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EPIGENETICS METABOLISM AND CANCER UNIT (EMCU)

EPIGENETICS METABOLISM AND CANCER UNIT (EMCU)

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/lab-canettieri/home

Our lavoratory is interested in understanding how epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming influence tumor behaviour and to invetigate the possibility to target these alterations for therapeutic purposes.

The current main topics of our lab are:

1) Energy and redox rewiring in Cancer

A novel role for Nhp6 proteins in histone gene regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Maintaining a stable and balanced histone pool is of paramount importance for genome stability and fineregulation of DNA replication and transcription. This involves a complex regulatory machinery, exploitingtranscription factors as well as histone chaperones, chromatin remodelers and modifiers. The functionaldetails of this machinery are as yet unclear. Previous studies report histone decrease in mammalianand yeast HMGB family mutants. In this study we find that Nhp6 proteins, the S.

Optimization of an in vitro transcription/translation system based on Sulfolobus solfataricus cell lysate.

A system is described which permits the efficient synthesis of proteins in vitro at high temperature. It is based on the use of an unfractionated cell lysate (S30) from Sulfolobus solfataricus previously well characterized in our laboratory for translation of pre-transcribed mRNAs, and now adapted to
perform coupled transcription and translation. The essential element in this expression system is a

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