Publications by Priscilla Turelli

Cancer cells subvert the primate-specific KRAB zinc finger protein ZNF93 to control APOBEC3B

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Julien Léonard Duc, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Olga Marie Louise Rosspopoff, 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

A Cluster of Evolutionarily Recent KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins Protects Cancer Cells from Replicative Stress–Induced Inflammation

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins, Florian Huber, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Olga Marie Louise Rosspopoff, Romain Forey, Joana Carlevaro Fita

Heterochromatin loss and genetic instability enhance cancer progression by favoring clonal diversity, yet uncontrolled replicative stress leads to mitotic catastrophe and inflammatory responses that promote immune rejection. KRAB domain-containing zinc fin ...

2024

Anti-sars-cov-2 antibodies and use thereof in the treatment of sars-cov-2 infection

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The disclosure provides antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, and use thereof in prophylaxis, treatment and/or attenuation of a SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. ...

2024

Machine Learning in Protein Science De Novo Design of Site-Specific Protein Binders Using Surface Fingerprints

Didier Trono, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Priscilla Turelli, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Dongchun Ni, Andreas Scheck, Anthony Marchand, Casper Alexander Goverde, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Zander Harteveld

WILEY2023

Broadly potent anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody shares 93% of epitope with ACE2 and provides full protection in monkeys

Didier Trono, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Priscilla Turelli, Florence Pojer, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Yoan Désiré Duhoo, Jérémy Campos, Myriam Isabelle Lamrayah, Vanessa Genet

Due to the rapid evolution of SARS-CoV-2 to variants with reduced sensitivity to vaccine-induced humoral immunity and the near complete loss of protective efficacy of licensed therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, we isolated a potent, broad-spectrum neutrali ...

2023

De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

Didier Trono, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Beat Fierz, Priscilla Turelli, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Elisa Oricchio, Sandrine Madeleine Suzanne Georgeon, Dongchun Ni, Andreas Scheck, Michael Bronstein

Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes governing life. However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been challenging to understand, even as genomic, proteomic and structural data increase. This k ...

2023

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

Didier Trono, Jacques Fellay, Priscilla Turelli, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Julien Léonard Duc, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Romain Forey, Bara Khubieh

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

Cryo-EM structures and binding of mouse and human ACE2 to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern indicate that mutations enabling immune escape could expand host range

Didier Trono, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Priscilla Turelli, Florence Pojer, Dongchun Ni, Sergey Nazarov, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Alexander Myasnikov, Emiko Uchikawa

nvestigation of potential hosts of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is crucial to understanding future risks of spillover and spillback. SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to be transmitted from humans to various animals after req ...

2023

Microfluidic characterisation reveals broad range of SARS-CoV-2 antibody affinity in human plasma

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Marc Emmenegger

The clinical outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infections, which can range from asymptomatic to lethal, is crucially shaped by the concentration of antiviral antibodies and by their affinity to their targets. However, the affinity of polyclonal antibody responses in p ...

LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE LLC2022

Anti-sars-cov-2 antibodies and use thereof in the treatment of sars-cov-2 infection

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli

The invention provides anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and use thereof in prophylaxis, treatment and/or attenuation of a SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. ...

2022