Molecular mechanisms involved in cisplatin cytotoxicity

P Jordan, M Carmo-Fonseca* - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences …, 2000 - Springer
cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) or cisplatin is a DNA-damaging agent that is widely used
in cancer chemotherapy. Cisplatin cross-links to DNA, forming intra-and interstrand adducts …

To be or not to be in the nucleolus

M Carmo-Fonseca, L Mendes-Soares, I Campos - Nature cell biology, 2000 - nature.com
Compartmentalization has long been known to have a key role in regulation of cellular
processes. By keeping enzymes and regulatory complexes in compartments where the …

Deep intronic mutations and human disease

R Vaz-Drago, N Custódio, M Carmo-Fonseca - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized clinical diagnostic testing. Yet, for a
substantial proportion of patients, sequence information restricted to exons and exon–intron …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian NET-seq reveals genome-wide nascent transcription coupled to RNA processing

…, H Kimura, MJ Dye, S Dhir, M Carmo-Fonseca… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Transcription is a highly dynamic process. Consequently, we have developed native
elongating transcript sequencing technology for mammalian chromatin (mNET-seq), which …

Retinoic acid regulates aberrant nuclear localization of PML-RARα in acute promyelocytic leukemia cells

…, C Lavau, J Jansen, T Carvalho, M Carmo-Fonseca… - Cell, 1994 - cell.com
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is characterized by a specific t (l5; 17) translocation that
fuses the retinoic acid receptor a (RAFta) to a novel gene product, PML. The involvement of …

The C-terminal domain of TAP interacts with the nuclear pore complex and promotes export of specific CTE-bearing RNA substrates

…, M WILM, D GOeRLICH, M CARMO-FONSECA… - Rna, 2000 - cambridge.org
Messenger RNAs are exported from the nucleus as large ribonucleoprotein complexes
(mRNPs). To date, proteins implicated in this process include TAP/Mex67p and RAE1/Gle2p …

Transcription-dependent colocalization of the U1, U2, U4/U6, and U5 snRNPs in coiled bodies

M Carmo-Fonseca, R Pepperkok, MT Carvalho… - The Journal of cell …, 1992 - rupress.org
We have recently shown that discrete foci are present in the nuclei of mammalian cells in
which each of the U1, U2, U4/U6, and U5 snRNPs involved in pre-mRNA splicing, and the …

Dynamic association of RNA-editing enzymes with the nucleolus

…, M O'Connell, M Carmo-Fonseca - Journal of cell …, 2003 - journals.biologists.com
ADAR1 and ADAR2 are editing enzymes that deaminate adenosine to inosine in long
double stranded RNA duplexes and specific pre-mRNA transcripts. Here, we show that full …

[HTML][HTML] Vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein inhibits host cell gene expression by targeting the nucleoporin Nup98

…, D Sitterlin, A Bachi, X Wu, M Wilm, M Carmo-Fonseca… - Molecular cell, 2000 - cell.com
Vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein (VSV M) has been shown to inhibit both transcription
and nucleocytoplasmic transport. We have isolated a mutant form of M, termed M (D) …

[HTML][HTML] Dbp5, a DEAD‐box protein required for mRNA export, is recruited to the cytoplasmic fibrils of nuclear pore complex via a conserved interaction with CAN …

…, M Wilm, B Seraphin, M CarmoFonseca… - The EMBO …, 1999 - embopress.org
Dbp5 is a DEAD‐box protein essential for mRNA export from the nucleus in yeast. Here we
report the isolation of a cDNA encoding human Dbp5 (hDbp5) which is 46% identical to …