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KAP1 targets actively transcribed genomic loci to exert pleomorphic effects on RNA polymerase II activity

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Marco Cassano, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Suk Min Jang

KAP1 (KRAB-associated protein 1) is best known as a co-repressor responsible for inducing heterochromatin formation, notably at transposable elements. However, it has also been observed to bind the transcription start site of actively expressed genes. To a ...

2020

Inflammation and Microbiota Fingerprint: Delphi's Oracle for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma?

Marco Cassano

WILEY2019

ZFP30 promotes adipogenesis through the KAP1-mediated activation of a retrotransposon-derived Pparg2 enhancer

Didier Trono, Bart Deplancke, Julien Léonard Duc, Julie Marie Russeil, Riccardo Dainese, Marco Cassano, Michaël Imbeault, Sunil Kumar Raghav, Petra Catalina Schwalie, Suk Min Jang

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

Pharmacological induction of a progenitor state for the efficient expansion of primary human hepatocytes

Didier Trono, Matthias Lütolf, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Marc Samuel Friedli, Nathalie Brandenberg, Marco Cassano, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro

The liver is an organ with strong regenerative capacity, yet primary hepatocytes have a low amplification potential in vitro, a major limitation for the cell-based therapy of liver disorders and for ex vivo biological screens. Induced pluripotent stem cell ...

2019

Polyphenic trait promotes liver cancer in a model of epigenetic instability

Didier Trono, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Marco Cassano, Suk Min Jang, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Alessandra Piersigilli

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents the fifth most common form of cancer worldwide and carries a high mortality rate due to lack of effective treatment. Males are eight times more likely to develop HCC than females, an effect largely driven by sex ho ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cardiac Niche Influences the Direct Reprogramming of Canine Fibroblasts into Cardiomyocyte-Like Cells

Marco Cassano

The Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies are caused by mutation of dystrophin gene and primarily affect skeletal and cardiac muscles. Cardiac involvement in dystrophic GRMD dogs has been demonstrated by electrocardiographic studies with the onset of a ...

Hindawi Limited2016

Release of human cytomegalovirus from latency by a KAP1/TRIM28 phosphorylation switch

Didier Trono, Isabelle Barde, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Marco Cassano, Suk Min Jang, Benjamin Rauwel

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a highly prevalent pathogen that induces life-long infections notably through the establishment of latency in hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). Bouts of reactivation are normally controlled by the immune system, but can be fat ...

2015

A KAP1 phosphorylation switch controls MyoD function during skeletal muscle differentiation

Didier Trono, Marco Cassano, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Suk Min Jang

The transcriptional activator MyoD serves as a master controller of myogenesis. Often in partnership with Mef2 (myocyte enhancer factor 2), MyoD binds to the promoters of hundreds of muscle genes in proliferating myoblasts yet activates these targets only ...

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Publications Dept2015