2016
PNAS
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibition restores Ca2+ release defects and prolongs survival in myotubularin-deficient mice
Candice Kutchukian, Mirella Lo Scrudato, Yves Tourneur, Karine Poulard, Alban Vignaud, Christine Berthier, Bruno Allard, Michael W. Lawlor, Ana Buj-Bello, and Vincent Jacquemond
Myotubular myopathy is a fatal disease resulting from deficiency in the phosphoinositide phosphatase MTM1. Kutchukian et al. (2016) have now identified critical pathophysiological alterations of Ca2+ signaling which are involved in the disease and have revealed the benefit of a pharmacological treatment.
Molecular Cell
The Flexible Ends of CENP-A Nucleosome Are Required for Mitotic Fidelity.
Roulland Y, Ouararhni K, Naidenov M, Ramos L, Shuaib M, Syed SH, Lone IN, Boopathi R, Fontaine E, Papai G, Tachiwana H, Gautier T, Skoufias D, Padmanabhan K, Bednar J, Kurumizaka H, Schultz P, *Angelov D, *Hamiche A, *Dimitrov S.
CENP-A nucleosomal ends are highly flexible in solution, which prevents recruitment of the linker histone H1 thus allowing assembly of active kinetochore complex. Open CENP-A nucleosomal structure is essential for its mitotic function.
IMMUNITY Communiqué de presse du CNRS Science & santé
Macrophage PPARgamma, a Lipid Activated Transcription Factor Controls the Growth Factor GDF3 and Skeletal Muscle Regeneration.
Tamas Varga, Rémi Mounier, Andreas Patsalos, Péter Gogolák, Matthew Peloquin, Attila Horvath, Attila Pap, Bence Daniel, Gergely Nagy, Eva Pintye, Szilárd Poliska, Sylvain Cuvellier, Sabrina Ben Larbi, Brian E. Sansbury, Matthew Spite, Chester W. Brown, Bénédicte Chazaud, Laszlo Nagy
PPARγ is a lipid activated transcription factor essential for fat cells and linked to lipid processing in macrophages. Varga et al. (2016) now show that PPARγ is transcriptionally active and regulates the growth factor Gdf3 in repair macrophages in regenerating skeletal muscle, forming a paracrine axis connecting macrophages to muscle progenitor fusion.
Chromatin associated mechanisms in base excision repair – nucleosome remodeling and DNA transcription, two key players.
Menoni H, Di Mascio P, Cadet J, Dimitrov S, Angelov D.
Free Radic Biol Med 2016 Dec 20. pii: S0891-5849(16)31126-1.
Evidence for ARGONAUTE4-DNA interactions in RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants.
Lahmy S, Pontier D, Bies-Etheve N, Laudié M, Feng S, Jobet E, Hale CJ, Cooke R, Hakimi MA, Angelov D, Jacobsen SE, Lagrange T.
Extra views on Structure and dynamics of DNA loops on nucleosomes studied with molecular simulations.
Pasi M, Angelov D, Bednar J, Dimitrov S, Lavery R
Real-Time Tracking of Parental Histones Reveals Their Contribution to Chromatin Integrity Following DNA Damage.
Salomé Adam, Juliette Dabin, Odile Chevallier, Olivier Leroy, Céline Baldeyron, Armelle Corpet, Patrick Lomonte, Olivier Renaud, Geneviève Almouzni, and Sophie E. Polo
Extra views on Structure and dynamics of DNA loops on nucleosomes studied with molecular simulations.
Pasi M, Angelov D, Bednar J, Dimitrov S, Lavery R
Latency Entry of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Is Determined by the Interaction of Its Genome with the Nuclear Environment.
Mohamed Ali Maroui, Aleth Callé , Camille Cohen, Nathalie Streichenberger, Pascale Texier, Julie Takissian, Antoine Rousseau, Nolwenn Poccardi, Jérémy Welsch, Armelle Corpet, Laurent Schaeffer, Marc Labetoulle, Patrick Lomonte
mTOR inactivation in myocardium from infant mice rapidly leads to dilated cardiomyopathy due to translation defects and p53/JNK-mediated apoptosis.
Laetitia Mazelin, Baptiste Panthu, Anne-Sophie Nicot, Edwige Belotti, Lionel Tintignac, Geoffrey Teixeira, Qing Zhang, Valérie Risson, Dominique Baas, Emilie Delaune, Geneviève Derumeaux, Daniel Taillandier, Théophile Ohlmann, Michel Ovize, Yann-Gaël Gangloff, Laurent Schaeffer
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2016 Aug;97:213-25.