Marie Curie Research Training Network TAF-Chromatin

Study of the ordered interactions of different transcription factors
that generate infinite potential to regulate gene expression

List of collaborative publications directly resulting from the project
(First Reporting Period)

Szutorisz H., Canzonetta C.,Georgiou A., Chow C.-M., Tora L. and Dillon N. (2005) Formation of an active tissue-specific chromatin domain initiated by epigenetic marking at the embryonic stem cell stage. Mol. Cell. Biol., 25, 1804-1820

Pankotai T., Komonyi O., Bodai L., Újfaludi Zs., Moratoglu S., Ciurciu A., Tora L., Szabad J., Boros.I. (2005) The homologous Drosophila transcriptional adaptors ADA2a and ADA2b are both required for normal development, but have different functions. Mol. Cell. Biol., 25, 8215-27..

Szutorisz H., Dillon N. and Tora L. (2005) The role of enhancers as centres for general transcription factor recruitment. TIBS. in press.

List of publications generated during the first reporting period:

Soutoglou E., Demény M.A, Scheer E., Fienga G., Sassone-Corsi P. and Tora L. (2005) The nuclear import of TAF10 is regulated by one of its three histone fold domain containing interaction partners. Mol. Cell. Biol., 25, 4092-4104.

Frontini M., Soutoglou E., Argentini M., Bole-Feysot C., Jost B., Scheer E. and Tora L. (2005) TAF9b (formerly TAF9L) is a bona fide TAF that has unique and overlapping roles with TAF9. Mol. Cell. Biol., 25, 4638-4649.

Drosopoulos, C. Roberts , M., Cermak, L., Sasazuki , T., Shirasawa, S., Andera L. and Pintzas, A. (2005). Oncogenic Ras transformation sensitizes human colon cancer cells to TRAIL induced apoptosis by upregulating DR4 and DR5 receptors through a MEK dependent pathway. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 22856-22867.

Roberts, M., Drosopoulos, K., Vasileiou, I., Stricker, M., Taoufik E., Maercker, C., Guialis, A., Alexis, MN. and Pintzas, A. (2005). Microarray analysis of the differential transformation mediated by kirsten and harvey ras oncogenes in a human colon adenocarcinoma cell line. Int. J. Cancer 118, In press.

Shao H, Revach M, Moshonov S, Tzuman Y, Gazit K, Albeck S, Unger T, Dikstein R. (2005) Core promoter binding by histone-like TAF complexes. Mol. Cell. Biol; 25, 206-19.

Papai G, Komonyi O, Toth Z, Pankotai T, Muratoglu S, Udvardy A, Boros I. (2005) Intimate relationship between the genes of two transcriptional coactivators, ADA2a and PIMT, of Drosophila. Gene. 348:13-23.

Komonyi O, Papai G, Enunlu I, Muratoglu S, Pankotai T, Kopitova D, Maroy P, Udvardy A, Boros I. (2005) DTL, the Drosophila homolog of PIMT/Tgs1 nuclear receptor coactivator-interacting protein/RNA methyltransferase, has an essential role in development. J Biol Chem. 280(13):12397-404.

Minaee S, Farmer D, Georgiou A, Sabbattini P, Webster Z, Chow CM, Dillon N. (2005) Mapping and functional analysis of regulatory sequences in the mouse lambda5-VpreB1 domain. Mol Immunol. 11:1283-92.

Chow CM, Georgiou A, Szutorisz H, Maia e Silva A, Pombo A, Barahona I, Dargelos E, Canzonetta C, Dillon N. (2005) Variant histone H3.3 marks promoters of transcriptionally active genes during mammalian cell division. EMBO Rep. 4,:354-60.

(ESRs, ERs and PIs are shown in bold)

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