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Transcriptomic profiling of murine GnRH neurons reveals developmental trajectories linked to human reproduction and infertility

Bart Deplancke, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Julie Marie Russeil, Daniel Alpern

Rationale: Neurons producing Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) are essential for human reproduction and have to migrate from nose to brain during prenatal life. Impaired GnRH neuron biology results in alterations of the reproductive axis, including del ...

2025

Multi-well plate lid for single-step pooling of 96 samples for high-throughput barcode-based sequencing

Bart Deplancke, Daniel Migliozzi, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern, Gilles Weder, Mustafa Demir, Dariia Gudkova, Hüseyin Baris Atakan

High-throughput transcriptomics is of increasing fundamental biological and clinical interest. The generation of molecular data from large collections of samples, such as biobanks and drug libraries, is boosting the development of new biomarkers and treatm ...

Springer2024

A human omentum-specific mesothelial-like stromal population inhibits adipogenesis through IGFBP2 secretion

Bart Deplancke, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Julie Marie Russeil, Jörn Pezoldt, Guido Van Mierlo, Daniel Alpern, Pernille Yde Rainer, Magda Zachara, Radiana Ferrero

Although several mouse and human adipose SVF cellular subpopulations have by now been identified, we still lack an understanding of the cellular and functional variability of adipose stem and progenitor cell (ASPC) populations across human fat depots. To a ...

Cell Press2024

Optimised set of oligonucleotides for bulk rna barcoding and sequencing

Bart Deplancke, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern

The present invention relates generally to the field of nucleic acid sequencing and provides oligonucleotide molecules and barcodes contained therein. These oligonucleotide molecules and barcodes molecules are useful in sequencing to identify and resolve e ...

2023

Biological material pooling device for biological or biomolecule purification

Bart Deplancke, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern

The present invention concerns a biological material pooling device for biological or biomolecule purification comprising a receptacle including a first orifice comprising ordefining a rectangular opening, the receptacle being configured to receive at leas ...

2023

Method of preparation of cdna library useful for efficient mrna sequencing and uses thereof

Bart Deplancke, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern, Mustafa Demir

The invention relates to methods for the preparation of method of preparation of cDNA library based on one or many RNA samples useful for efficient RNA sequencing and uses thereof. The invention further relates to related tools and kits useful in said meth ...

2022

Mammalian adipogenesis regulator (Areg) cells use retinoic acid signalling to be non- and anti-adipogenic in age-dependent manner

Bart Deplancke, Julie Marie Russeil, Horia Hashimi, Daniel Alpern, Maria Litovchenko, Magda Zachara, Pernille Yde Rainer, Radiana Ferrero

Adipose stem and precursor cells (ASPCs) give rise to adipocytes and determine the composition and plasticity of adipose tissue. Recently, several studies have demonstrated that ASPCs partition into at least three distinct cell subpopulations, including th ...

WILEY2022

A leukemia-protective germline variant mediates chromatin module formation via transcription factor nucleation

Freddy Radtke, Bart Deplancke, Ute Koch, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Julie Marie Russeil, Jörn Pezoldt, Judith Franziska Kribelbauer, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern, Maria Litovchenko

Non-coding variants coordinate transcription factor (TF) binding and chromatin mark enrichment changes over regions spanning >100 kb. These molecularly coordinated regions are named "variable chromatin modules" (VCMs), providing a conceptual framework of h ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Disparate temperature-dependent virus-host dynamics for SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV in the human respiratory epithelium

Bart Deplancke, Bastien Mangeat, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Julie Marie Russeil, Jörn Pezoldt, Elisa Cora, Daniel Alpern

Since its emergence in December 2019, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally and become a major public health burden. Despite its close phylogenetic relationship to SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 exhibits increased human-to- ...

2021

The Hippo pathway controls myofibril assembly and muscle fiber growth by regulating sarcomeric gene expression

Bart Deplancke, Julie Marie Russeil, Daniel Alpern

Skeletal muscles are composed of gigantic cells called muscle fibers, packed with force-producing myofibrils. During development, the size of individual muscle fibers must dramatically enlarge to match with skeletal growth. How muscle growth is coordinated ...

2021