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[102] Miguel Ángel Peñalva Soto · [112] Jesús del Mazo Martínez
Eduardo Antonio Espeso Fernández Biología Molecular de la Gametogénesis
Genética Molecular de Aspergillus Molecular Biology of Gametogenesis
Aspergillus Molecular Genetics
[114] Rosa María Lozano Puerto · Blanca Teresa
[104] Germán Rivas Caballero Pérez-Maceda
Bioquímica de sistemas de la división Reconocimiento Célula-Biomaterial
bacteriana Cell-Biomaterial Recognition
Systems Biochemistry of Bacterial Division
[116] José Luis Barbero Esteban · Lucas Sánchez
[106] Jorge Bernardo Schvartzman Blinder Rodríguez
Biología molecular de los cromosomas Dinámica Cromosómica en Meiosis
Molecular Biology of the Chromosomes Chromosomal Dynamics in Meiosis
Biología Celular y Molecular as exploring the interactions between cells and biomaterials
Rafael Giraldo
Department Head
http://www.cib.csic.es/es/departamentos/biologia-celular-y-molecular/ensamblajes-macromoleculares-microbianos-sinteticos
Ensamblajes
cadora fluorescente, causa una proteinopatía amiloide sintéti-
ca. Aunque RepA-WH1 no es un agente infeccioso, por lo que
Macromoleculares
se considera un “prionoide”, durante su propagación acoplada a
la división bacteriana se transmite epigenéticamente en forma
de dos “estirpes” amiloides alternativas: partículas globulares de
Between 1998 and 2008, we discovered an infectious agent (i.e., it is a “prionoid”), amyloidogenic precursors are assembled. In
the mechanism through which binding to it is epigenetically transmitted during the whole, functional RepA, WH1 nucleates
specific DNA sequences, or to an Hsp70 propagation, while coupled to cell division, the assembly of an amyloid oligomer that
chaperone (DnaK), selects in the RepA as two alternative and distinct amyloid inhibits DNA replication. This was the first
protein a conformation competent to initiate “strains”: either globular particles with an functional intracellular amyloid ever found
DNA replication of plasmids in Gram- acute toxicity, or fusiform aggregates of a in bacteria. Finally, we have developed
negative bacteria. We also studied the much lower toxicity. DnaK modulates the several sensors of amyloidosis inspired
similarities between RepA and the initiator conversion of the former into the latter. in RepA-WH1: a monoclonal antibody
complex in yeast (ORC). specific of the amyloidogenic conformation
During the period reviewed in this memory of the protein; a chimeric yeast prion that
Later on (2007-2014), we found that the (2015-2016), we have discovered that, in includes sequences from RepA-WH1 and, in
same domain in RepA that becomes active model lipid vesicles, RepA-WH1 assembles collaboration with Complutense University
to initiate replication (WH1) can assemble as pores that permeate the membrane. The in Madrid, functionalized gold nanoparticles
as amyloid fibres in vitro. The expression of interaction of acidic phospholipids with that promote and sense, through Raman
RepA-WH1, fused to a fluorescent protein RepA-WH1 promotes amyloidogenesis of spectroscopy (SERS), RepA-WH1
marker, in E. coli causes a synthetic amyloid RepA-WH1, as much as it happens with amyloidogenesis.
proteinopathy. Although RepA-WH1 is not DNA at the bacterial nucleoid where the
Figure 1
A. Amyloidogenic precursors of RepA-WH1
assemble at the E. coli nucleoid (yellow sector),
as indicated by a conformation-specific antibody
(arrows: Au particles). B. At the membrane,
RepA-WH1 monomers assemble as pores (EM
projection, bottom). These can be reconstituted
in lipid vesicles (red: RepA-WH1-mCherry;
green: confined calcein label). C. In mature
intracellular aggregates, RepA-WH1 assembles
as tubules (3D-EM, left) with a diameter section
alike that found in the pores (right).
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications la Espina S [2016] RepA-WH1 prionoid: Clues from bacteria on factors
governing phase transitions in amyloidogenesis (Review). Prion 10:41-49.
· Torreira E, Moreno-del Álamo M, Fuentes-Perez ME, Fernández C, Martín- · Molina-García L, Gasset-Rosa F, Moreno-del Álamo M, Fernández-
Benito J, Moreno-Herrero F, Giraldo R*, Llorca O* [2015] Amyloidogenesis of Tresguerres ME, Moreno-Díaz de la Espina S, Lurz R, Giraldo R
bacterial prionoid RepA-WH1 recapitulates dimer to monomer transitions of [2016] Functional amyloids as inhibitors of plasmid DNA replication. Sci Rep
RepA in DNA replication initiation. Structure 23:183-189. 6:25425.
· Gasset-Rosa F, Giraldo R [2015] Engineered bacterial hydrophobic · Fernández C, González-Rubio G, Langer J, Tardajos G, Liz-Marzán LM,
oligopeptide repeats in a synthetic yeast prion, [REP-PSI+]. Front Microbiol Giraldo R*, Guerrero-Martínez A* [2016] Nucleation of amyloid oligomers
6:311. by RepA-WH1 prionoid-functionalized gold nanorods. Angew Chem Int Ed
55:11237-11241.
· Moreno-del Álamo M, Moreno-Díaz de la Espina S, Fernández-Tresguerres
ME, Giraldo R [2015] Pre-amyloid oligomers of the proteotoxic RepA-WH1
prionoid assemble at the bacterial nucleoid. Sci Rep 5:14669.
Patentes | Patents
· Fernández C., Núñez-Ramírez R, Jiménez M, Rivas G, Giraldo R [2016] RepA-
WH1, the agent of an amyloid proteinopathy in bacteria, builds oligomeric
pores through lipid vesicles. Sci Rep 6:23144. · Rafael Giraldo y Laura Molina-García. “Bacterial system for the identification
of amyloidogenic peptides and the screening of inhibitors of amyloidosis”.
· Giraldo R, Fernández C, Moreno-del Álamo M, Molina-García L, Revilla- PCT/EP2016/057543.
García A, Sánchez-Martínez MC, Giménez-Abián JF, Moreno-Díaz de
centro de
[102] investigaciones
biológ icas
http://www.cib.csic.es/research/cellular-and-molecular-biology/aspergillus-molecular-genetics
Genética Molecular
del portafolio de enzimas industriales se fabrica con especies de
Aspergillus como factorías celulares.
By combining genetic and biochemical plants and humans is strictly dependent on and nucleus in a coenocytic (multi nuclear)
approaches with in vivo multidimensional exocytosis and fungal cells are sensitive to organism. Specifically we study SltA and
microscopy, we are investigating the certain anti-tumour drugs) and major ones CrzA transcription factors that mediate
organization and dynamics of the Golgi and for biotechnology, as a substantial share of in the responses to cation and alkaline
endovacuolar systems, focusing on RAB and the industrial enzyme catalogue is produced pH stresses, and FlbB that participates
ARF GTPases, their regulators and their with Aspergillus species as cell factories. in asexual reproductive cycle. Analizying
effectors. The Aspergillus Golgi is formed these regulators allow us to investigate the
by non-stacked early and late Golgi cisternae Biosynthetic and catalytic pathways are calcium-calcineurin mediated signaling,
that can be resolved by optical microscopy. transcriptionally regulated. We study ambient pH stress, proteolysis as a
We are studying the mechanisms of signals, receptors, signaling transduction mechanism of posttranslational activation
cisternal maturation in the Golgi, and and the mechanisms responsible of the and the role of stress tolerance in fungal
specifically the mechanisms that determine activation and cellular localisation of virulence and propagation.
the biogenesis of post-Golgi carriers in the transcription factors. Nuclear transport
TGN, as well as the different pathways is a key regulatory step in the regulation
for the exit of membrane and cargo from of transcription. Our focus is using
the endoplasmic reticulum. Our work has as models diverse nuclear factors, to
important implications for both medicine understand the mechanisms involved in
and agriculture (fungal pathogenicity to signaling and traffic between cytoplasm
Figure 2
Cover of the April 2015 issue of the journal
Genetics for the article by Oiartzabal-Arano
et al, analyzing changes in gene expression
pattern due to alterations in the asexual
reproductive cycle in Aspergillus. A corregulation
of genes belonging to secondary metabolism
Figure 1
and development was found. Oiartzabal-Arano
Maturation of TGN cisternae (red, mRFP-PHOSBP) into post-Golgi vesicles containing RabE/Rab11 (green): de E, Garzia A, Gorostidi A, Ugalde U, Espeso EA,
Pantazopoulou, A., Pinar, M., Xiang, X., and Peñalva, M.A. (2014). Mol Biol Cell 25, 2428-2443. Etxebeste O [2015]. Genetics 199(4):1127-42.
· Pinar M, Arst HN Jr, Pantazopoulou A, Tagua VG, de los Ríos V, Rodríguez- · Mellado L, Calcagno-Pizarelli AM, Lockington RA, Cortese MS, Kelly JM, Arst
Salarichs J, Díaz JF, Peñalva MA [2015] TRAPPII regulates exocytic Golgi exit HN Jr, Espeso EA [2015] A second component of the SltA-dependent cation
by mediating nucleotide exchange on the Ypt31 orthologue RabE/RAB11. Proc tolerance pathway in Aspergillus nidulans. Fungal Genet Biol 82:116-128.
Natl Acad Sci USA 112:4346-4351.
· Herrero-Garcia E, Perez-de-Nanclares-Arregi E, Cortese MS, Markina-
· Lucena-Agell D, Galindo A, Arst HN Jr, Peñalva MA [2015] Aspergillus Iñarrairaegui A, Oiartzabal-Arano E, Etxebeste O, Ugalde U, Espeso EA
nidulans ambient pH signaling does not require endocytosis. Eukaryot Cell [2015] Tip-to-nucleus migration dynamics of the asexual development
14:545-553. regulator FlbB in vegetative cells. Mol Microbiol 98:607-624.
· Peñalva MA [2015] A lipid-managing program maintains a stout · Mellado L, Arst HN Jr, Espeso EA [2016] Proteolytic activation of both
Spitzenkörper. Mol Microbiol 97:1-6 (Commentary Review). components of the cation stress-responsive Slt pathway in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol
· López-Berges MS, Pinar M, Abenza JF, Arst HN Jr, Peñalva MA [2015] The Biol Cell 27:2598-2612.
Aspergillus nidulans syntaxin PepA is regulated by two Sec1/Munc-18 · Sebastián V, Manoli MT, Pérez DI, Gil C, Mellado E, Martínez A, Espeso EA,
proteins to mediate fusion events at early endosomes, late endosomes and Campillo NE [2016] New applications for known drugs: Human glycogen
vacuoles. Mol Microbiol 99:199-216. synthase kinase 3 inhibitors as modulators of Aspergillus fumigatus growth.
· Lucena-Agell D, Hervas-Aguilar A, Munera-Huertas T, Pougovkina O, Eur J Med Chem 116:281-289.
Rudnicka J, Galindo A, Tilburn J, Arst HN Jr, Penalva MA [2016)] Mutational · Etxebeste O, Espeso EA [2016] Neurons show the path: tip-to-nucleus
analysis of the Aspergillus ambient pH receptor PalH underscores its communication in filamentous fungal development and pathogenesis. FEMS
potential as a target for antifungal compounds. Mol Microbiol 101:982-1002. Microbiol Rev 40:610-624.
centro de
[104] investigaciones
biológ icas
http://www.cib.csic.es/en/grupo.grivas
Bioquímica
de sistemas de la
división bacteriana
Figure 1
Estudiamos los mecanismos bioquímicos responsables
Distribution of bacterial division components (Escherichia coli) at the different
de la organización de la maquinaria de división bacteria- intracellular spaces in a dividing cell. See text for details. Scheme adapted
na para reconstruir divisomas funcionales mínimos en from the original designed by Ana I. Rico and Miguel Vicente, CNB.
The molecular components involved in bacterial division must be in microspheres and bilayers, in which natural crowding is reproduced.
the right place and the right time along the cell cycle. Many of these These biochemical data will help to identify the key parameters for the
components are modulators of the GTP-linked assembly of FtsZ, functional assembly of the divisome in the cell.
the core element of the divisome in most bacteria. In Escherichia
coli, the positive modulators – ZipA, FtsA, and Zap proteins – are This knowledge facilitates the reconstruction of specific functions
recruited to midcell allowing the assembly of FtsZ to form a dynamic of FtsZ using artificial cell-like containers, as vesicles and droplets,
Z-ring. Conversely, the negative modulators avoid FtsZ assembly in aiming at the synthesis of partial divisome assemblies, whose
other locations: Min proteins at the polar regions and SlmA over the localization is topologically controlled, capable of performing some cell
nucleoid. Most of these regulators interact with FtsZ through a central division functions. These synthetic systems can be devised to partially
hub located at its carboxy terminal end, which integrates signals that mimic the physicochemical properties of the crowded cell interior.
modulate divisome assembly. Crowding causes volume exclusion effects that can significantly alter
division-related macromolecular interactions, both in solution and
Our research aims to achieve a quantitative description of the network in membranes; it can also lead to phase transitions resulting in the
of interactions between FtsZ and the modulators of ring stability, formation of dynamic membrane-free compartments, which may
both in solution and in minimal membrane systems, as nanodiscs, modulate the spatiotemporal organization of divisome complexes.
Figure 2
A. FtsZ waves driven by MinCDE in ZipA-containing bilayers. Min waves displace FtsZ polymers from the membrane resulting in the formation of dynamic FtsZ
patterns, as revealed by confocal microscopy (Martos et al 2015). B. Dynamic relocation of FtsZ as a function of its polymerization state in two-phase systems
encapsulated inside lipid stabilized microdroplets. Numbers in the images correspond to time in minutes (Monterroso et al 2016).
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications trapped during -synuclein fibril formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112:E1994-
2003.
· Fernández C, Núñez-Ramírez R, Jiménez M, Rivas G, Giraldo R [2016] RepA- · Alfonso C, del Castillo U, Martín I, Muga A, Rivas G. [2015] Sedimentation
WH1, the agent of an amyloid proteinopathy in bacteria, builds oligomeric Equilibrium Analysis of ClpB Self-Association in Diluted and Crowded
pores through lipid vesicles. Sci Rep 6:23144. Solutions. Methods Enzymol 562:135-160.
· Rivas G, Minton AP [2016] Macromolecular Crowding In Vitro, In Vivo, and In · Hernández-Rocamora VM, Alfonso C, Margolin W, Zorrilla S, Rivas G [2015]
Between. Trends Biochem Sci 41:970-981. Evidence that bacteriophage Kil peptide inhibits bacterial cell division by
disrupting FtsZ protofilaments and sequestering protein subunits. J Biol Chem
· Monterroso B, Zorrilla S, Sobrinos-Sanguino M, Keating CD, Rivas G [2016] 290:20325-20335.
Microenvironments created by liquid-liquid phase transition control the
dynamic distribution of bacterial division FtsZ protein. Sci Rep 6:35140. · Cabré EJ, Monterroso B, Alfonso C, Sánchez-Gorostiaga A, Reija B, Jiménez
M, Vicente M, Zorrilla S, Rivas G [2015] The nucleoid occlusion SlmA protein
· Monterroso, B., Reija, B., Jiménez, M., Zorrilla, S., Rivas, G [2016] Charged accelerates the disassembly of the FtsZ protein polymers without affecting
molecules modulate the volume exclusion effects exerted by crowders on
their GTPase activity. PLoS ONE 10:e0126434.
FtsZ polymerization. PLoS ONE 11:e0149060.
· Martos A, Raso A, Jiménez M, Petrášek Z, Rivas G, Schwille P [2015] FtsZ · Groen J, Foschepoth D, Te Brinke E, Boersma AJ, Imamura H, Rivas G,
Heus HA, Huck WTS [2015] Associative interactions in crowded solutions
Polymers Tethered to the Membrane by ZipA Are Susceptible to Spatial
of biopolymers counteract depletion effects. Journal of the American Chemical
Regulation by Min Waves. Biophys J 108:2371-2383.
Society 137:13041-13048.
· Salvarelli E, Krupka M, Rivas G, Mingorance J, Gómez-Puertas P, Alfonso C,
Rico AI [2015] The cell division protein FtsZ from Streptococcus pneumoniae
exhibits a GTPase activity delay. J Biol Chem 290:25081-25089. Financiación | Funding
· Chen SW, Drakulic S, Deas E, Ouberai M, Aprile FA, Arranz R, Ness S,
Roodveldt C, Guilliams T, De-Genst EJ, Klenerman D, Wood NW, Knowles · BFU2014-28941-C03-02 (MINECO)
TP, Alfonso C, Rivas G, Abramov AY, Valpuesta JM, Dobson CM, Cremades · H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 (Comunidad Europea)
N [2015] Structural characterization of toxic oligomers that are kinetically
centro de
[106] investigaciones
biológ icas
http://www.cib.csic.es/es/departamentos/biologia-celular-y-molecular/biologia-molecular-de-los-cromosomas
Biología molecular
de los cromosomas
Nos interesan la interrelación y coordinación de los
procesos biológicos en los que está involucrado el DNA
durante la proliferación y la meiosis: replicación, trans-
cripción, reparación y recombinación, cómo están re-
gulados y cómo modifican o son afectados por factores
genéticos, epigenéticos y ambientales como la topolo-
gía del DNA, la organización de la cromatina y el estrés
nutricional.
In eukaryotes, ribosomal genes (rDNA) are Simian Virus 40 (SV40) and Epstein-Barr Meiotic recombination begins with the
organized in tandem repeats. Each repeat Virus (EBV) are frequently used as model introduction of Double Strand Breaks
encompasses a transcription unit and a systems to study DNA replication upon (DSBs) in the DNA. Spo11 is a type II
non-transcribed spacer. In Saccharomyces the infection of eukaryotic cells. Their topoisomerase which catalyses meiotic DSBs
cerevisiae replication forks moving in genomes are circular duplexes organized at regions known as hotspots. Presence of
the direction opposite to transcription are in a single replicon where replication DSBs activates the conserved kinases, ATM/
blocked at specific sites called replication initiates at a precise site upon binding of a ATR, required for genome stability. They
fork barriers (rRFBs) in the non-transcribed specific protein: the large tumor (T) antigen phosphorylate multiple substrates, including
spacer close to the 3’ end of the transcription for SV40 and the Epstein-Barr Nuclear factors of the Spo11 complex, Rec114.
unit. Replication fork blockage requires Antigen 1 (EBNA-1) for EBV. The topology Phospho-Rec114 downregulates Spo11
binding to DNA of Fob1p. We used two- of DNA differs significantly upon protein preventing further DSB formation. ATM/
dimensional (2D) agarose gel electrophoresis binding to DNA in both cases. We used ATR also phosphorylate Hop1, a structural
to investigate and quantify the efficiency two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis component of the Synaptonemal Complex.
of rRFBs in circular minichromosomes. The to analyze the topology of these Phosphorylation of Hop1 is required to ensure
results obtained indicated that neighbor minichromosomes in human embryonic IH-recombination and checkpoint activity, key
sequences and the relative abundance of kidney (HEK) 293 cells. processes for accurate DSB repair in meiosis.
Fob1p modulate the efficiency of rRFBs to
stall replication forks.
Figure 2
Nuclear spreads from S. cerevisiae meiotic cells at different stages in prophase I. DNA was visualized using DAPI whereas the synaptonemal complex was visualized
using anti-Zip1 antibody. ATM/ATR phosphorylated targets were detected using a commercial antibody anti-pS/T[Q].
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications · Schvartzman JB, Martínez-Robles ML, Hernández P, Krimer DB [2013]
The benefit of DNA supercoiling during replication. Biochemical Society
Transactions 41:646-651.
· Fernández-Calleja V, Hernández P, Schvartzman JB, Krimer DB [2017]
Differential Gene Expression Analysis by RNA-seq Reveals the Importance of · Schvartzman JB, Martínez-Robles ML, Hernández P, Krimer DB [2013] Plasmid
Actin Cytoskeletal Proteins in Friend Leukemia Cells. Peer J (doi.org/10.7287/ DNA topology assayed by two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis. In
peerj.preprints.2731v1). Methods Mol Biol 1054:121-132, DNA Electrophoresis: Methods and Protocols
(Svetlana Makovets, ed.) Springer Science Business Media, New York.
· Castán A, Hernández P, Krimer DB, Schvartzman JB [2017] DNA catenation
reveals the dynamics of DNA topology during replication. In Methods Mol · Fernández-Nestosa MJ, Monturus ME, Sánchez Z, Torres F, Fernández A,
Biol: DNA topoisomerases – Methods and Protocols (Marc Drolet, ed.) Springer Fraga M, Hernández P, Schvartzman JB, Krimer DB [2013] DNA methylation-
Science Business Media, New York (in press). mediated silencing of PU.1 in leukemia cells resistant to cell differentiation.
SpringerPlus 2, 392. (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-392).
· Cebrián J, Castán A, Martínez V, Parra C, Kadomatsu-Hermosa MJ,
Fernández-Nestosa MJ, Schaerer C, Hernández P, Krimer DB, Schvartzman
JB [2015] Direct evidence for the formation of precatenanes during DNA
replication. J Biol Chem 290:13725-13735. Financiación | Funding
· Cebrián J, Monturus ME, Martínez-Robles ML, Hernández P, Krimer DB,
Schvartzman JB [2014] Topoisomerase 2 Is Dispensable for the Replication · BFU2014-56835 (MINECO)
and Segregation of Small Yeast Artificial Chromosomes (YACs). PLoS ONE · BFU2015-64361-P (MINECO)
9:e104995. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104995).
· Cebrián J, Kadomatsu-Hermosa MJ, Castán A, Martínez V, Parra C,
Fernández-Nestosa MJ, Schaerer C, Martínez-Robles ML, Hernández P,
Krimer DB, Stasiak A, Schvartzman JB [2015] Electrophoretic Mobility of
Supercoiled, Catenated and Knotted DNA Molecules. Nucleic Acids Res 43:e24.
centro de
[108] investigaciones
biológ icas
Miguel Ángel Vidal que usan líneas de ratones genéticamente modificados y células
Caballero derivadas de ellos.
Investigador Científico
mvidal@cib.csic.es En general los componentes PRC1 promueven proliferación/su-
PhD, 1985 • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
pervivencia celulares. Un ejemplo extremo, en la inactivación
Postdoctoral, 1985-1989 • National Institute for Medical combinada de Ring1A y Ring1B, resulta en paradas proliferativa
Research, MRC, UK
casi inmediata, en parte debida al aumento de niveles de regula-
Científico Titular, 1991
Jefe de Grupo, 1991 dores negativos de proliferación. En otros sistemas, como células
Investigador científico, 2008 • CIB, CSIC madre neurales, la inactivación de sólo uno de los homólogos
también tiene efectos anti proliferativos. Además, las células
mutantes muestran alteraciones en replicación y evidencia de
Otros miembros | Other members
inestabilidad genómica. Dado el efecto dominante que la parada
Katarzyna Starowicz Fabio Nicolini del ciclo celular tiene sobre cualquier otro tipo de análisis sería
importante desacoplar esta actividades de las asociadas con re-
gulación transcripcional.
http://www.cib.csic.es/research/cellular-and-molecular-biology/epigenetic-
control-polycomb-group-genes
En contraste con estas observaciones asociadas a la pérdida de
función de subunidades PRC1 (RING1B, RYBP), en poblaciones
de progenitores hematopoyéticos mutantes se aprecia un efecto
híper proliferativo que indica que, probablemente de modo de-
Figure 1
Altered B cell progenitors
and kidney disease in RYBP-
deficient (hematopoietic
compartment) mice. (A)
Schematic representation
of the relative size of the
pools B-cell progenitors
corresponding to B1 and B2
cell lineages in fetal and adult
stages, showing the reversion
of B1 to B2 ratio in adult
mutant mice. (B) Hematoxylin-
and eosin-stained kidney
sections showing normal
(control) and affected
glomerulus (mutant) in mice,
possibly related to altered
immunoglobulin levels.
Biología Celular y Molecular
[109]
Cellular & Molecular Biology
Homologs RING1A and RING1B, ex vivo such an activity, as well as to aberrant immortalization associated to
Polycomb proteins identified some determine its possible impact on the hematopoietic oncoproteins.
time ago in the lab, are adaptors for
specific histone H2A monoubiquitylation
present in all PRC1 complexes. Although
biochemically complicated, two large
PRC1 sets are devised, one of which
characteristically contains RYBP,
also identified in the lab. Our work
aims to display the contributions of
PRC1 complexes to self-renewal and
differentiation in normal and aberrant
conditions. We use genetically modified
mouse lines and cells derived from them
in select experimental models.
http://www.cib.csic.es/research/cellular-and-molecular-biology/roles-autophagy-health-and-disease
Funciones
este proceso retrasa el proceso de neurodegeneración. Estamos
así mismo interesados en la relación de la autofagia con procesos
de la autofagia
de envejecimiento del sistema nervioso y hemos demostrado una
disminución de la actividad de autofagia que podría en parte es-
tar compensado por otros mecanismos de degradación lisosomal
We want to understand why the process of recently demonstrated that autophagy is the nervous system and have recently
autophagy is essential to maintain cellular essential for neuronal differentiation since found a decrease in the activity of
homeostasis and how deregulations in autophagy-deficient animals generate macroautophagy that seems to be partially
this mechanism can influence pathological reduced numbers of neurons in vitro and compensated by un upregulation of other
situations. have defects in neuritogenesis. We have lysosomal pathways as chaperone mediated
also shown that autophagy is an early autophagy.
Animals deficient for several autophagy cytoprotective response during several
regulators, the Atg genes, die during neurodegenerative conditions. Axonal We also collaborate with several companies
embryonic development revealing the damage in autophagy-deficient animals in the search of new autophagy regulators.
importance of this process to maintain increases cell death and conversely, We have developed several screening
cellular homeostasis. In our group we pharmacological upregulation of this methods to find new autophagy inducers
study the relationship of autophagy process increases neuronal survival. In and inhibitors that could we used as new
with essential processes of proliferation, addtion we are interested in the role of therapies for the treatment of human
differentiation and cell death. We have autophagy during the aging process in diseases.
Figure 2
Mouse retinal section where
cones have been stained in
green and the nuclei in blue.
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications human vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis induced by atherogenic lipids.
Oncotarget 7:28821-28835.
· Rodríguez-Muela N, Hernández-Pinto AM, Serrano-Puebla A, García- · Boya P, Esteban-Martínez L, Serrano-Puebla A, Gómez-Sintes R, Villarejo-
Ledo L, Latorre SH, de la Rosa EJ, Boya P [2015] Lysosomal membrane Zori B [2016] Autophagy in the eye: Development, degeneration, and aging.
permeabilization and autophagy blockade contribute to photoreceptor cell Prog Retin Eye Res 55:206-245.
death in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. Cell Death Differ 22:476-487. · Antonell A, Lladó A, Sánchez-Valle R, Sanfeliu C, Casserras T, Rami L,
· Mauro-Lizcano M, Esteban-Martínez L, Seco E, Serrano-Puebla A, Garcia- Muñoz-García C, Dangla-Valls A, Balasa M,Boya P, Kalko SG, Molinuevo JL
[2016] Altered Blood Gene Expression of Tumor-Related Genes (PRKCB, BECN1,
Ledo L, Figueiredo-Pereira C, Vieira HL, Boya P [2015] New method to assess
mitophagy flux by flow cytometry. Autophagy 11:833-843. and CDKN2A) in Alzheimer’s Disease. Mol Neurobiol 53:5902-5911.
· Doménech E, Maestre C, Esteban-Martínez L, Partida D, Pascual R, · Hernández-Tiedra S, ...., Serrano-Puebla A,..., Boya P,..., Velasco G [2016]
Fernández-Miranda G, Seco E, Campos-Olivas R, Pérez M, Megias D, Allen Dihydroceramide accumulation mediates cytotoxic autophagy of cancer cells
K, López M, Saha AK, Velasco G, Rial E, Méndez R, Boya P, Salazar-Roa M, via autolysosome destabilization. Autophagy 12:2213-2229.
Malumbres M [2015] AMPK and PFKFB3 mediate glycolysis and survival in
response to mitophagy during mitotic arrest. Nat Cell Biol 17:1304-1316.
· Esteban-Martínez L, Doménech E, Boya P, Salazar-Roa M, Malumbres M Financiación | Funding
[2015] Mitophagy in mitosis: more than a myth. Autophagy 11:2379-2380.
· Serrano-Puebla A, Boya P [2016] Lysosomal membrane permeabilization in · BFU2015-65623-R (MINECO) 2016-2018
cell death: new evidence and implications for health and disease. Ann N Y
Acad Sci 1371:30-44.
· SAF2012-36079 (MINECO) 2013-2015
· CONSOLIDER, CDS2010-00045 (MICINN) 2011-2016
· Gómez-Sintes R, Ledesma MD, Boya P [2016] Lysosomal cell death · i-link0701 (CSIC) 2014-2016
mechanisms in aging. Ageing Res Rev 32:150-168. · BFU2015-71869-REDT (MINECO) 2015-2017
· Swiader A, Nahapetyan H, Faccini J, D´Angelo R, Mucher E, Elbaz E, Boya · Provital 2013-2016
P and Vindis C [2016] Mitophagy acts as a safeguard mechanism against · TRANSAUTOPHAGY, COST Action CA15138 2016-2018
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http://www.cib.csic.es/es/departamentos/biologia-celular-y-molecular/biologia-molecular-de-la-gametogenesis
La regulación de la expresión génica es generaciones no expuestas. Con ello, he- miento ha tenido un alto nivel de reper-
clave en el complejo proceso de dife- mos determinando que alteraciones de cusión mediática internacional (http://
renciación de las células germinales, la tal expresión y sus consecuencias negati- www.cib.csic.es/sites/default/files/inli-
reproducción gamética y los primeros es- vas en fertilidad pueden ser transmitidas ne-files/Prensa_Vinclozolina_MEDIA.pdf).
tadios embrionarios preimplantacionales transgeneracionalmente. Este descubri-
de mamíferos. Los RNAs pequeños no-co-
dificantes (sncRNAs) en sus distintos ti-
pos (microRNA, piRNAs, endo-siRNAs,
snoRNAs…) juegan un papel crucial. En
ratón como modelo y mediante secuen-
ciación masiva (NGS), análisis bioin-
formático, molecular y celular, hemos
identificado aspectos específicos de su
biogénesis, función e interrelación entre
ellos o con otros RNAs funcionales como
lncRNAs y mRNAs. En este periodo, espe-
cial interés han tenido las células germi-
nales primordiales (PGCs), en su ventana
de diferenciación crítica embrionaria de
E11.5 a E13.5 días. Paralelamente, esta-
mos desarrollando y caracterizando un
modelo de progresión espermatogénica
ex vivo cultivando fragmentos testiculares
de animales prepuberales, que posibilita-
rá un análisis funcional futuro en ensayos
de reprotoxicidad. En ese sentido, hemos
continuado los estudios de alteración de
la expresión génica en gametogénesis y
embriogénesis temprana inducidos por
sustancias contaminantes ambientales
de acción disruptora endocrina (DEs).
Hemos valorado el efecto de diferentes
DEs tanto individuales como en mezclas
durante el desarrollo y su asociación a
desregulación de sncRNAs. Se han eva-
luado los efectos en adultos después de
exposición a DEs durante la embriogéne-
sis sobre la regulación de miRNAs y sus
genes dianas, junto con otros aspectos
Figure 1
epigenéticos como metilación del DNA y
Ex vivo culture of 6 days postpartum neonatal testis in liquid-gaseous interface over agarose. After 41 days of
apoptosis; no solo en la generación direc- culture, it is possible to identify morfologically spermatocyte cells in pachytene stage stained by DAPI (A); with
tamente expuesta, sino en las sucesivas synaptonemal complexes, detected by cytochemistry (in green) (B) or postmeiotic elongated spermatids (C).
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Figure 2
Differential miRNA expression profile of female
(F) and male (M) PGCs and somatic cells (SC).
Heatmap of miRNA log2 normalized counts
from NGS data with unsupervised hierarchical
clustering of the samples analyzed: male (M)
and female (F) enriched PGCs and somatic cells
(SC) from E11.5, E12.5 and E13.5. The range of
colours goes from blue (minimum expression) to
red (maximum).
The regulation of gene expression is differentiation from E11.5 to E13.5 days. on adults after exposure to EDs during
crucial in the complex process of germ cell At the same time, we are developing and embryogenesis on the regulation of miRNAs
differentiation, gamete reproduction and characterizing a model of spermatogenic and their target genes have been evaluated
the early preimplantation embryonic stages progression ex vivo by cultivating testicular along with other epigenetic aspects such
in mammals. Small non-coding RNAs fragments of prepubertal animals, which as DNA methylation and apoptosis. The
(sncRNAs) in different types (microRNA, will enable a future functional analysis assessment was performed not only in the
piRNAs, endo-siRNAs, snoRNAs...) play in reprotoxicity tests. In that sense, we directly exposed generation, but also in the
crucial roles. In mouse as model and are progressing in studies of altered gene successive unexposed generations. With this,
through next generation sequencing (NGS), expression in gametogenesis and early we have determined that alterations of such
bioinformatics, molecular and cellular embryogenesis induced by environmental expression and its negative consequences
analysis, we have identified specific aspects pollutants of endocrine disrupting action in fertility can be transgenerationally
of their biogenesis, function and interrelation (EDs). We have assessed the effect of transmitted. This discovery has had a
between them or with other functional RNAs different EDs both individually and mixtures high level of international mass media
such as lncRNAs and mRNAs. In this period, compounds during development and repercussion (http://www.cib.csic.es/sites/
we mainly focused on primordial germ cells their association to mechanisms of action default/files/inline-files/Prensa_Vinclozolina_
(PGCs), in their window of critical embryonic on deregulation of sncRNAs. The effects MEDIA.pdf).
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications · García-López J, Larriba E, del Mazo J [2017] Detection and characterization
of small non-coding RNAs in mouse gametes and embryos prior to zygotic
genome activation. In: Zygotic Genome Activation: Methods and Protocols.
· García-López J, Alonso L, Cárdenas DB, Artaza-Alvarez H, Hourcade JD,
Methods in Molecular Biology. Chapter 7. vol 1605. ISBN:978-1-4939-6986-9.
Martinez S, Brieño-Enríquez MA, del Mazo J [2015] Diversity and functional
Editor: Kiho Lee. Springer. Ney York (en prensa).
convergence of small non-coding RNAs in male germ cell differentiation and
fertilization. RNA 21:946-962.
· Brieño-Enríquez MA, García-López J, Cárdenas DB, Guibert S, Cleroux E, Financiación | Funding
Děd L, Hourcade JD, Pěknicová J, Weber M, del Mazo J [2015] Exposure to
endocrine disruptor induces transgenerational epigenetic deregulation of · Programme National de Recherche sur les Perturbateurs Endocriniens” Ministère
microRNAs in primordial germ cells. PLoS ONE 10:e0124296. de l’Ecologie, du Developpment Durable, des Transports et du Logement.
· Larriba E, del Mazo J [2016] Role of Non-Coding RNAs in the República Francesa. (11-MRES-PNRPE-9-CVS-072-Nº210064934)
Transgenerational Epigenetic Transmission of the Effects of Reprotoxicants · MINECO, España (BFU2013-42164-R)
Int J of Mol Sci 17:452. doi:10.3390/ijms17040452.
· Brieño-Enríquez MA, Larriba E, del Mazo J [2016] Endocrine disrupters,
microRNAs and primordial germ cells: a dangerous cocktail. Fertility and
Sterility 106:871–879.
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Cell-Biomaterial Recognition
The “Cell-Biomaterial Recognition Lab” explores the interactions between cells and biomaterials with applications for bone
tissue repair. Biomaterials under study comprise metallic materials, as are cobalt-chromium alloys with high carbon content
and biodegradable magnesium-base materials. The effect on the cell of metallic debris, particles and ions, derived from wear
and corrosion processes are under study.
Total hip replacement with loss of function by metallic biomaterials studies are under study on cells that better represent the osteoarticular
has become an important concern in human health. The most prostheses microenvironment.
widespread clinical intervention for hip substitution is given by
the polyethylene/metal joint replacement. However, excessive wear Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys are biodegradable materials suitable
of polyethylene causes the production of particles that is believed for bone repair application due to its biodegrability, reabsorbability
to be the major cause of the progressive bone loss (osteolysis) and and osteoconductivity. The density, elastic modulus and compressive
subsequent loosening of prosthesis. This problem has strongly driven strength properties of Mg are more similar to bone. Mg is a necessary
the use of the Metal on Metal (MoM) combinations as a replacement element to stimulate the growth of new tissue, is non-toxic and
in joint prostheses, specifically, made of CoCr alloys, due to their degrades in body fluids, making suitable for orthopedic applications. In
substantially low corrosion and wear rates. But unfortunately, there spite of these desirable properties, Mg-based materials have very high
are still wear particles and ions that are released in the body with corrosion rate in the physiological environment. The interaction of cell
these implants. The adverse reaction produced by MoM bearings and particles derived from Mg-based material degradation is under
in the human body seems to be due to the simultaneous presence study in our lab that uses cellular assays and proteomic analysis to
of metallic particles, corrosion products and metallic ions. In our characterize cell response and to identify those proteins affected by the
aim to understand the effect of the wear debris and ions from the interaction of metallic particles.
tribocorrosion process of the MoM implants, cellular and biochemical
Figure 1
MC3T3-E1 mouse osteoblasts cultured for 24 hours in the absence of MgPa (control) and in the presence of 1 mg/ml MgPa (Mg particles). Immunofluorescence
detection by confocal microscopy of ICAM-1 (green) and vimentin (red) expression. Cell nuclei were also stained and appear in blue (Hoechst 33258).
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PhD in Biochemistry, 1981 • Universidad Complutense PhD, 1976 • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
de Madrid Postdoctoral, 1977-1979 • Zoological Institute University
Associate Research, 1984 • NYU Medical Center. of Zurich
Pathology Department. Dr. Angel Pellicer laboratory. New Investigador Asociado, 1979-1981 • Zoological Institute
York. USA University of Zurich.
Researcher, 1983-1996 • Pharmacia/Antibioticos Pharma Jefe de Grupo, 1981-1984 • European Molecular Biology
Group Leader, 1996-2006 • Pharmacia/Department Laboratory. Heidelberg
of Immunology and Oncology. Centro Nacional de Científico Titular, 1985
Biotecnología
Investigador Científico,1989
Investigador Científico, 2006 • CIB, CSIC
Profesor de Investigación, 2004
http://www.cib.csic.es/es/departamentos/biologia-celular-y-molecular/dinamica-cromosomica-en-meiosis
En colaboración con los grupos de JA del mantenimiento de la cohesión entre proteína reguladora WAPL y resultando
Suja (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), cromátidas hermanas, durante la meiosis en la pérdida de cohesión al final de la
de Paula Cohen (Cornell University, New en ratón. Los resultados obtenidos indi- profase I meiótica. Por último, hemos co-
York) y de AM Pendás (Centro de Investiga- can que la sororina se acumula en los laborado con el laboratorio de AM Pendás
ción del Cáncer, Salamanca) se han estu- centrómeros sugiriendo su importancia en la identificación de una nueva función
dio de diferentes proteínas denominadas en la cohesion centromérica. En segundo del producto del gen ya descrito como
“cohesin-regulators” que controlan la di- lugar hemos descrito el papel esencial de SIX6OS1. Este gen había sido reportado
námica del complejo de cohesinas, y otras la NIMA-like kinase1 (NEK1) en la diso- previamente como gen involucrado en el
proteínas esenciales para el correcto de- ciación de los complejos de cohesinas de desarrollo del ojo a través de su interac-
sarrollo del ciclo meiótico en mamíferos. los brazos de los cromosomas durante la ción con el factor de transcripción SIX6.
primera division meiótica en mamíferos. La secuencia de este gen tiene un alto
Hemos analizado la distribución de la NEK1 fosforila la proteína PP1 gamma, grado de conservación con el humano
sororina, que es uno de los reguladores conduciendo a la defosforilación de otra C14ORF39 y se expresa abundantemente
en testículo. En este estudio se muestra
que C14ORF39/SIX6OS1 codifica para un
componente del elemento central del
complejo sinaptonémico. Los ratones
deficientes en este gen muestran sinap-
sis cromosómica defectuosa en meiosis,
resultando en infertilidad. L. Sánchez está
trabajando sobre la evolución de los me-
canismos de determinación sexual.
Financiación | Funding
Figure 1
Tubule degeneration in mice lacking SIX6OS1.
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In collaboration with the groups of JA Suja (University autonomous mammals. NEK1 phosphorylates protein PP1 gamma, leading to the
of Madrid), of Paula Cohen (Cornell University, New York) and of AM dephosphorylation of another regulatory protein WAPL and resulting
Pendás (Centre of research of the Cancer, Salamanca) we have studied in the loss of cohesion at the end of meiotic prophase I. Finally, in
different proteins called “cohesin-regulators” that control the dynamic collaboration with the laboratory of AM Pendás we have contributed
of the complex of Cohesin, and other proteins essential for the correct to the identification of a new function of the product of the gene
development of the meiotic cell cycle in mammals. already described as SIX6OS1. This gene had been reported previously
as a gene involved in the development of the eye through his
We analyzed the distribution of the sororin, that is one of the interaction with the factor of transcription SIX6. The sequence of this
regulators of the cohesion maintenance between sister chromatids, gene has a high degree of conservation with the human C14ORF39
during the meiosis in mouse. The results obtained indicate that the and is expressed abundantly in testis. This study demonstrates that
sororin accumulates at the centromeres, suggesting its importance in C14ORF39/SIX6OS1 encodes a component of the central element
the centromeric cohesion. We have described the essential role of the of synaptonemal complex. Mice deficient in this gene are defective
NIMA-like kinase1 (NEK1) in the dissociation of the Cohesin complex chromosome synapsis in meiosis, resulting in infertility. L. Sánchez is
from the arms of the chromosomes during the first meiotic division in working on the evolution of sex-determining mechanisms.
Figure 2
Scheme showing the distribution of cohesin-regulator sororin during male mouse meiotic divisions.
· Gómez R, Felipe-Medina N, Ruiz-Torres M, Berenguer I, Viera A, Pérez synaptonemal complex and is essential for mouse fertility. Nat Commun
S, Barbero JL, Llano E, Fukuda T, Alsheimer M, Pendás AM, Losada A, 7:13298.
Suja JA [2016] Sororin loads to the synaptonemal complex central region
independently of meiotic cohesin complexes. EMBO Rep 7:695-707.
· Sánchez L, Chaouiya C [2016] Primary sex determination of placental
mammals: a modelling study uncovers dynamical developmental constraints
· Brieño-Enriquez MA, Moak SL, Toledo M, Filter JJ, Gray S, Barbero JL, Cohen in the formation of Sertoli and granulosa cells. BMC Systems Biology 10:37.
PE, Holloway JK [2016] Cohesin removal along the chromosome arms during
the first meiotic division depends on a NEK1-PP1g-WAPL axis in the mouse.
· Ruiz MF, Alvarez M, Eirín-López JM, Sarno F, Kremer L, Barbero JL, Sánchez
L [2015] An Unusual Role for doublesex in Sex Determination in the Dipteran
Cell Reports 17:977-986. Sciara. Genetics 200:1181-1199.
· Gómez-H L, Felipe-Medina N, Sánchez-Martín M, Davies OR, Ramos I, · Eirin-López JM, Sánchez L [2015] The comparative study of five sex-
García-Tuñón I, de Rooij DG, Dereli I, Tóth A, Barbero JL, Benavente R, determining proteins across insects unveils high rates of evolution at basal
Llano E, Pendas AM [2016] C14ORF39/SIX6OS1 is a constituent of the components of the sex determination cascade. Dev Genes Evol 225:23-30.
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su material genético. Problemas durante la replicación · Gonzalez-Huici V, Szakal B, Urulangodi M, Psakhye I, Castellucci F, Menolfi
D, Rajakumara E, Fumasoni M, Bermejo R, Jentsch S, Branzei D [2014] DNA
pueden dar lugar a inestabilidad genómica ligada a en- bending facilitates the error-free DNA damage tolerance pathway and
upholds genome integrity. EMBO J 33:327-340.
fermedades como el cáncer. Nuestro objetivo es com-
· Jossen R, Bermejo R. [2013] The DNA damage checkpoint response to
prender los mecanismos que protegen los cromosomas replication stress: A Game of Forks. Front Genet 4:26.
durante la replicación, para lo que utilizamos una apro- · Alzu A, Bermejo R, Begnis M, Lucca C, Piccini D, Carotenuto W, Saponaro
M, Brambati A, Cocito A, Foiani M, Liberi G. [2012] Senataxin Associates
ximación multidisciplinar que combina genética, genó-
with Replication Forks to Protect Fork Integrity across RNA-Polymerase-II-
mica y biología molecular. Transcribed Genes. Cell 151:835-846.
· Bermejo R, Kumar A, Foiani M [2012] Preserving the genome by regulating
chromatin association with the nuclear envelope. Trends Cell Biol 22:465-473.
La replicación puede ser peligrosa al tener lugar en estructuras · Bock LJ, Pagliuca C, Kobayashi N, Grove RA, Oku Y, Shrestha K, Alfieri C,
especializadas, las horquillas de replicación, intrínsecamente frá- Golfieri C, Oldani A, Dal Maschio M, Bermejo R, Hazbun TR, Tanaka TU, De
Wulf P [2012] Cnn1 inhibits the interactions between the KMN complexes of
giles y propensas a sufrir procesos de recombinación anómala. the yeast kinetochore. Nat Cell Biol 14:614-624.
La progresión de las horquillas puede quedar atascada debido · Bermejo R, Lai MS, Foiani M [2012] Preventing replication stress to maintain
a inhibición de la síntesis de ADN o interferencia con procesos genome stability: resolving conflicts between replication and transcription.
Mol Cell 45:710-718.
metabólicos del cromosoma. En estas situaciones las horquillas
de replicación tienden a desplomarse y sufrir roturas en el ADN. · Ray Chaudhuri A, Hashimoto Y, Herrador R, Neelsen KJ, Fachinetti D, Bermejo
R, Cocito A, Costanzo V, Lopes M. [2012] Topoisomerase I poisoning results in
Una reparación anómala de horquillas desplomadas, en particular PARP-mediated replication fork reversal. Nat Struct Mol Biol 19:417-423.
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DNA replication has a dark side for the cell as it is carried out in how chromosome-organizing factors, such as the cohesin complex,
specialized structures (replication forks) that are intrinsically fragile contribute to maintain the architecture of fork DNA and replication
and prone to engage in unscheduled recombination events. Replication machineries to protect replication integrity.
fork progression can stall when DNA synthesis is inhibited or when
forks interfere with other chromosome metabolic processes (e.g. gene A second project focuses on understanding how cells avoid fork
transcription or DNA repair). In these situations stalled forks tend to collapse upon interference with gene transcription. Fork collapse upon
collapse and generate DNA breaks. Aberrant repair of such collapsed clashing with transcription has emerged as a major potential cause of
forks, particularly in the context of defective cellular response to DNA DNA damage in precancerous cells. We are studying the role of factors
damage, gives rise to mutations and chromosomal rearrangements, involved in mRNA processing in handling the topology of transcribed
hallmarks of malignant transformation. chromatin. We are characterizing their ability to relieve torsional
stress generated upon convergence of replication and transcription
There are two main research projects in the laboratory. The first one machineries and thus prevent the formation of aberrant structures
focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms that protect the that challenge fork progression and stability.
integrity of stalled replication forks to preserve their ability to carry
out DNA synthesis. We are interested in the contribution of several Financiación | Funding
nuclease activities to the resection of replication intermediates upon
fork stalling. These activities influence fork stability and mediate · BFU2011-24909 (MCINN) (2012-2015)
transitions at replication forks that determine the formation of DNA
· BFU2014-52529-R (MINECO) (2015-2017)
· CIG2011-293770 (EU, MARIE CURIE) (2011-2015)
breaks and chromosomal rearrangements. We are also studying · PIE-201420I001 (CSIC) (2014-2015)
Figure 1
Study of replication fork progression and stability. BrdU-IP-Chip (A) and neutral/neutral bidimensional gel electrophoresis (2D gels) (B) in wild type cells (WT) and
DNA replication checkpoint mutants (rad53) treated with the replication inhibitor hydroxiurea. Horizontal bars indicate the progression of replication forks along a
chromosomal segment.
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https://www.cib.csic.es/research/environmental-biology/environmental-
http://www.cib.csic.es/research/chemical-and-physical-biology/electron- microbiology
microscopy-and-three-dimensional-reconstruction
Chromatin structure
and function Environmental
Chromatin regulates every aspect of DNA metabolism from DNA
Microbiology
replication to DNA transcription and DNA damage response. Miss
Our scientific interest is focused on deciphering the complexity
regulation of chromatin function is associated with disease such as
of microbial metabolism, its evolutionary and biotechnological
cancer. I investigate the chemical details of how protein complexes
implications. Through systems and synthetic biology approaches we
recognise, modify and regulate chromatin. I will employ a combination
have contributed to better understanding of the emergent properties
of high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography,
of microbial systems, including optimal photosynthesis process in
mass-spectrometry and biochemistry.
cyanobacteria, and the de-composition of the metabolic robustness
of the biotechnologically relevant chassis Pseudomonas putida. As
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications
applied objective we pursuit the rational re-design of these system
properties, and its further application on biotechnological endeavors.
· Martino F, Kueng S, Robinson JP, Tsai M, Van Leeuwen F, Ziegler M, Rhodes
D, Gasser SM [2009] Reconstitution of yeast silent chromatin: multiple
contact sites and O-AADPR binding load SIR complexes onto nucleosomes in
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications
vitro. Molecular Cell 33:323-334.
· Arnaudo N, Fernández IS, McLaughlin SH, Peak-Chew SY, Rhodes D, · Ebrahim A, [… ] Nogales J […] Thiele I [2015] Do Genome-scale Models Need
Martino F [2013] N-terminal acetylation of Sir3 stabilizes its binding to the
Exact Solvers or Clearer Standards? Mol Syst Biol 11:831.
nucleosome core particle. Nat Struct Mol Biol 20:1119-1121.
· *Monk J,*Nogales J, Palsson BO. (*Equal contribution) [2014] Optimizing
genome-scale network reconstructions. Nat Biotechnol 32(5):447-52.
Financiación | Funding
· Latif H, Sahin M, Tarasova J, Tarasova Y, Portnoy V, Nogales J, Zengler K
[2015] Adaptive evolution of Thermotoga maritima reveals plasticity of the
· SAF2014-59993-JIN ABC transporter network. Appl Environ Microbiol 01365-15.
· Proyectos de I+D+i para jóvenes investigadores · La Rosa R, Nogales J, Rojo F [2015] The Crc/CrcZ-CrcY global regulatory
system helps the integration of gluconeogenic and glycolytic metabolism in
Pseudomonas putida. Environ Microbiol 17:3362-3378.
· Gudmundsson S, Nogales J. [2015] Cyanobacteria as photosynthetic
biocatalysts: a systems biology perspective. Mol Biosyst 11:60-70.
· Nogales J, Agudo LA [2015] A practical protocol for integration of
transcriptomics data into genome-scale metabolic reconstructions. Hydrocarbon
and Lipids Microbiology Protocols, Springer Protocols Handbooks pp 135-152.
Financiación | Funding
· BIO2014-59528-JIN (MINECO)
· H2020 FET-OPEN-686585 (EU)
Programa Ramón y Cajal
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Young Scientists
Investigador Ramón y Cajal Investigadora Ramón y Cajal
j.carballo@cib.csic.es marian@cib.csic.es
PhD, 2003 • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CIB (CSIC) PhD, 2005 • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Postdoctoral, 2004-2008 Postdoctoral, 2005-2009 • MRC-Laboratory of Molecular
Investigador contratado, 2009-2012 • National Institute Biology (Cambridge, UK)
for Medical Research, MRC (London, UK) Postdoctoral, 2009-2012 • CSIC-CIB (Madrid, Spain)
Research Fellow, 2012-2015 • Genome Damage and Staff Scientist, since 2012 • Ramón y Cajal, CSIC-
Stability Centre, University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) CIB (Madrid, Spain)
Investigador Ramón y Cajal, 2013 • CIB, CSIC
Otros miembros | Other members
http://www.cib.csic.es/research/cellular-and-molecular-biology/molecular-
Rubén Ruiz Quero
biology-chromosomes
http://www.cib.csic.es/research/chemical-and-physical-biology/tubulins-
and-ftsz-targeting-protein-self-assembly
Biología Molecular
de los Cromosomas Tubulinas y FtsZ:
Recombinación homóloga del ADN y su regulación en
modulación del
meiosis. ensamblaje de proteínas
Un problema fundamental en biomedicina es entender cómo Nuestra actividad científica se centra en entender las bases mole-
defectos en la gametogénesis conducen a trastornos como in- culares del funcionamiento de los sistemas de segregación de ADN
fertilidad, síndrome de Down o cáncer. Uno de los eventos que con objeto de desarrollar nuevas herramientas biotecnológicas. Nos
definen la gametogénesis es la meiosis. Durante la meiosis, la centramos en sistemas de segregación dirigidos por proteínas tipo
recombinación homóloga del ADN permite reducir el número de tubulina (sistemas de partición tipo III), usando como modelo de
cromosomas a la mitad generándose gametos haploides. Nuestro estudio el sistema que identificamos en el fago c-st de Clostridium
grupo estudia la regulación de la recombinación homóloga y los botulinum (que codifica la neurotoxina BoTox-C). Aplicamos estu-
mecanismos de control por los cuales las células reparan su ADN dios estructurales y bioquímicos para entender: (i) cómo se forma
sin introducir mutaciones o aneuploidías. el complejo nucleo-proteico que se encarga de anclar el ADN a la
proteína motora para su movilización; (ii) las bases moleculares del
movimiento generado por la proteína motora y; (iii) la regulación del
of the Chromosomes
Tubulins & FtsZ: targeting
Meiotic homologous recombination and genome stability. proteins self-assembly
A fundamental problem in biomedicine is to understand how defects Our research activity focuses on the molecular basis of DNA segregation
during gametogenesis cause disorders like infertility, Down syndrome to develop new biotech tools. We work on tubulin-like proteins based DNA
or cancer. A defining event in gametogenesis is meiosis. During meiosis, segregation systems (type III partition systems) using the one we identified
cells halve their chromosome number through a process requiring in Clostridium botulinum phage c-st (also encodes BoTox-C neurotoxin) as
homologous recombination in order to produce haploid gametes. We are model system. Employing a structural and biochemical approach we aim
interested in the regulation of homologous recombination during meiosis to understand: (i) the assembly of the nucleoprotein complex that anchor
and the mechanisms required by the cells to repair their DNA without the DNA to the motor protein; (ii) the molecular basis of the movement
introducing mutations or aneuploidies. through the assembly of the motor protein and; (iii) the partition system
regulation at the transcriptional level and of each partitioning component.
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications
Publicaciones Seleccionadas | Selected Publications
· Carballo JA, Johnson AL, Sedgwick SG, Cha RS [2008] Phosphorylation of
the axial element protein Hop1 by Mec1/Tel1 ensures meiotic interhomolog
recombination. Cell 132:758-770.
· Oliva MA [2016] Segrosome complex formation during DNA trafficking in
bacterial cell division. Front Mol Biosci 3:51.
· Carballo JA, Panizza S, Serrentino ME, Johnson AL, Geymonat M, Borde V, · Wagstaff JM, Tsim M, Oliva MA, García-Sánchez A, Kureisaite-Ciziene
Klein F, Cha RS [2013] Budding yeast ATM/ATR control meiotic double-strand D, Andreu JM, Löwe J [2016] A polymerisation-associated conformational
break (DSB) levels by down-regulating Rec114, an essential component of the switch in FtsZ that enables treadmilling. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/093708.
DSB-machinery. PLoS Genetics 9:e1003545.
· Artola M, Ruiz-Avila LB, Ramirez-Aportela E, Martínez F, Araújo-Baza´n L,
· Newnham L, Jordan PW, Carballo JA, Newcombe S, Hoffmann E [2013] Ipl1/ Vazquez-Villa H, Martín-Fontecha M, Oliva MA, Martín-Galiano AJ, Chacón
Aurora kinase suppresses S-CDK-driven spindle formation during prophase I P, López-Rodriguez ML, Andreu JM, Huecas S [2017] The structural assembly
to ensure chromosome integrity during meiosis. PLoS One 8:e83982. switch of cell division protein FtsZ probed with fluorescent allosteric
· Penedos A, Johnson AL, Strong E, Goldman AS, Carballo JA, Cha RS [2015] inhibitors. Chem Sci 8:1525-1534.
Essential and Checkpoint Functions of Budding Yeast ATM and ATR during
Meiotic Prophase Are Facilitated by Differential Phosphorylation of a Meiotic
· Fuentes-Perez ME, Nuñez-Ramírez R, Martín-González A, Juan-Rodriguez
D, Llorca O, Moreno-Herrero F, Oliva MA [2017] TubZ filament assembly
Adaptor Protein, Hop1. PLoS One 10:e0134297. dynamics requires the flexible C-terminal tail. Sci Rep. DOI:10.1038/srep43342.