Neurobiologia molecolare e cellulare

Stefan Tenzer, Albertomaria Moro, Jörg Kuharev, Ashwanth Christopher Francis, Laura Vidalino, Alessandro Provenzani and Paolo Macchi. Proteome-wide characterization of the RNA-binding protein RALY-interactome using the iBioPQ (in vivo-Biotinylation-Pulldown-Quant) approach. Journal of Proteome Research (2013) PMID 23614458

Michela A Denti, Gabriella Viero, Alessandro Provenzani, Alessandro Quattrone, and Paolo Macchi. mRNA fate: Life and death of the mRNA in the cytoplasm. RNA Biology 10(3) (2013) PMID 23466755

John P. Vessey, Lucia Schoderboeck, Ewald Gingl, Ettore Luzi, Julia Riefler, Francesca Di Leva, Daniela Karra, Michael A. Kiebler and Paolo Macchi. Mammalian Pum2 regulates dendrite morphogenesis and synaptic function. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 3222-7.

Fabian Tübing, Georgia Vendra1, Martin Mikl, Paolo Macchi, Sabine Thomas and Michael A. Kiebler. Dendritically localized transcripts are sorted into distinct sRNPs that display fast directional motility along dendrites of hippocampal neurons. J. of Neuroscience, 30: 4160-70.

Zeitelhofer M, Karra D, Vessey JP, Jaskic E, Macchi P, Thomas S, Riefler J, Kiebler M, Dahm R. (2009). High-efficiency transfection of short hairpin RNAs-encoding plasmids into primary hippocampal neurons. J. Neurosci. Res. 87: 289-300.

Zeitelhofer M, Macchi P and Dahm R. (2008). Perplexing bodies: The putative roles of P-bodies in neurons. RNA Biol. 5: 244-8.

Vessey JP, Macchi P, Stein JM, Mikl M, Hawker KN, Vogelsang P, Wieczorek K, Vendra G, Riefler J, Tübing F, Aparicio SA, Abel T, Kiebler MA (2008). A loss of function allele for murine Staufen1 leads to impairment of dendritic Staufen1-RNP delivery and dendritic spine morphogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105:16374-9.

Vessey J, Dahm R, Macchi P. Silence please: Pumilio speaks: translational silencing by Pumilio proteins. In “RNA Binding Proteins in Development and Disease”. Denman (Ed.), p. 75-105.

Dahm R, Kiebler M and Macchi P (2008). “mRNA localisation and local protein translation“. Methods in Cell Biology 85: 293-327.

Vessey JP, Vaccani A, Xie Y, Dahm R, Karra D, Kiebler MA, Macchi P. 2006. Dendritic localization of the translational repressor Pumilio 2 and its contribution to dendritic stress granules. J Neurosci 26: 6496-6508.

Massi P, Vaccani A, Bianchessi S, Costa B, Macchi P, Parolaro D. 2006. The non-psychoactive cannabidiol triggers caspase activation through the involvement of oxidative stress in human glioma cells. Cell Mol Life Sci 63: 2057-2066.

Martel C, Macchi P, Furic L, Kiebler MA, DesGroseillers L. 2005. Staufen1 is imported into the nucleolus via a bipartite nuclear localization signal and several modulatory determinants. Biochem J 393: 245-254.

Kiebler M, Peter-Jansen R, Dahm D, Macchi P. 2005. A putative nuclear function for mammalian Staufen. Trends Biochem Sci 30: 228-231.

Goetze B, Tuebing F, Xie Y, Thomas S, Macchi P, Kiebler MA. 2005. The brain specific double-stranded RNA binding protein Staufen2 is required for dendritic spine development. J Cell Biol 172: 221-231.

Macchi P, Brownawell AM, Grunewald B, Macara I, Kiebler M. 2004. The brain specific double-stranded RNA-binding protein Staufen2:
nucleolar accumulation and isoform specific Exportin-5 dependent export“. J Biol Chem 279.

Macchi P, Hemraj I, Grunewald B, Mallardo M, Goetze B, Kiebler M. 2003. A GFP-based system to uncouple mRNA transport from translation in a single living neuron. Mol Biol Cell 14: 1570-1582.

Macchi P, Kroening S, Palacios IM, Baldassa S, Grunewald B, Ambrosino C, Goetze B, Lupas A, St Johnston D, Kiebler M. 2003. Barentsz, a new component of the Staufen-containing ribonucleoprotein particles in mammalian cells, interacts with Staufen in a RNA-dependent manner. J Neurosci 23: 5778-5788.

Simons M, Kramer EM, Macchi P, Rathke-Hartlieb S, Trotter J, Kiebler M, Nave KA, Schulz J. 2002. Accumulation of the myelin proteolipid protein in the endosomal system impairs raft membrane trafficking: implication for Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. J Cell Biol 157: 327-336.

Monnier P, Sierra A, Macchi P, Deitinghoff L, Andersen JS, Mann M, Flad M, Hornberger M, Stahl B, Bonhoeffer F, Mueller B. 2002. RGM, a novel repulsive guidance molecule for retinal axons. Nature 419: 392-395.

Kiebler M, Macchi P. 2001. mRNA localization revisited. Cell 107: 269-272.

Macchi P, Villa A, Giliani S, Sacco MG, Frattini A, Porta F, Ugazio A, Johnston J, Candotti F, O' Shea J, Vezzoni P, Notarangelo G. 1995. Mutations of JAK3 gene in patients with autosomal severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Nature 377: 65-68.

Manuel Zeitelhofer, Daniela Karra, Paolo Macchi, Marco Tolino, Sabine Thomas, Martina Schwarz, Michael Kiebler and Ralf Dahm (2008). Dynamic interaction between P-bodies and transport RNPs in dendrites of mature hippocampal neurons. J. of Neuroscience, In press.

Zeitelhofer Manuel, Karra Daniela Vessey John, Jaskic Elmir, Macchi Paolo, Thomas Sabine, Riefler Julia, Kiebler Michael and Dahm Ralf (2008). Improved protocol for high-efficiency transfection of shRNA-encoding plasmids into primary hippocampal neurons. J. of Neuroscience Research, In press.

Xie Y, Vessey JP, Konecna A, Dahm R, Macchi P and Kiebler MA (2007). “The dendritic spine-associated GTPase Septin 7 is a regulator of dendrite branching and dendritic spine morphology”. Current Biology 17: 1746-51.

Dahm R, Kiebler K, Macchi P (2007). “RNA localization in the nervous system“. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 18: 216-23.

Dahm R and Macchi P (2007). “Human pathologies associated with defective mRNA transport”. Biology of the Cell, 99: 649-61.

  • Ralf Dahm, Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Mainz, Germany
  • Stefano Ferrari, Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Michael A. Kiebler, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
  • Philippe Monnier, University of Toronto/University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
  • Stefan Tenzer, Institute of Immunology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
  • Jacqueline Trotter, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Mainz, Germany
  • John P. Vessey, Development and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children -
  • MaRS Centre Toronto Medical Discovery East Tower 101 College Street, Toronto, Canada