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Mitochondria and Epigenetics Crosstalk in Homeostasis and Stress

Through epigenetic mechanisms cells integrate environmental stimuli to fine-tune gene expression levels. Mitochondrial function is essential to provide the intermediate metabolites necessary to generate and modify epigenetic marks in the nucleus, which in ...

Elsevier Science London2017

Is detection of intraperitoneal exfoliated tumor cells after surgical resection of rectal cancer a prognostic factor of survival?

Paul Refinetti, Per Olaf Ekstrom

Background: The prognostic significance of free cancer cells detected in peritoneal fluid at the time of rectal surgery remains unclear. A substantial number of patients will develop metastatic disease even with successful local treatment. This prospective ...

2017

Mapping mitochondrial heteroplasmy in a Leydig tumor by laser capture microdissection and cycling temperature capillary electrophoresis

Stephan Morgenthaler, Paul Refinetti, Per Olaf Ekstrom

Background: The growth of tumor cells is accompanied by mutations in nuclear and mitochondrial genomes creating marked genetic heterogeneity. Tumors also contain non-tumor cells of various origins. An observed somatic mitochondrial mutation would have occu ...

BioMed Central2017

Activation of the STING-dependent type I interferon response reduces microglial reactivity and neuroinflammation

Hilal Lashuel, Ritwik Burai

Brain aging and neurodegeneration are associated with prominent microglial reactivity and activation of innate immune response pathways, commonly referred to as neuroinflammation. One such pathway, the type I interferon response, recognizes viral or mitoch ...

Cell Press2017

Cycling temperature capillary electrophoresis: A quantitative, fast and inexpensive method to detect mutations in mixed populations of human mitochondrial DNA

Stephan Morgenthaler, Paul Refinetti, Per Olaf Ekstrom

Cycling temperature capillary electrophoresis has been optimised for mutation detection in 76% of the mitochondrial genome. The method was tested on a mixed sample and compared to mutation detection by next generation sequencing. Out of 152 fragments 90 we ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Modulation of AMPK's activity via genetic tools and food-derived compounds as a novel approach to Parkinson's disease treatment

Wojciech Janusz Bobela

Aging is considered as a major risk factor for Parkinsonâs disease (PD) and can be defined as a gradual decline in the ability of biological systems to efficiently renew structural and functional components, which may lead to perturbations in energetic h ...

EPFL2016

Advances in farm animal genomic resources

Stéphane Joost

The history of livestock started with the domestication of their wild ancestors: a restricted number of species allowed to be tamed and entered a symbiotic relationship with humans. In exchange for food, shelter and protection, they provided us with meat, ...

Frontiers2016

Mitochondrial DNA Analyses Indicate High Diversity, Expansive Population Growth and High Genetic Connectivity of Vent Copepods (Dirivultidae) across Different Oceans

Stefan Jean Laurent

Communities in spatially fragmented deep-sea hydrothermal vents rich in polymetallic sulfides could soon face major disturbance events due to deep-sea mineral mining, such that unraveling patterns of gene flow between hydrothermal vent populations will be ...

Public Library of Science2016

The mitochondrial unfolded protein response - synchronizing genomes

Johan Auwerx, Virginija Jovaisaite

Maintenance of the mitochondrial proteome is performed primarily by chaperones, which fold and assemble proteins, and by proteases, which degrade excess damaged proteins. Upon various types of mitochondrial stress, triggered genetically or pharmacologicall ...

Current Biology Ltd2015

A method to identify and validate mitochondrial modulators using mammalian cells and the worm C-elegans

Johan Auwerx, Laurent Mouchiroud, Pénélope Andreux, Richardus Houtkooper, Xu Wang, Norman Lionel Moullan, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Virginija Jovaisaite, Sabrina Bichet

Mitochondria are semi-autonomous organelles regulated by a complex network of proteins that are vital for many cellular functions. Because mitochondrial modulators can impact many aspects of cellular homeostasis, their identification and validation has pro ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

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