Publications by authors named "Wassim Rhalloussi"

Purpose: Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most prevalent paediatric brain tumour. Despite improvements in patient survival with current treatment strategies, the quality of life of these patients remains poor owing to the sequelae and relapse risk. An alternative, or, in addition to the current standard treatment, could be considered immunotherapy, such as Natural Killer cells (NK).

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Epitranscriptomic modifications of stable RNAs are dynamically regulated and specific profiles of 2'-O-methylation in rRNA have been associated with distinct cancer types. However, these observations pointed out the existence of at least two distinct groups: a rather large group with constitutive rRNA Nm residues exhibiting a stable level of methylation and a more restricted set of variable modifications, giving rise to the concept of 'specialized ribosomes'. These heterogeneous ribosomes can modulate their translational properties and be key regulatory players, depending on the physiological state of the cell.

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Article Synopsis
  • The apricot tree (Prunus armeniaca) serves as a useful model for studying how plants evolve and adapt, with the analysis of nearly 600 apricot genomes leading to significant findings.
  • There are two main genetic groups of apricots, Chinese and European, each having high genetic diversity due to separate domestication from distinct Central Asian wild populations and some gene mixing afterward.
  • Although both groups show similar physical traits, they have different regions of their genomes influenced by natural selection, particularly in areas related to life cycles, fruit quality, and disease resistance, with European apricots exhibiting more selection signals overall.
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ReMap (http://remap.univ-amu.fr) aims to provide the largest catalogs of high-quality regulatory regions resulting from a large-scale integrative analysis of hundreds of transcription factors and regulators from DNA-binding experiments in Human and Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana).

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