Evan Graehl Williams

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Urolithin A induces mitophagy and prolongs lifespan in C. elegans and increases muscle function in rodents

Johan Auwerx, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Patrick Aebischer, Dongryeol Ryu, Laurent Mouchiroud, Elena Katsyuba, Pénélope Andreux, Norman Lionel Moullan, Evan Graehl Williams, Pooja Jha

The biological effects of urolithins remain poorly characterized, despite wide-spread human exposure via the dietary consumption of their metabolic precursors, the ellagitannins, which are found in the pomegranate fruit, as well as in nuts and berries. We ...

2016

Two Conserved Histone Demethylases Regulate Mitochondrial Stress-Induced Longevity

Johan Auwerx, Laurent Mouchiroud, Evan Graehl Williams, Virginija Jovaisaite

Across eukaryotic species, mild mitochondrial stress can have beneficial effects on the lifespan of organisms. Mitochondrial dysfunction activates an unfolded protein response (UPR(mt)), a stress signaling mechanism designed to ensure mitochondrial homeost ...

Cell Press2016

Systems proteomics of liver mitochondria function

Johan Auwerx, Evan Graehl Williams, Pooja Jha, Tiffany Amariuta, Ruedi Aebersold, Sébastien Dubuis

Recent improvements in quantitative proteomics approaches, including Sequential Window Acquisition of all Theoretical Mass Spectra (SWATH-MS), permit reproducible large-scale protein measurements across diverse cohorts. Together with genomics, transcriptom ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

Tetracyclines Disturb Mitochondrial Function across Eukaryotic Models: A Call for Caution in Biomedical Research

Johan Auwerx, Bart Deplancke, Richardus Houtkooper, Laurent Mouchiroud, Dongryeol Ryu, Xu Wang, Evan Graehl Williams, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Virginija Jovaisaite, Norman Lionel Moullan

In recent years, tetracyclines, such as doxycycline, have become broadly used to control gene expression by virtue of the Tet-on/Tet-off systems. However, the wide range of direct effects of tetracycline use has not been fully appreciated. We show here tha ...

Elsevier2015

The Convergence of Systems and Reductionist Approaches in Complex Trait Analysis

Johan Auwerx, Evan Graehl Williams

Research into the genetic and environmental factors behind complex trait variation has traditionally been segregated into distinct scientific camps. The reductionist approach aims to decrypt phenotypic variability bit by bit, founded on the underlying hypo ...

2015

An evolutionarily conserved role for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in the regulation of movement

Johan Auwerx, Bart Deplancke, Laurent Mouchiroud, Pénélope Andreux, Evan Graehl Williams, Michael Vincent Frochaux

The BXD genetic reference population is a recombinant inbred panel descended from crosses between the C57BL/6 (B6) and DBA/2 (D2) strains of mice, which segregate for about 5 million sequence variants. Recently, some of these variants have been established ...

Public Library of Science2014

Pharmacological Inhibition of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerases Improves Fitness and Mitochondrial Function in Skeletal Muscle

Johan Auwerx, Kristina Schoonjans, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Laurent Mouchiroud, Evan Graehl Williams, Hongbo Zhang, Norman Lionel Moullan, Eija Riitta Pirinen, Keir Joe Menzies, Laia Morato Fornaguera

We previously demonstrated that the deletion of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (Parp)-1 gene in mice enhances oxidative metabolism, thereby protecting against diet-induced obesity. However, the therapeutic use of PARP inhibitors to enhance mitochondrial f ...

Cell Press2014

Multilayered genetic and omics dissection of mitochondrial activity in a mouse reference population

Johan Auwerx, Evan Graehl Williams, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Virginija Jovaisaite, Ruedi Aebersold, Sébastien Dubuis

The manner by which genotype and environment affect complex phenotypes is one of the fundamental questions in biology. In this study, we quantified the transcriptome--a subset of the metabolome--and, using targeted proteomics, quantified a subset of the li ...

Cell Press2014

A Systems Approach to Identify Genetic and Environmental Regulators of Metabolism

Evan Graehl Williams

For more than a century, it has been recognized that our genetic inheritance and our environment interact to shape who we are and how we act (nature vs. nurture ), and the study of genetics has allowed us to explain why traits can vary dramatically betwee ...

EPFL2014

NCoR1 Is a Conserved Physiological Modulator of Muscle Mass and Oxidative Function

Johan Auwerx, Kristina Schoonjans, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Laurent Mouchiroud, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Evan Graehl Williams

Transcriptional coregulators control the activity of many transcription factors and are thought to have wide-ranging effects on gene expression patterns. We show here that muscle-specific loss of nuclear receptor corepressor 1 (NCoR1) in mice leads to enha ...

2011

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Pharmacological Inhibition of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerases Improves Fitness and Mitochondrial Function in Skeletal Muscle

Johan Auwerx, Kristina Schoonjans, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Laurent Mouchiroud, Evan Graehl Williams, Hongbo Zhang, Norman Lionel Moullan, Eija Riitta Pirinen, Keir Joe Menzies, Laia Morato Fornaguera

Cell Press2014

A Systems Approach to Identify Genetic and Environmental Regulators of Metabolism

Evan Graehl Williams

EPFL2014