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Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are essential for the repression of key factors during early development. In Drosophila, the polycomb repressive complexes (PRC) associate with defined polycomb response DNA elements (PREs). In mammals, however, the mechanisms ...

Public Library of Science2013

TRIM28 repression of retrotransposon-based enhancers is necessary to preserve transcriptional dynamics in embryonic stem cells

Didier Trono, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Andrea Corsinotti, Helen Mary Rowe, Johan Jakobsson

TRIM28 is critical for the silencing of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in embryonic stem (ES) cells. Here, we reveal that an essential impact of this process is the protection of cellular gene expression in early embryos from perturbation by cis-acting act ...

2013

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Highly coordinated transcription networks orchestrate the self-renewal of pluripotent stem cell and the earliest steps of mammalian development. KRAB-containing zinc finger proteins represent the largest group of transcription factors encoded by the genome ...

Public Library of Science2013

An emerging model views gene regulation as a competition for regulatory sequences between transcription factors and nucleosomes at thermodynamic equilibrium. A computational model of the DNA affinity of nucleosomes was recently developed allowing to predic ...

2010

SOX2 is an oncogene activated by recurrent 3q26.3 amplifications in human lung squamous cell carcinomas

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung is a frequent and aggressive cancer type. Gene amplifications, a known activating mechanism of oncogenes, target the 3q26-qter region as one of the most frequently gained/amplified genomic sites in SCC of various t ...

Public Library of Science2010

KAP1 controls endogenous retroviruses in embryonic stem cells

Didier Trono, Daniel Constam, Jacques Rougemont, Sonia Verp, Séverine Reynard, Helen Mary Rowe, Johan Jakobsson, Pierre Maillard, Hillary Layard-Liesching

More than forty per cent of the mammalian genome is derived from retroelements, of which about one-quarter are endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). Some are still active, notably in mice the highly polymorphic early transposon (ETn)/MusD and intracisternal A-ty ...

Nature Publishing Group2010

The Ash1L methyltransferase is essential for normal hematopoiesis in the mouse

Histones have essential functions in the regulation of gene expression through epigenetic modifications of their N-terminal tails. Acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitination and other post-translational histone modifications constitute a com ...

2010

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Hox genes encode transcription factors that play a central role in the specification of regional identities along the anterior to posterior body axis. In the developing mouse embryo, Hox genes from all four genomic clusters are involved in range of develop ...

Elsevier2010

Genotypic features of lentivirus transgenic mice

Didier Trono, Denis Duboule, Felix Naef, Frédéric Schütz, Marc-Olivier Sauvain

Lentivector-mediated transgenesis is increasingly used, whether for basic studies as an alternative to pronuclear injection of naked DNA or to test candidate gene therapy vectors. In an effort to characterize the genetic features of this approach, we first ...

American Society for Microbiology2008

Epigenetic regulation of Hox gene activation: the waltz of methyls

Denis Duboule

Genetic studies have revealed that the antagonistic interplay between PcG and TrxG/MLL complexes is essential for the proper maintenance of vertebrate Hox gene expression in time and space. Hox genes must be silenced in totipotent embryonic stem cells and, ...

2008