Search Results - "Rancati, Giulia"
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Aneuploidy and chromosomal instability in cancer: a jackpot to chaos
Published in Cell division (20-05-2015)“…Genomic instability (GIN) is a hallmark of cancer cells that facilitates the acquisition of mutations conferring aggressive or drug-resistant phenotypes during…”
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Experimental evolution of a fungal pathogen into a gut symbiont
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-11-2018)“…Gut microbes live in symbiosis with their hosts, but how mutualistic animal-microbe interactions emerge is not understood. By adaptively evolving the…”
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Recruitment of the mitotic exit network to yeast centrosomes couples septin displacement to actomyosin constriction
Published in Nature communications (17-10-2018)“…In many eukaryotic organisms cytokinesis is driven by a contractile actomyosin ring (CAR) that guides membrane invagination. What triggers CAR constriction at…”
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The Mutator Phenotype: Adapting Microbial Evolution to Cancer Biology
Published in Frontiers in genetics (06-08-2019)“…The mutator phenotype hypothesis was postulated almost 40 years ago to reconcile the observation that while cancer cells display widespread mutational burden,…”
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Karyotypic determinants of chromosome instability in aneuploid budding yeast
Published in PLoS genetics (01-05-2012)“…Recent studies in cancer cells and budding yeast demonstrated that aneuploidy, the state of having abnormal chromosome numbers, correlates with elevated…”
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The Greatwall kinase safeguards the genome integrity by affecting the kinome activity in mitosis
Published in Oncogene (29-10-2020)“…Progression through mitosis is balanced by the timely regulation of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation events ensuring the correct segregation of…”
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Transcriptome analysis of tetraploid cells identifies cyclin D2 as a facilitator of adaptation to genome doubling in the presence of p53
Published in Molecular biology of the cell (15-10-2016)“…Tetraploidization, or genome doubling, is a prominent event in tumorigenesis, primarily because cell division in polyploid cells is error-prone and produces…”
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Meeting Report: Experimental and Evolutionary Approaches to Yeast and Other Organisms 2018
Published in G3 : genes - genomes - genetics (01-03-2019)“…The 2018 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Experimental and Evolutionary Approaches to Yeast and Other Organisms conference brought together…”
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New perspectives on the role of biological factors in anorexia nervosa: Brain volume reduction or oxidative stress, which came first?
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-09-2024)“…Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder (ED) that has seen an increase in its incidence in the last thirty years. Compared to other psychosomatic…”
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Characterization of a panARS-based episomal vector in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris for recombinant protein production and synthetic biology applications
Published in Microbial cell factories (11-08-2016)“…Recombinant protein production in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris largely relies on integrative vectors. Although the stability of integrated…”
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Long-Term Culture of Self-renewing Pancreatic Progenitors Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Published in Stem cell reports (06-06-2017)“…Pluripotent stem cells have been proposed as an unlimited source of pancreatic β cells for studying and treating diabetes. However, the long, multi-step…”
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Chromosomal instability-induced senescence potentiates cell non-autonomous tumourigenic effects
Published in Oncogenesis (New York, NY) (15-08-2018)“…Chromosomal instability (CIN), a high rate of chromosome loss or gain, is often associated with poor prognosis and drug resistance in cancers. Aneuploid,…”
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Accumulation of Mad2-Cdc20 complex during spindle checkpoint activation requires binding of open and closed conformers of Mad2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Published in The Journal of cell biology (03-07-2006)“…The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) coordinates mitotic progression with sister chromatid alignment. In mitosis, the checkpoint machinery accumulates at…”
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Cancer: a CINful evolution
Published in Current opinion in cell biology (01-06-2018)“…Pioneering studies described cancer as an evolutionary process and detailed its intratumor heterogeneity in patients’ specimens. The development of unbiased…”
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A Chemically Defined Feeder-free System for the Establishment and Maintenance of the Human Naive Pluripotent State
Published in Stem cell reports (08-10-2019)“…The distinct states of pluripotency in the pre- and post-implantation embryo can be captured in vitro as naive and primed pluripotent stem cell cultures,…”
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Mad3/BubR1 Phosphorylation during Spindle Checkpoint Activation Depends on both Polo and Aurora Kinases in Budding Yeast
Published in Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) (01-07-2005)“…During mitosis the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) delays the onset of anaphase and mitotic exit until all chromosomes are bipolarly attached to spindle…”
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Adaptive Evolution: Don’t Fix What’s Broken
Published in Current biology (22-02-2016)“…Evolution of budding yeast after the removal of an important component of the polarization machinery, BEM1, followed reproducible evolutionary trajectories…”
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: role of aneuploidy in cellular adaptation and cancer
Published in Current opinion in cell biology (01-12-2010)“…When cells in our body change their genome and develop into cancer, we blame it on genome instability. When novel species conquer inhospitable environments, we…”
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The conditional nature of gene essentiality
Published in Current opinion in genetics & development (01-10-2019)“…Essential genes are classically defined as required for cellular viability and reproductive success. Despite this deceptively simple definition, several lines…”
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Emerging and evolving concepts in gene essentiality
Published in Nature reviews. Genetics (01-01-2018)“…Key Points A gene is considered essential if it is required for the reproductive success of a cell or an organism. Gene essentiality is a core concept of…”
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