Friday, 16 August 2013

Possible new avenues for gene therapy via enhancer RNAs

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Postdoctoral Researcher Minna U. Kaikkonen at A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland was one of the two lead authors of the current study, carried out under Professor Christopher Glass. Dr Kaikkonen completed her post doc study in Professor Glass' research group at the University of California, San Diego in 2009. Besides Dr Kaikkonen, the UEF contributors to the earlier study from June also include Postdoctoral Researcher Hanna P. Lesch.

The main funders of the study are Fondation Leducq, Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, the Academy of Finland, ASLA Fulbright, the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, the Finnish Cultural Foundation (North Savo Regional Fund), Orion-Farmos Research Foundation and the US National Institutes of Health grants DK091183, CA17390, and DK063491.

Research article in Molecular Cell:

Remodeling of the Enhancer Landscape during Macrophage Activation Is Coupled to Enhancer Transcription

Kaikkonen MU, Spann N, Heinz S, Romanoski CE, Allison KA, Stender JD, Chun HB, Tough DF, Prinjha RK, Benner C and Glass CK. Remodeling of the enhancer landscape during macrophage activation is linked to enhancer transcription. Molecular cell, 2013; Volume 51, Issue 3, 310-325;10.1016/j.molcel.2013.07.010

Research article in Nature:

Rev-Erbs repress macrophage gene expression by inhibiting enhancer-directed transcription

Lam MTY, Cho H, Lesch HP, Heinz S, Tanaka-Oishi Y, Benner C, Kaikkonen MU, Salim A, Kosaka M, Lee CY, Watt A, Grossman T, Rosenfeld MG, Evans RM, Glass CK. Rev-Erbs negatively regulate macrophage gene expression by repressing enhancer-directed transcription. Nature 2013 Jun 27; 498(7455):511-5; doi:10.1038/nature12209

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