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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Laura CiapponiSummaryAffiliation: University of Rome La Sapienza Country: Italy Publications
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An essential function of AP-1 heterodimers in Drosophila developmentLaura Ciapponi
Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Mech Dev 115:35-40. 2002..We conclude that Jun and Fos play complementary roles that are both required for signal transduction and gene activation during dorsal closure...
Telomere capping and cellular checkpoints: clues from fruit fliesL Ciapponi
Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Cytogenet Genome Res 122:365-73. 2008..These results indicate that the DNA repair systems play multiple roles at Drosophila telomeres, highlighting the importance of this model organism for investigations on the relationships between DNA repair and telomere maintenance...
The mechanism of telomere protection: a comparison between Drosophila and humansGiovanni Cenci
Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale A Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Chromosoma 114:135-45. 2005..We believe that the molecular characterization of these genes will lead to identification of many novel human genes with roles in telomere maintenance...
Terminin: a protein complex that mediates epigenetic maintenance of Drosophila telomeresGrazia D Raffa
Istituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Sapienza, Universita di Roma, Ple A Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
Nucleus 2:383-91. 2011..Based on these findings, we propose that concomitant with telomerase loss Drosophila rapidly evolved terminin to bind chromosome ends in a sequence-independent fashion, and that terminin is functionally analogous to shelterin...
Effects of IL-6 variants in multiple myeloma: growth inhibition and induction of apoptosis in primary cellsMaria Teresa Petrucci
Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari ed Ematologia, Universita La Sapienza, Via Benevento 6, 00161 Roma, Italy
Leuk Lymphoma 43:2369-75. 2002..Such effects may depend on the availability of large amounts of soluble IL-6R. Further studies should aim at defining the conditions necessary for optimal antiproliferative activity...
The Drosophila Mre11/Rad50 complex is required to prevent both telomeric fusion and chromosome breakageLaura Ciapponi
Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy
Curr Biol 14:1360-6. 2004..This suggests that the MRN complex protects Drosophila telomeres by facilitating recruitment of HOAP and HP1 at chromosome ends...
Identification of Drosophila mitotic genes by combining co-expression analysis and RNA interferenceMaria Patrizia Somma
Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Rome, Italy
PLoS Genet 4:e1000126. 2008..We can foresee that elaboration of co-expression lists using genes in the same phenocluster will provide many candidate genes for small-scale RNAi screens aimed at completing the inventory of mitotic proteins...
The Drosophila Nbs protein functions in multiple pathways for the maintenance of genome stabilityLaura Ciapponi
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Universita di Lecce, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Genetics 173:1447-54. 2006..In contrast, analysis of chromosome breakage indicated that the three components of the MRN complex function in a single pathway for the repair of the DNA damage leading to chromosome aberrations...
Unprotected Drosophila melanogaster telomeres activate the spindle assembly checkpointMariarosaria Musarò
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali DiSTeBA, Universita del Salento, Lecce 73100, Italy
Nat Genet 40:362-6. 2008..Our results collectively suggest that recruitment of BubR1 by dysfunctional telomeres inhibits Cdc20-APC function, preventing the metaphase-to-anaphase transition...
