• Activation-induced chromatin reorganization in neurons depends on HDAC1 activity 

      Grabowska, Agnieszka; Sas-Nowosielska, Hanna; Wojtas, Bartosz; Holm-Kaczmarek, Dagmara; Januszewicz, Elzbieta; Yushkevich, Yana; Czaban, Iwona; Trzaskoma, Pawel; Krawczyk, Katarzyna; Gielniewski, Bartlomiej; Martin-Gonzalez, Ana; Filipkowski, Robert Kuba; Olszynski, Krzysztof Hubert; Bernas, Tytus; Szczepankiewicz, Andrzej Antoni; Sliwinska, Malgorzata Alicja; Kanhema, Tambudzai; Bramham, Clive Raymond Evjen; Bokota, Grzegorz; Plewczynski, Dariusz; Wilczynski, Grzegorz Marek; Magalska, Adriana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Spatial chromatin organization is crucial for transcriptional regulation and might be particularly important in neurons since they dramatically change their transcriptome in response to external stimuli. We show that ...
    • Autocrine activation of MAPK signaling mediates intrinsic tolerance to androgen deprivation in LY6D prostate cancer cells 

      Steiner, Ivana; Flores-Tellez, Teresita del N.J.; Mevel, Renaud; Ali, Amin; Wang, Pengbo; Schofield, Pieta; Behan, Caron; Forsythe, Nicholas; Ashton, Garry; Taylor, Catherine; Mills, Ian Geoffrey; Oliveira, Pedro; McDade, Simon S.; Zaiss, Dietmar M.; Choudhury, Ananya; Lacaud, Georges; Baena, Esther (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The emergence of castration-resistant prostate cancer remains an area of unmet clinical need. We recently identified a subpopulation of normal prostate progenitor cells, characterized by an intrinsic resistance to androgen ...
    • Base excision repair causes age-dependent accumulation of single-stranded DNA breaks that contribute to Parkinson disease pathology 

      SenGupta, Tanima; Palikaras, Konstantinos; Esbensen, Ying Q.; Konstantinidis, Georgios; Galindo, Francisco Jose Naranjo; Achanta, Kavya; Kassahun, Henok; Stavgiannoudaki, Ioanna; Bohr, Vilhelm A.; Akbari, Mansour; Gaare, Johannes; Tzoulis, Charalampos; Tavernarakis, Nektarios; Nilsen, Hilde (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Aging, genomic stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction are risk factors for neurodegenerative pathologies, such as Parkinson disease (PD). Although genomic instability is associated with aging and mitochondrial impairment, ...
    • Loss-of-function variants in the schizophrenia risk gene SETD1A alter neuronal network activity in human neurons through the cAMP/PKA pathway 

      Wang, Shan; Rhijn, Jon-Ruben van; Akkouh, Ibrahim Ahmed; Kogo, Naoki; Maas, Nadine; Bleeck, Anna; Ortiz, Irene Santisteban; Lewerissa, Elly; Wu, Ka Man; Schoenmaker, Chantal; Djurovic, Srdjan; van Bokhoven, Hans; Kleefstra, Tjitske; Nadif Kasri, Nael; Schubert, Dirk (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Heterozygous loss-of-function (LoF) mutations in SETD1A, which encodes a subunit of histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase, cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome and increase the risk for schizophrenia. Using CRISPR-Cas9, we ...
    • NvPOU4/Brain3 Functions as a Terminal Selector Gene in the Nervous System of the Cnidarian Nematostella vectensis 

      Tourniere, Oceane Barbara; Dolan, David William Peter; Richards, Gemma Sian; Sunagar, Kartik; Columbus-Shenkar, Yaara Y; Moran, Yehu; Rentzsch, Fabian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03)
      Terminal selectors are transcription factors that control the morphological, physiological, and molecular features that characterize distinct cell types. Here, we show that, in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, NvPOU4 ...
    • OXR1A, a Coactivator of PRMT5 Regulating Histone Arginine Methylation 

      Yang, Mingyi; Lin, Xiaolin; Segers, Filip; Suganthan, Rajikala; Hildrestrand, Gunn Annette; Rinholm, Johanne Egge; Aas, Per Arne; Sousa, Mirta; Holm, Sverre; Bolstad, Nils; Warren, David; Berge, Rolf Kristian; Johansen, Rune Forstrøm; Yndestad, Arne; Kristiansen, Elise; Klungland, Arne; Gomez, Luisa Fernanda Luna; Eide, Lars; Halvorsen, Bente; Aukrust, Pål; Bjørås, Magnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Oxidation resistance gene 1 (OXR1) protects cells against oxidative stress. We find that male mice with brain-specific isoform A knockout (Oxr1A−/−) develop fatty liver. RNA sequencing of male Oxr1A−/− liver indicates ...
    • The Parkinson's-disease-associated mutation LRRK2-G2019S alters dopaminergic differentiation dynamics via NR2F1 

      Walter, Jonas; Bolognin, Silvia; Poovathingal, Suresh K.; Magni, Stefano; Gérard, Deborah; Antony, Paul M. A.; Nickels, Sarah L.; Salamanca, Luis; Berger, Emanuel; Smits, Lisa M.; Grzyb, Kamil; Perfeito, Rita; Hoel, Fredrik; Qing, Xiaobing; Ohnmacht, Jochen; Bertacchi, Michele; Jarazo, Javier; Ignac, Tomasz; Monzel, Anna S.; Gonzalez-Cano, Laura; Krüger, Rejko; Sauter, Thomas; Studer, Michèle; Pereira de Almeida, Luis; Tronstad, Karl Johan; Sinkkonen, Lasse; Skupin, Alexander; Schwamborn, Jens C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Increasing evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental alterations might contribute to increase the susceptibility to develop neurodegenerative diseases. We investigate the occurrence of developmental abnormalities in ...
    • PARP-inhibition reprograms macrophages toward an anti-tumor phenotype 

      Wang, Lin; Wang, Dan; Sonzogni, Olmo; Ke, Shizhong; Wang, Qi; Thavamani, Abhishek; Batalini, Felipe; Stopka, Sylwia A.; Regan, Michael S.; Vandal, Steven; Tian, Shengya; Pinto, Jocelin; Cyr, Andrew M.; Bret-Mounet, Vanessa C.; Baquer, Gerard; Eikesdal, Hans Petter; Yuan, Min; Asara, John M.; Heng, Yujing J.; Bai, Peter; Agar, Nathalie Y.R.; Wulf, Gerburg M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Poly(ADP)ribosylation inhibitors (PARPis) are toxic to cancer cells with homologous recombination (HR) deficiency but not to HR-proficient cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME), including tumor-associated macrophages ...
    • Tumor-Derived Lactic Acid Contributes to the Paucity of Intratumoral ILC2s 

      Wagner, Marek; Ealey, Kafi N; Tetsu, Hiroe; Kiniwa, Tsuyoshi; Motomura, Yasutaka; Moro, Kazuyo; Koyasu, Shigeo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) are abundant in non-lymphoid tissues and increase following infectious and inflammatory insults. In solid tumors, however, ILC2s constitute a relatively small proportion of immune ...