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2024

In vivo sequential mutagenesis in germinal center B cells using a dual-recombinase approach: FOXO1 re-expression upon FOXO1 knockout rescues class switch recombination.
Farré Díaz, C., Kabrani, E., Winkler, W., Salomon, C., Wunderlich, F.T., Janz, M. and Rajewsky, K.
bioRxiv : 2024.05.17.592915. 22 May 2024

2023

RIF1 regulates early replication timing in murine B cells.
Malzl, D., Peycheva, M., Rahjouei, A., Gnan, S., Klein, K.N., Nazarova, M., Schoeberl, U.E., Gilbert, D.M., Buonomo, S.C.B., Di Virgilio, M., Neumann, T. and Pavri, R.
Nature Communications 14 (1): 8049. 11 December 2023

Turning science into cover art.
Dauben, H., Matic, I., Kidmose, R.T., Pedersen, B.P., Saha, T., Di Virgilio, M. and Sung, J.H.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences 48 (12): 1009-1011. December 2023

DNA repair and antibody diversification: the 53BP1 paradigm.
Kabrani, E., Saha, T. and Di Virgilio, M.
Trends in Immunology 44 (10): 782-791. October 2023

RIF1 acts as a gatekeeper of B cell identity during late differentiation.
Rahjouei, A., Kabrani, E., Berruezo-Llacuna, M., Altwasser, R., Delgado-Benito, V., Pavri, R. and Di Virgilio, M.
bioRxiv : 2023.07.18.549543v2. 20 July 2023

Disintegration of the NuRD complex in primary human muscle stem cells in critical illness myopathy.
Schneider, J., Sundaravinayagam, D., Blume, A., Marg, A., Grunwald, S., Metzler, E., Escobar, H., Müthel, S., Wang, H., Wollersheim, T., Weber-Carstens, S., Akalin, A., Di Virgilio, M., Tursun, B. and Spuler, S.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24 (3): 2772. 1 February 2023

2022

Therapeutic targeting of ATR in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
Dorado Garcia, H., Pusch, F., Bei, Y., von Stebut, J., Ibáñez, G., Guillan, K., Imami, K., Gürgen, D., Rolff, J., Helmsauer, K., Meyer-Liesener, S., Timme, N., Bardinet, V., Chamorro González, R., MacArthur, I.C., Chen, C.Y., Schulz, J., Wengner, A.M., Furth, C., Lala, B., Eggert, A., Seifert, G., Hundsoerfer, P., Kirchner, M., Mertins, P., Selbach, M., Lissat, A., Dubois, F., Horst, D., Schulte, J.H., Spuler, S., You, D., Dela Cruz, F., Kung, A.L., Haase, K., Di Virgilio, M., Scheer, M., Ortiz, M.V. and Henssen, A.G.
Nature Communications 13 (1): 4297. 25 July 2022

Protection of nascent DNA at stalled replication forks is mediated by phosphorylation of RIF1 intrinsically disordered region.
Balasubramanian, S., Andreani, M., Goncalves Andrade, J., Saha, T., Sundaravinayagam, D., Garzón, J., Zhang, W., Popp, O., Hiraga, S., Rahjouei, A., Rosen, D.B., Mertins, P., Chait, B.T., Donaldson, A.D. and Di Virgilio, M.
eLife 11 : e75047. 13 April 2022

2021

Defective metabolic programming impairs early neuronal morphogenesis in neural cultures and an organoid model of Leigh syndrome.
Inak, G., Rybak-Wolf, A., Lisowski, P., Pentimalli, T.M., Jüttner, R., Glažar, P., Uppal, K., Bottani, E., Brunetti, D., Secker, C., Zink, A., Meierhofer, D., Henke, M.T., Dey, M., Ciptasari, U., Mlody, B., Hahn, T., Berruezo-Llacuna, M., Karaiskos, N., Di Virgilio, M., Mayr, J.A., Wortmann, S.B., Priller, J., Gotthardt, M., Jones, D.P., Mayatepek, E., Stenzel, W., Diecke, S., Kühn, R., Wanker, E.E., Rajewsky, N., Schuelke, M. and Prigione, A.
Nature Communications 12 (1): 1929. 26 March 2021

Charting a DNA repair roadmap for immunoglobulin class switch recombination.
Saha, T., Sundaravinayagam, D. and Di Virgilio, M.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences 46 (3): 184-199. March 2021

2020

PDGFA-associated protein 1 protects mature B lymphocytes from stress-induced cell death and promotes antibody gene diversification.
Delgado-Benito, V., Berruezo-Llacuna, M., Altwasser, R., Winkler, W., Sundaravinayagam, D., Balasubramanian, S., Caganova, M., Graf, R., Rahjouei, A., Henke, M.T., Driesner, M., Keller, L., Prigione, A., Janz, M., Akalin, A. and Di Virgilio, M.
Journal of Experimental Medicine 217 (10): e20200137. 5 October 2020

2019

53BP1 supports immunoglobulin class switch recombination independently of its DNA double-strand break end protection function.
Sundaravinayagam, D., Rahjouei, A., Andreani, M., Tupiņa, D., Balasubramanian, S., Saha, T., Delgado-Benito, V., Coralluzzo, V., Daumke, O. and Di Virgilio, M.
Cell Reports 28 (6): 1389-1399. 6 August 2019

2018

The chromatin reader ZMYND8 regulates Igh enhancers to promote immunoglobulin class switch recombination.
Delgado-Benito, V., Rosen, D.B., Wang, Q., Gazumyan, A., Pai, J.A., Oliveira, T.Y., Sundaravinayagam, D., Zhang, W., Andreani, M., Keller, L., Kieffer-Kwon, K.R., Pękowska, A., Jung, S., Driesner, M., Subbotin, R.I., Casellas, R., Chait, B.T., Nussenzweig, M.C. and Di Virgilio, M.
Molecular Cell 72 (4): 636-649. 15 November 2018

SETD1A protects HSCs from activation-induced functional decline in vivo.
Arndt, K., Kranz, A., Fohgrub, J., Jolly, A., Bledau, A.S., Di Virgilio, M., Lesche, M., Dahl, A., Höfer, T., Stewart, A.F. and Waskow, C.
Blood 131 (12): 1311-1324. 22 March 2018

2017

A dual role of Caspase-8 in triggering and sensing proliferation-associated DNA damage, a key determinant of liver cancer development.
Boege, Y., Malehmir, M., Healy, M.E., Bettermann, K., Lorentzen, A., Vucur, M., Ahuja, A.K., Böhm, F., Mertens, J.C., Shimizu, Y., Frick, L., Remouchamps, C., Mutreja, K., Kähne, T., Sundaravinayagam, D., Wolf, M.J., Rehrauer, H., Koppe, C., Speicher, T., Padrissa-Altés, S., Maire, R., Schattenberg, J.M., Jeong, J.S., Liu, Lei, Zwirner, S., Boger, R., Hüser, N., Davis, R.J., Müllhaupt, B., Moch, H., Schulze-Bergkamen, H., Clavien, P.A., Werner, S., Borsig, L., Luther, S.A., Jost, P.J., Weinlich, R., Unger, K., Behrens, A., Hillert, L., Dillon, C., Di Virgilio, M., Wallach, D., Dejardin, E., Zender, L., Naumann, M., Walczak, H., Green, D.R., Lopes, M., Lavrik, I., Luedde, T., Heikenwalder, M. and Weber, A.
Cancer Cell 32 (3): 342-359. 11 September 2017

MAD2L2 promotes open chromatin in embryonic stem cells and derepresses the Dppa3 locus.
Rahjouei, A., Pirouz, M., Di Virgilio, M., Kamin, D. and Kessel, M.
Stem Cell Reports 8 (4): 813-821. 11 April 2017

2015

DCLRE1C (ARTEMIS) mutations causing phenotypes ranging from atypical severe combined immunodeficiency to mere antibody deficiency.
Volk, T., Pannicke, U., Reisli, I., Bulashevska, A., Ritter, J., Björkman, A., Schäffer, A.A., Fliegauf, M., Sayar, E.H., Salzer, U., Fisch, P., Pfeifer, D., Di Virgilio, M., Cao, H., Yang, F., Zimmermann, K., Keles, S., Caliskaner, Z., Güner, S.Ü., Schindler, D., Hammarström, L., Rizzi, M., Hummel, M., Pan-Hammarstroem, Q., Schwarz, K. and Grimbacher, B.
Human Molecular Genetics 24 (25): 7361-7372. 20 December 2015

PI3 kinase and FOXO1 transcription factor activity differentially control B cells in the germinal center light and dark zones.
Sander, S., Chu, V.T., Yasuda, T., Franklin, A., Graf, R., Calado, D.P., Li, S., Imami, K., Selbach, M., Di Virgilio, M., Bullinger, L. and Rajewsky, K.
Immunity 43 (6): 1075-1086. 15 December 2015

An inherited immunoglobulin class-switch recombination deficiency associated with a defect in the INO80 chromatin remodeling complex.
Kracker, S., Di Virgilio, M., Schwartzentruber, J., Cuenin, C., Forveille, M., Deau, M.C., McBride, K.M., Majewski, J., Gazumyan, A., Seneviratne, S., Grimbacher, B., Kutukculer, N., Herceg, Z., Cavazzana, M., Jabado, N., Nussenzweig, M.C., Fischer, A. and Durandy, A.
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 135 (4): 998-1007. April 2015

2013

53BP1 mediates productive and mutagenic DNA repair through distinct phosphoprotein interactions.
Callen, E., Di Virgilio, M., Kruhlak, M.J., Nieto-Soler, M., Wong, N., Chen, H.T., Faryabi, R.B., Polato, F., Santos, M., Starnes, L.M., Wesemann, D.R., Lee, J.E., Tubbs, A., Sleckman, B.P., Daniel, J.A., Ge, K., Alt, F.W., Fernandez-Capetillo, O., Nussenzweig, M.C. and Nussenzweig, A.
Cell 153 (6): 1266-1280. 6 June 2013

Rif1 prevents resection of DNA breaks and promotes immunoglobulin class switching.
Di Virgilio, M., Callen, E., Yamane, A., Zhang, W., Jankovic, M., Gitlin, A.D., Feldhahn, N., Resch, W., Oliveira, T.Y., Chait, B.T., Nussenzweig, A., Casellas, R., Robbiani, D.F. and Nussenzweig, M.C.
Science 339 (6120): 711-715. 8 February 2013

2011

Translocation-capture sequencing reveals the extent and nature of chromosomal rearrangements in B lymphocytes.
Klein, I.A., Resch, W., Jankovic, M., Oliveira, T., Yamane, A., Nakahashi, H., Di Virgilio, M., Bothmer, A., Nussenzweig, A., Robbiani, D.F., Casellas, R. and Nussenzweig, M.C.
Cell 147 (1): 95-106. 30 September 2011

Regulation of DNA end joining, resection, and immunoglobulin class switch recombination by 53BP1.
Bothmer, A., Robbiani, D.F., Di Virgilio, M., Bunting, S.F., Klein, I.A., Feldhahn, N., Barlow, J., Chen, H.T., Bosque, D., Callen, E., Nussenzweig, A. and Nussenzweig, M.C.
Molecular Cell 42 (3): 319-329. 6 May 2011

Amino-terminal phosphorylation of activation-induced cytidine deaminase suppresses c-myc/IgH translocation.
Gazumyan, A., Timachova, K., Yuen, G., Siden, E., Di Virgilio, M., Woo, E.M., Chait, B.T., Reina San-Martin, B., Nussenzweig, M.C. and McBride, K.M.
Molecular and Cellular Biology 31 (3): 442-429. February 2011

2010

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase targets DNA at sites of RNA polymerase II stalling by interaction with Spt5.
Pavri, R., Gazumyan, A., Jankovic, M., Di Virgilio, M., Klein, I., Ansarah-Sobrinho, C., Resch, W., Yamane, A., Reina San-Martin, B., Barreto, V., Nieland, T.J., Root, D.E., Casellas, R. and Nussenzweig, M.C.
Cell 143 (1): 122-133. 1 October 2010

2009

PIKK-dependent phosphorylation of Mre11 induces MRN complex inactivation by disassembly from chromatin.
Di Virgilio, M., Ying, C.Y. and Gautier, J.
DNA Repair 8 (11): 1311-1320. 2 November 2009

Essential role for DNA-PKcs in DNA double-strand break repair and apoptosis in ATM-deficient lymphocytes.
Callen, E., Jankovic, M., Wong, N., Zha, S., Chen, H.T., Difilippantonio, S., Di Virgilio, M., Heidkamp, G., Alt, F.W., Nussenzweig, A. and Nussenzweig, M.
Molecular Cell 34 (3): 285-297. 15 May 2009

2008

MicroRNA-155 suppresses activation-induced cytidine deaminase-mediated Myc-Igh translocation.
Dorsett, Y., McBride, K.M., Jankovic, M., Gazumyan, A., Thai, T.H., Robbiani, D.F., Di Virgilio, M., Reina San-Martin, B., Heidkamp, G., Schwickert, T.A., Eisenreich, T., Rajewsky, K. and Nussenzweig, M.C.
Immunity 28 (5): 630-638. 16 May 2008

2005

Repair of double-strand breaks by nonhomologous end joining in the absence of Mre11.
Di Virgilio, M. and Gautier, J.
Journal of Cell Biology 171 (5): 765-771. 5 December 2005

2002

Novel pathogenic mechanisms of congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis genetic disorder unveiled by functional analysis of neurotrophic tyrosine receptor kinase type 1/nerve growth factor receptor mutations.
Miranda, C., Di Virgilio, M., Selleri, S., Zanotti, G., Pagliardini, S., Pierotti, M.A. and Greco, A.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 (8): 6455-6462. 22 February 2002