The art of packaging the sperm genome: molecular and structural basis of the histone-to-protamine exchange

L Moritz, SS Hammoud - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Male fertility throughout life hinges on the successful production of motile sperm, a
developmental process that involves three coordinated transitions: mitosis, meiosis, and …

Supercharging BRD4 with NUT in carcinoma

KP Eagen, CA French - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
NUT carcinoma (NC) is an extremely aggressive squamous cancer with no effective therapy.
NC is driven, most commonly, by the BRD4-NUT fusion oncoprotein. BRD4-NUT combines …

Structural mechanism of BRD4-NUT and p300 bipartite interaction in propagating aberrant gene transcription in chromatin in NUT carcinoma

D Yu, Y Liang, C Kim, A Jaganathan, D Ji… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
BRD4-NUT, a driver fusion mutant in rare and highly aggressive NUT carcinoma, acts in
aberrant transcription of anti-differentiation genes by recruiting histone acetyltransferase …

Sperm chromatin structure and reproductive fitness are altered by substitution of a single amino acid in mouse protamine 1

L Moritz, SB Schon, M Rabbani, Y Sheng… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Conventional dogma presumes that protamine-mediated DNA compaction in sperm is
achieved by electrostatic interactions between DNA and the arginine-rich core of …

Report of the first international symposium on NUT carcinoma

CA French, ML Cheng, GJ Hanna, SG DuBois… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
NUT carcinoma is a rare, aggressive cancer defined by rearrangements of the NUTM1 gene.
No routinely effective treatments of NUT carcinoma exist, despite harboring a targetable …

NUT is a specific immunohistochemical marker for the diagnosis of YAP1-NUTM1-rearranged cutaneous poroid neoplasms

N Macagno, T Kervarrec, P Sohier… - The American Journal …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
YAP1-NUTM1 fusion transcripts have been recently reported in poroma and porocarcinoma.
NUTM1 translocation can be screened by nuclear protein in testis (NUT) …

Insights into the sperm chromatin and implications for male infertility from a protein perspective

A de la Iglesia, M Jodar, R Oliva… - WIREs Mechanisms of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Male germ cells undergo an extreme but fascinating process of chromatin remodeling that
begins in the testis during the last phase of spermatogenesis and continues through …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleosomes in mammalian sperm: conveying paternal epigenetic inheritance or subject to reprogramming between generations?

L Gaspa-Toneu, AHFM Peters - Current Opinion in Genetics & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The genome of mammalian sperm is largely packaged by sperm-specific proteins termed
protamines. The presence of some residual nucleosomes has, however, emerged as a …

Gene fusions in poroma, porocarcinoma and related adnexal skin tumours: An update

T Kervarrec, D Pissaloux, F Tirode… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Poroma is a benign sweat gland tumour showing morphological features recapitulating the
superficial portion of the eccrine sweat coil. A subset of poromas may transform into …

Metabolically controlled histone H4K5 acylation/acetylation ratio drives BRD4 genomic distribution

M Gao, J Wang, S Rousseaux, M Tan, L Pan, L Peng… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
In addition to acetylation, histones are modified by a series of competing longer-chain
acylations. Most of these acylation marks are enriched and co-exist with acetylation on …