2017

Control of growth and gut maturation by &ITHoxD&IT genes and the associated lncRNA &ITHaglr&IT

Denis Duboule, Fabrice Daniel Darbellay, Anamaria Necsulea, Jozsef Zakany

During embryonic development, Hox genes participate in the building of a functional digestive system in metazoans, and genetic conditions involving these genes lead to important, sometimes lethal,growth retardation. Recently, this phenotype was obtained af ...

National Academy of Sciences2017

Topological Domains, Metagenes, and the Emergence of Pleiotropic Regulations at Hox Loci

Denis Duboule, Fabrice Daniel Darbellay

Hox gene clusters of jaw vertebrates display a tight genomic organization, which has no equivalent in any other bilateria genomes sequenced thus far. It was previously argued that such a topological consolidation toward a condensed, metagenic structure was ...

Elsevier Academic Press Inc2016

Reorganisation of Hoxd regulatory landscapes during the evolution of a snake-like body plan

Denis Duboule

Within land vertebrate species, snakes display extreme variations in their body plan, characterized by the absence of limbs and an elongated morphology. Such a particular interpretation of the basic vertebrate body architecture has often been associated wi ...

Elife Sciences Publications Ltd2016

A role for HOX13 proteins in the regulatory switch between TADs at the HoxD locus

Denis Duboule, Nicolas Lonfat, Leonardo Beccari, Anamaria Necsulea, Nayuta Yakushiji, Edgardo Rodriguez Carballo

During vertebrate limb development, Hoxd genes are regulated following a bimodal strategy involving two topologically associating domains (TADs) located on either side of the gene cluster. These regulatory landscapes alternatively control different subsets ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2016

Control of Hoxd gene transcription in the mammary bud by hijacking a preexisting regulatory landscape

Denis Duboule, Virginie Marcet, Guillaume Andrey, Leonardo Beccari, Anamaria Necsulea, Edgardo Rodriguez Carballo, Jozsef Zakany

Vertebrate Hox genes encode transcription factors operating during the development of multiple organs and structures. However, the evolutionary mechanism underlying this remarkable pleiotropy remains to be fully understood. Here, we show that Hoxd8 and Hox ...

National Academy of Sciences2016

Structure, function and evolution of topologically associating domains (TADs) at HOX loci

Denis Duboule, Nicolas Lonfat

Hox genes encode transcription factors necessary for patterning the major developing anterior to posterior embryonic axis. In addition, during vertebrate evolution, various subsets of this gene family were co-opted along with the emergence of novel body st ...

Elsevier2015

Role of a polymorphism in a Hox/Pax-responsive enhancer in the evolution of the vertebrate spine

Denis Duboule

Patterning of the vertebrate skeleton requires the coordinated activity of Hox genes. In particular, Hox10 proteins are essential to set the transition from thoracic to lumbar vertebrae because of their rib-repressing activity. In snakes, however, the thor ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

A switch between topological domains underlies HoxD genes collinearity in mouse limbs

Denis Duboule, Didier Trono, Guillaume Andrey, Daniël Noordermeer, Marion Leleu

Hox genes are major determinants of the animal body plan, where they organize structures along both the trunk and appendicular axes. During mouse limb development, Hoxd genes are transcribed in two waves: early on, when the arm and forearm are specified, a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013