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The role of the acquired immune response in systemic sclerosis

Chizzolini, Carlo ; Boin, Francesco

In: Seminars in Immunopathology, 2015, vol. 37, no. 5, p. 519-528

Université de Fribourg

Conserved functions of ether lipids and sphingolipids in the early secretory pathway

Jiménez-Rojo, Noemi ; Leonetti, Manuel D. ; Zoni, Valeria ; Colom, Adai ; Feng, Suihan ; Iyengar, Namrata R. ; Matile, Stefan ; Roux, Aurélien ; Vanni, Stefano ; Weissman, Jonathan S. ; Riezman, Howard

In: Current Biology, 2020, vol. 30, no. 19, p. 3775-3787.e7

Sphingolipids play important roles in physiology and cell biology, but a systematic examination of their functions is lacking. We performed a genome-wide CRISPRi screen in sphingolipid-depleted human cells and identified hypersensitive mutants in genes of membrane trafficking and lipid biosynthesis, including ether lipid synthesis. Systematic lipidomic analysis showed a coordinate regulation...

Université de Fribourg

Admixture mapping in interspecific Populus hybrids identifies classes of genomic architectures for phytochemical, morphological and growth traits

Bresadola, Luisa ; Caseys, Céline ; Castiglione, Stefano ; Buerkle, C. Alex ; Wegmann, Daniel ; Lexer, Christian

In: New Phytologist, 2019, vol. 223, no. 4, p. 2076–2089

The genomic architecture of functionally important traits is key to understanding the maintenance of reproductive barriers and trait differences when divergent populations or species hybridize. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to study trait architecture in natural hybrids of two ecologically divergent Populus species. We genotyped 472 seedlings from a natural hybrid zone...

Université de Fribourg

Multilevel regulation of the glass locus during Drosophila eye development

Fritsch, Cornelia ; Bernardo-Garcia, F. Javier ; Humberg, Tim-Henning ; Mishra, Abhishek Kumar ; Miellet, Sara ; Almeida, Silvia ; Frochaux, Michael V. ; Deplancke, Bart ; Huber, Armin ; Sprecher, Simon G.

In: PLOS Genetics, 2019, vol. 15, no. 7, p. e1008269

Development of eye tissue is initiated by a conserved set of transcription factors termed retinal determination network (RDN). In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zinc-finger transcription factor Glass acts directly downstream of the RDN to control identity of photoreceptor as well as non-photoreceptor cells. Tight control of spatial and temporal gene expression is a critical...

Università della Svizzera italiana

T regulatory cells are markers of disease activity in multiple sclerosis patients

Dalla Libera, Dacia ; Di Mitri, Diletta ; Bergami, Alessandra ; Centonze, Diego ; Gasperini, Claudio ; Grasso, Maria Grazia ; Galgani, Simona ; Martinelli, Vittorio ; Comi, Giancarlo ; Avolio, Carlo ; Martino, Gianvito ; Borsellino, Giovanna ; Sallusto, Federica ; Battistini,Luca ; Furlan, Roberto

In: Plos one, 2011, vol. 6, no. 6, p. e21386

FoxP3+ Treg cells are believed to play a role in the occurrence of autoimmunity and in the determination of clinical recurrences. Contradictory reports are, however, available describing frequency and function of Treg cells during autoimmune diseases. We examined, by both polychromatic flow cytometry, and real-time RT-PCR, several Treg markers in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from...

Université de Fribourg

The case of GWAS of obesity: does body weight control play by the rules?

Müller, Manfred J. ; Geisler, Corinna ; Blundell, John ; Dulloo, Abdul G. ; Schutz, Yves ; Krawczak, Michael ; Bosy-Westphal, Anja ; Enderle, Janna ; Heymsfield, Steven B.

In: International Journal of Obesity, 2018, vol. 42, no. 8, p. 1395–1405

As yet, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have not added much to our understanding of the mechanisms of body weight control and of the etiology of obesity. This shortcoming is widely attributed to the complexity of the issues. The appeal of this explanation notwithstanding, we surmise that (i) an oversimplification of the phenotype (namely by the use of crude anthropometric traits) and...