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Constitutive gray hair in Mice induced by Melanocyte-specific deletion of c-Myc

Friedrich Beermann, Karine Schouwey, Marzia Armaro

c-Myc is involved in the control of diverse cellular processes and implicated in the maintenance of different tissues including the neural crest. Here we report that c-Myc is particularly important for pigment cell development and homeostasis. Targeting c- ...

2012

Sox10 promotes the formation and maintenance of giant congenital naevi and melanoma

Yann Barrandon, Friedrich Beermann, Stéphanie Claudinot, Lukas Sommer

Giant congenital naevi are pigmented childhood lesions that frequently lead to melanoma, the most aggressive skin cancer. The mechanisms underlying this malignancy are largely unknown, and there are no effective therapies. Here we describe a mouse model fo ...

Nature Publishing Group2012

A MART-1::Cre transgenic line induces recombination in melanocytes and RPE

Friedrich Beermann, Iraz Toprak Aydin

The number of transgenic mouse lines expressing Cre in either type of pigment cells (melanocytes and retinal pigment epithelium, RPE) is limited, and the available lines do not always offer sufficient specificity. In this study, we addressed this issue and ...

2011

BlastR-fast and accurate database searches for non-coding RNAs

Philipp Bucher

We present and validate BlastR, a method for efficiently and accurately searching non-coding RNAs. Our approach relies on the comparison of di-nucleotides using BlosumR, a new log-odd substitution matrix. In order to use BlosumR for comparison, we recoded ...

Oxford University Press2011

A systematic enhancer screen using lentivector transgenesis identifies conserved and non-conserved functional elements at the olig1 and olig2 locus

Didier Trono, Denis Duboule, Isabelle Barde, Sonia Verp, Marc Samuel Friedli, Jozsef Zakany

Finding sequences that control expression of genes is central to understanding genome function. Previous studies have used evolutionary conservation as an indicator of regulatory potential. Here, we present a method for the unbiased in vivo screen of putat ...

Public Library of Science2010

Analysis of the Pigment Cell Specific Gene MART-1/Melan-A/mlana

Iraz Toprak Aydin

Pigmentation is a complex process that provides many diverse benefits for the organism. Pigment production takes place in the pigment cell lineage in dedicated organelles called melanosomes. Several proteins are specifically recruited to melanosomes for th ...

EPFL2010

Regulation of DHICA-mediated antioxidation by dopachrome tautomerase: Implication for skin photoprotection against UVA radiation

Friedrich Beermann

Dopachrome tautomerase (Dct) is a critical enzyme in the melanogenesis pathway that isomerizes the intermediate dopachrome to 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) and influences the proportion of DHICA monomer incorporated into the 5,6-dihydroxyin ...

Elsevier2010

Long-range enhancer-promoter interactions in the HoxD complex

Denis Duboule

Collinear expression of 5′ Hoxd genes during mammalian limb development is required to properly determine digits number and identity. We recently proposed a two-step model to account for the underlying regulatory mechanism, which involves an initial loopin ...

Elsevier Science BV2009

Conserved elements within open reading frames of mammalian Hox genes

Denis Duboule

A recent study in BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that many of the open reading frames in mammalian Hox genes are more conserved than expected on the basis of their protein sequence. The presence of highly conserved DNA elements is thus not confined to the ...

2009

Palladium-catalyzed annulation of acyloximes with arynes (or alkynes): synthesis of phenanthridines and isoquinolines

Jieping Zhu

A palladium-catalyzed domino aminopalladation/C-H functionalization sequence has been developed, and provides access to functionalized phenanthridines and isoquinolines. The use of butyronitrile as the solvent is determinant to the success of the domino pr ...

2009

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