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Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

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Biology and Biochemistry

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49
Citations
16570
World Ranking
17832
National Ranking
7297

Overview

Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with focused subfields including Neurology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Physiology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics cover Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, RNA Research and Splicing, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, Neurological Diseases and Metabolism, and Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments.

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Acta Neuropathologica, and JAMA. The scientist has contributed notable recent papers such as:

  • Reduced C9ORF72 function exacerbates gain of toxicity from ALS/FTD-causing repeat expansion in C9orf72, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Mechanism of STMN2 cryptic splice-polyadenylation and its correction for TDP-43 proteinopathies, 2023, Science
  • Gasdermin-E mediates mitochondrial damage in axons and neurodegeneration, 2023, Neuron
  • Cytoplasmic FUS triggers early behavioral alterations linked to cortical neuronal hyperactivity and inhibitory synaptic defects, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Cryptic splicing of stathmin-2 and UNC13A mRNAs is a pathological hallmark of TDP-43-associated Alzheimer's disease, 2024, Acta Neuropathologica

Collaborations have frequently involved co-authors such as Don W. Cleveland, Melissa McAlonis-Downes, Brian J. Wainger, Leonard Petrucelli, and Michael W. Baughn. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary efforts across neurodegenerative disease mechanisms and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Long pre-mRNA depletion and RNA missplicing contribute to neuronal vulnerability from loss of TDP-43

    Magdalini Polymenidou;Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne;Kasey R. Hutt;Stephanie C. Huelga

  • TDP-43 and FUS/TLS: emerging roles in RNA processing and neurodegeneration

    Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne;Magdalini Polymenidou;Don W. Cleveland

  • Exome sequencing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies risk genes and pathways

    Elizabeth T. Cirulli;Brittany N Lasseigne;Slave Petrovski;Peter C Sapp

  • Divergent roles of ALS-linked proteins FUS/TLS and TDP-43 intersect in processing long pre-mRNAs

    Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne;Magdalini Polymenidou;Kasey R. Hutt;Anthony Q. Vu

  • Rethinking ALS: The FUS about TDP-43

    Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne;Don W. Cleveland

  • Targeted degradation of sense and antisense C9orf72 RNA foci as therapy for ALS and frontotemporal degeneration

    Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne;Michael Baughn;Frank Rigo;Shuying Sun

  • Gain of Toxicity from ALS/FTD-Linked Repeat Expansions in C9ORF72 Is Alleviated by Antisense Oligonucleotides Targeting GGGGCC-Containing RNAs

    Jie Jiang;Jie Jiang;Qiang Zhu;Tania F. Gendron;Shahram Saberi

  • Animal models of neurodegenerative diseases.

    Ted M. Dawson;Todd E. Golde;Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

  • ALS-associated mutations in TDP-43 increase its stability and promote TDP-43 complexes with FUS/TLS

    Shuo-Chien Ling;Claudio P. Albuquerque;Joo Seok Han;Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

  • ALS-linked TDP-43 mutations produce aberrant RNA splicing and adult-onset motor neuron disease without aggregation or loss of nuclear TDP-43

    Eveline S. Arnold;Shuo-Chien Ling;Stephanie C. Huelga;Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

  • Premature polyadenylation-mediated loss of stathmin-2 is a hallmark of TDP-43-dependent neurodegeneration.

    Ze’ev Melamed;Jone López-Erauskin;Michael W. Baughn;Ouyang Zhang

  • Nuclear-Import Receptors Reverse Aberrant Phase Transitions of RNA-Binding Proteins with Prion-like Domains

    Lin Guo;Hong Joo Kim;Hejia Wang;John Monaghan

  • Direct conversion of patient fibroblasts demonstrates non-cell autonomous toxicity of astrocytes to motor neurons in familial and sporadic ALS.

    Kathrin Meyer;Laura Ferraiuolo;Carlos J. Miranda;Shibi Likhite;Shibi Likhite

  • ADCK3, an Ancestral Kinase, Is Mutated in a Form of Recessive Ataxia Associated with Coenzyme Q10 Deficiency

    Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne;Meriem Tazir;Luis Carlos López;Catarina M. Quinzii

  • Homozygous mutation in SPATA16 is associated with male infertility in human globozoospermia.

    Anika H.D.M. Dam;Isabelle Koscinski;Jan A.M. Kremer;Céline Moutou

  • Mutant Huntingtin promotes autonomous microglia activation via myeloid lineage-determining factors

    Andrea Crotti;Christopher Benner;Bilal E Kerman;David Gosselin

  • C9ORF72 poly(GA) aggregates sequester and impair HR23 and nucleocytoplasmic transport proteins

    Yong Jie Zhang;Tania F. Gendron;Jonathan C. Grima;Hiroki Sasaguri

  • The gene disrupted in Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome encodes SIL1, an HSPA5 cochaperone

    Anna-Kaisa Anttonen;Ibrahim Mahjneh;Riikka H Hämäläinen;Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

  • ALS-causative mutations in FUS/TLS confer gain and loss of function by altered association with SMN and U1-snRNP.

    Shuying Sun;Shuo Chien Ling;Shuo Chien Ling;Jinsong Qiu;Claudio P. Albuquerque

  • Toxic gain of function from mutant FUS protein is crucial to trigger cell autonomous motor neuron loss

    Jelena Scekic‐Zahirovic;Jelena Scekic‐Zahirovic;Oliver Sendscheid;Oliver Sendscheid;Hajer El Oussini;Hajer El Oussini;Mélanie Jambeau;Mélanie Jambeau

Frequent Co-Authors

Don W. Cleveland
Don W. Cleveland University of California, San Diego
Gene W. Yeo
Gene W. Yeo University of California, San Diego
Michel Koenig
Michel Koenig University of Montpellier
Christopher Shaw
Christopher Shaw King's College London
Dieter Edbauer
Dieter Edbauer German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Enza Maria Valente
Enza Maria Valente University of Pavia
Bruno Dallapiccola
Bruno Dallapiccola Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
Jean-Louis Mandel
Jean-Louis Mandel Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Francesco Brancati
Francesco Brancati University of L'Aquila
Michio Hirano
Michio Hirano Columbia University

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