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Pierre Ferrier is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Physics and Astronomy; and Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work intersects several subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Immunology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Their research covers multiple topics such as Biofield Effects and Biophysics, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Microbial Inactivation Methods, RNA modifications and cancer, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pierre Ferrier include:

  • Experimental evidence for long-distance electrodynamic intermolecular forces, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Dynamics of broad H3K4me3 domains uncover an epigenetic switch between cell identity and cancer-related genes, 2021, Genome Research
  • THz spectroscopy to probe long-range electrodynamic interactions between proteins, 2022, 2022 47th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz)
  • Thymocytes trigger self-antigen-controlling pathways in immature medullary thymic epithelial stages, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Experimental evidence for long-distance electrodynamic intermolecular forces - Supplementary Materials, 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Mathias Lechelon
  • Yoann Meriguet
  • Matteo Gori
  • S. Ruffenach
  • Elena Floriani

Publications have appeared across venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Genome Research, the 2022 47th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • The lack of chromosomal protein Hmg1 does not disrupt cell growth but causes lethal hypoglycaemia in newborn mice.

    Sabina Calogero;Fabio Grassi;Adriano Aguzzi;Till Voigtländer

  • Altered T cell development in mice with a targeted mutation of the CD3-epsilon gene.

    M. Malissen;A. Gillet;L. Ardouin;G. Bouvier

  • The scid defect affects the final step of the immunoglobulin VDJ recombinase mechanism

    Barbara A. Malynn;Barbara A. Malynn;T.Keith Blackwell;Gabrielle M. Fulop;Gary A. Rathbun;Gary A. Rathbun

  • Transcription initiation platforms and GTF recruitment at tissue-specific enhancers and promoters

    Frederic Koch;Romain Fenouil;Marta Gut;Pierre Cauchy

  • H3K4 tri-methylation provides an epigenetic signature of active enhancers.

    Aleksandra Pekowska;Touati Benoukraf;Joaquin Zacarias-Cabeza;Mohamed Belhocine

  • Splicing enhances recruitment of methyltransferase HYPB/Setd2 and methylation of histone H3 Lys36

    Sérgio Fernandes de Almeida;Ana Rita Grosso;Frederic Koch;Romain Fenouil

  • CpG islands and GC content dictate nucleosome depletion in a transcription-independent manner at mammalian promoters

    Romain Fenouil;Pierre Cauchy;Frederic Koch;Frederic Koch;Frederic Koch;Nicolas Descostes;Nicolas Descostes;Nicolas Descostes

  • Lineage-specific enhancers activate self-renewal genes in macrophages and embryonic stem cells.

    Erinn L. Soucie;Ziming Weng;Laufey Geirsdóttir;Laufey Geirsdóttir;Laufey Geirsdóttir;Kaaweh Molawi

  • Chromatin Remodeling by the T Cell Receptor (Tcr)-β Gene Enhancer during Early T Cell Development: Implications for the Control of Tcr-β Locus Recombination

    Noëlle Mathieu;William M. Hempel;Salvatore Spicuglia;Christophe Verthuy

  • The inducible cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated gene transcript CTLA-1 sequence and gene localization to mouse chromosome 14

    Jean François Brunet;Magali Dosseto;François Denizot;Marie Geneviève Mattei

  • Defect in Rearrangement of the Most 5′ TCR–Jα Following Targeted Deletion of T Early α (TEA): Implications for TCR α Locus Accessibility

    Isabelle Villey;Danielle Caillol;Françoise Selz;Pierre Ferrier

  • Deletion of the mouse T-cell receptor beta gene enhancer blocks alphabeta T-cell development

    Gaelle Bouvier;Francoise Watrin;Marianne Naspetti;Christophe Verthuy

  • Threonine-4 of mammalian RNA polymerase II CTD is targeted by Polo-like kinase 3 and required for transcriptional elongation.

    Corinna Hintermair;Martin Heidemann;Frederic Koch;Nicolas Descostes

  • TCR beta and TCR alpha gene enhancers confer tissue- and stage-specificity on V(D)J recombination events.

    M. Capone;F. Watrin;C. Fernex;B. Horvat

  • Isolation of scid pre-B cells that rearrange kappa light chain genes: formation of normal signal and abnormal coding joins.

    T K Blackwell;B A Malynn;R R Pollock;P Ferrier

  • A unique H3K4me2 profile marks tissue-specific gene regulation

    Aleksandra Pekowska;Touati Benoukraf;Pierre Ferrier;Salvatore Spicuglia

  • The Human myc Gene Family

    F. W. Alt;Ronald A DePinho;K. Zimmerman;E. Legouy

  • Regulation of TCRβ Gene Assembly by a Promoter/Enhancer Holocomplex

    Kenneth J. Oestreich;Robin Milley Cobb;Steven Pierce;Jianzhu Chen

  • Promoter Activation by Enhancer-Dependent and -Independent Loading of Activator and Coactivator Complexes

    Salvatore Spicuglia;Sanjeev Kumar;Jung-Hua Yeh;Elodie Vachez

  • Enhancer control of V(D)Jrecombination at the TCRβ locus: differential effects on DNA cleavage and joining

    William M. Hempel;Patricia Stanhope-Baker;Noëlle Mathieu;Fang Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivo Gut
Ivo Gut Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico
Marta Gut
Marta Gut Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico
François A. Lemonnier
François A. Lemonnier Université Paris Cité
Philippe Naquet
Philippe Naquet Grenoble Alpes University
Marie Malissen
Marie Malissen Aix-Marseille University
Elena Tomasello
Elena Tomasello Aix-Marseille University
Dirk Eick
Dirk Eick Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich
Karine Crozat
Karine Crozat Aix-Marseille University

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