LINE-1 RNA causes heterochromatin erosion and is a target for amelioration of senescent phenotypes in progeroid syndromes

F Della Valle, P Reddy, M Yamamoto, P Liu… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
Constitutive heterochromatin is responsible for genome repression of DNA enriched in
repetitive sequences, telomeres, and centromeres. During physiological and pathological …

The molecular and cellular basis of Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome and potential treatments

NJ Batista, SG Desai, AM Perez, A Finkelstein… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare, autosomal-dominant, and fatal
premature aging syndrome. HGPS is most often derived from a de novo point mutation in the …

The needle and the haystack: single molecule tracking to probe the transcription factor search in eukaryotes

M Mazzocca, T Fillot, A Loffreda… - Biochemical Society …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate transcription of their target genes by identifying and
binding to regulatory regions of the genome among billions of potential non-specific decoy …

Tissue fluidification promotes a cGAS–STING cytosolic DNA response in invasive breast cancer

E Frittoli, A Palamidessi, F Iannelli, F Zanardi, S Villa… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
The process in which locally confined epithelial malignancies progressively evolve into
invasive cancers is often promoted by unjamming, a phase transition from a solid-like to a …

Pediatric glioma histone H3. 3 K27M/G34R mutations drive abnormalities in PML nuclear bodies

HPJ Voon, L Hii, A Garvie, M Udugama, B Krug… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Point mutations in histone variant H3. 3 (H3. 3K27M, H3. 3G34R) and the H3. 3-
specific ATRX/DAXX chaperone complex are frequent events in pediatric gliomas. These …

ALFI: Cell cycle phenotype annotations of label-free time-lapse imaging data from cultured human cells

L Antonelli, F Polverino, A Albu, A Hada, IA Asteriti… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Detecting and tracking multiple moving objects in a video is a challenging task. For living
cells, the task becomes even more arduous as cells change their morphology over time, can …

Artificial intelligence for cell segmentation, event detection, and tracking for label-free microscopy imaging

L Maddalena, L Antonelli, A Albu, A Hada… - Algorithms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Time-lapse microscopy imaging is a key approach for an increasing number of
biological and biomedical studies to observe the dynamic behavior of cells over time which …

MATR3‐antisense LINE1 RNA meshwork scaffolds higher‐order chromatin organization

Y Zhang, X Cao, Z Gao, X Ma, Q Wang, X Xu, X Cai… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) play essential roles in shaping chromatin
states, while the factors that cooperate with LINEs and their roles in higher‐order chromatin …

Biology and model predictions of the dynamics and heterogeneity of chromatin-nuclear lamina interactions

J Madsen-Østerbye, A Bellanger… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Associations of chromatin with the nuclear lamina, at the nuclear periphery, help shape the
genome in 3 dimensions. The genomic landscape of lamina-associated domains (LADs) is …

Disorganized chromatin hierarchy and stem cell aging in a male patient of atypical laminopathy-based progeria mandibuloacral dysplasia type A

W Jin, S Jiang, X Liu, Y He, T Li, J Ma, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Studies of laminopathy-based progeria offer insights into aging-associated diseases and
highlight the role of LMNA in chromatin organization. Mandibuloacral dysplasia type A …