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48921
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Matteo Pellegrini is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in medicine as well.

Their work covers a diverse range of subfields including molecular biology, immunology, genetics, physiology, and oncology. This breadth reflects in their engagement with various main topics such as epigenetics and DNA methylation, RNA modifications and cancer, immune cell function and interaction, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, genomics and chromatin dynamics, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and adipose tissue and metabolism.

Some of Matteo Pellegrini's recent publications include:

  • The IntAct database: efficient access to fine-grained molecular interaction data, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Single-cell sequencing of human white adipose tissue identifies new cell states in health and obesity, 2021, Nature Immunology
  • Mapping human haematopoietic stem cells from haemogenic endothelium to birth, 2022, Nature
  • Single cell and spatial sequencing define processes by which keratinocytes and fibroblasts amplify inflammatory responses in psoriasis, 2023, Nature Communications
  • A mammalian methylation array for profiling methylation levels at conserved sequences, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Feiyang Ma, Marco Morselli, Colin Farrell, Liudmilla Rubbi, and Robert L. Modlin.

Their scholarly output has been published predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Cancer Research, and Epigenetics.

Matteo Pellegrini received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Shotgun bisulphite sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome reveals DNA methylation patterning

    Shawn J. Cokus;Suhua Feng;Xiaoyu Zhang;Zugen Chen

  • Assigning protein functions by comparative genome analysis protein phylogenetic profiles

    Matteo Pellegrini;Edward M. Marcotte;Michael J. Thompson;David Eisenberg

  • Detecting Protein Function and Protein-Protein Interactions from Genome Sequences

    Edward M Marcotte;Matteo Pellegrini;Ho Leung Ng;Danny W. Rice

  • Genome-wide high-resolution mapping and functional analysis of DNA methylation in arabidopsis.

    Xiaoyu Zhang;Junshi Yazaki;Ambika Sundaresan;Shawn Cokus

  • Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

    Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus;Xiaoyu Zhang;Pao Yang Chen

  • A combined algorithm for genome-wide prediction of protein function

    Edward M. Marcotte;Matteo Pellegrini;Michael J. Thompson;Todd O. Yeates

  • Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by Aid deficiency

    Christian Popp;Wendy Dean;Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus

  • Relationship between nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation.

    Ramakrishna K. Chodavarapu;Suhua Feng;Yana V. Bernatavichute;Pao Yang Chen

  • Whole-genome analysis of histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation in Arabidopsis.

    Xiaoyu Zhang;Oliver Clarenz;Shawn Cokus;Yana V Bernatavichute

  • Pioneer transcription factors target partial DNA motifs on nucleosomes to initiate reprogramming

    Abdenour Soufi;Meilin Fernandez Garcia;Artur Jaroszewicz;Nebiyu Osman

  • Genome-wide analysis of mono-, di- and trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Xiaoyu Zhang;Yana V Bernatavichute;Shawn Cokus;Matteo Pellegrini

  • A census of protein repeats

    Edward M. Marcotte;Matteo Pellegrini;Todd O. Yeates;David Eisenberg

  • Promoter CpG Methylation Contributes to ES Cell Gene Regulation in Parallel with Oct4/Nanog, PcG Complex, and Histone H3 K4/K27 Trimethylation

    Shaun D. Fouse;Yin Shen;Matteo Pellegrini;Steve Cole

  • Three Acyltransferases and Nitrogen-responsive Regulator Are Implicated in Nitrogen Starvation-induced Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Chlamydomonas

    Nanette R. Boyle;Mark Dudley Page;Bensheng Liu;Ian K. Blaby

  • Distinct Shifts in Microbiota Composition during Drosophila Aging Impair Intestinal Function and Drive Mortality.

    Rebecca I. Clark;Anna Salazar;Ryuichi Yamada;Sorel Fitz-Gibbon

  • Genetic Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Colorectal Cancer

    Catherine S. Grasso;Marios Giannakis;Marios Giannakis;Daniel K. Wells;Tsuyoshi Hamada

  • Genome-wide association of histone H3 lysine nine methylation with CHG DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Yana V. Bernatavichute;Xiaoyu Zhang;Shawn Cokus;Matteo Pellegrini

  • Prolinks: a database of protein functional linkages derived from coevolution

    Peter M Bowers;Matteo Pellegrini;Mike J Thompson;Joe Fierro

  • BS-Seeker2: a versatile aligning pipeline for bisulfite sequencing data

    Weilong Guo;Weilong Guo;Petko Fiziev;Weihong Yan;Shawn J. Cokus

  • Nitrogen-Sparing Mechanisms in Chlamydomonas Affect the Transcriptome, the Proteome, and Photosynthetic Metabolism

    Stefan Schmollinger;Timo Mühlhaus;Nanette R. Boyle;Ian K. Blaby

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabeeha S. Merchant
Sabeeha S. Merchant University of California, Berkeley
Aldons J. Lusis
Aldons J. Lusis University of California, Los Angeles
Robert L. Modlin
Robert L. Modlin University of California, Los Angeles
Steven E. Jacobsen
Steven E. Jacobsen University of California, Los Angeles
David Eisenberg
David Eisenberg Harvard University
Suhua Feng
Suhua Feng University of California, Los Angeles
Todd O. Yeates
Todd O. Yeates University of California, Los Angeles
Krishna K. Niyogi
Krishna K. Niyogi University of California, Berkeley
Milan Fiala
Milan Fiala University of California, Los Angeles
Steve Horvath
Steve Horvath University of California, Los Angeles

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