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Overview

Vittorio Sartorelli is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology. Other subfields include Genetics, Physiology, Immunology, and Epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in their work span several areas such as Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Some recent publications by Vittorio Sartorelli include:

  • The JAK-STAT pathway at 30: Much learned, much more to do, 2022, Cell
  • Enhancer RNAs are an important regulatory layer of the epigenome, 2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • FoxO maintains a genuine muscle stem-cell quiescent state until geriatric age, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • Dynamic sex chromosome expression in Drosophila male germ cells, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Rapid Enhancer Remodeling and Transcription Factor Repurposing Enable High Magnitude Gene Induction upon Acute Activation of NK Cells, 2020, Immunity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sartorelli include Stefania Dell'Orso, Kyung Dae Ko, Kan Jiang, Veronica Ciuffoli, and Xuesong Feng.

Their work is frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), STAR Protocols, Genes & Development, Nature Communications, and Trends in Molecular Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Glucose Restriction Inhibits Skeletal Myoblast Differentiation by Activating SIRT1 through AMPK-Mediated Regulation of Nampt

    Marcella Fulco;Yana Cen;Po Zhao;Eric P. Hoffman

  • Sir2 Regulates Skeletal Muscle Differentiation as a Potential Sensor of the Redox State

    Marcella Fulco;R.Louis Schiltz;Simona Iezzi;M.Todd King

  • The Polycomb Ezh2 methyltransferase regulates muscle gene expression and skeletal muscle differentiation

    Giuseppina Caretti;Monica Di Padova;Bruce Micales;Gary E. Lyons

  • twist is a potential oncogene that inhibits apoptosis

    Roberta Maestro;Angelo P. Dei Tos;Yasuo Hamamori;Svetlana Krasnokutsky

  • The NAD+-Dependent SIRT1 Deacetylase Translates a Metabolic Switch into Regulatory Epigenetics in Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells

    James G. Ryall;Stefania Dell’Orso;Assia Derfoul;Aster Juan

  • Differential roles of p300 and PCAF acetyltransferases in muscle differentiation

    Pier Lorenzo Puri;Pier Lorenzo Puri;Vittorio Sartorelli;Vittorio Sartorelli;Xiang Jiao Yang;Yasuo Hamamori

  • eRNAs Promote Transcription by Establishing Chromatin Accessibility at Defined Genomic Loci

    Kambiz Mousavi;Hossein Zare;Stefania Dell’Orso;Lars Grontved

  • Regulation of the p300 HAT domain via a novel activation loop

    Paul R Thompson;Paul R Thompson;Dongxia Wang;Ling Wang;Marcella Fulco

  • Regulation of Histone Acetyltransferases p300 and PCAF by the bHLH Protein Twist and Adenoviral Oncoprotein E1A

    Yasuo Hamamori;Vittorio Sartorelli;Vasily Ogryzko;Pier Lorenzo Puri;Pier Lorenzo Puri

  • H3K4 mono- and di-methyltransferase MLL4 is required for enhancer activation during cell differentiation

    Ji Eun Lee;Chaochen Wang;Shiliyang Xu;Shiliyang Xu;Young-Wook Cho

  • BACH2 represses effector programs to stabilize T reg -mediated immune homeostasis

    Rahul Roychoudhuri;Kiyoshi Hirahara;Kiyoshi Hirahara;Kambiz Mousavi;David Clever

  • Molecular mechanisms of myogenic coactivation by p300: direct interaction with the activation domain of MyoD and with the MADS box of MEF2C.

    V Sartorelli;J Huang;Y Hamamori;L Kedes

  • Acetylation of MyoD Directed by PCAF Is Necessary for the Execution of the Muscle Program

    Vittorio Sartorelli;Pier Lorenzo Puri;Pier Lorenzo Puri;Yasuo Hamamori;Vasily Ogryzko

  • TNF/p38α/Polycomb Signaling to Pax7 Locus in Satellite Cells Links Inflammation to the Epigenetic Control of Muscle Regeneration

    Daniela Palacios;Chiara Mozzetta;Silvia Consalvi;Giuseppina Caretti;Giuseppina Caretti

  • DNA Damage-Dependent Acetylation of p73 Dictates the Selective Activation of Apoptotic Target Genes

    Antonio Costanzo;Antonio Costanzo;Paola Merlo;Natalia Pediconi;Marcella Fulco

  • Muscle-specific expression of the cardiac alpha-actin gene requires MyoD1, CArG-box binding factor, and Sp1.

    Vittorio Sartorelli;Keith A. Webster;Larry Kedes

  • Mir-214-Dependent Regulation of the Polycomb Protein Ezh2 in Skeletal Muscle and Embryonic Stem Cells

    Aster H. Juan;Roshan M. Kumar;Joseph G. Marx;Richard A. Young

  • STATs shape the active enhancer landscape of T cell populations.

    Golnaz Vahedi;Hayato Takahashi;Shingo Nakayamada;Hong-wei Sun

  • Super-enhancers delineate disease-associated regulatory nodes in T cells

    Golnaz Vahedi;Yuka Kanno;Yasuko Furumoto;Kan Jiang

  • Functional and morphological recovery of dystrophic muscles in mice treated with deacetylase inhibitors.

    G C Minetti;C Colussi;R Adami;C Serra

Frequent Co-Authors

Pier Lorenzo Puri
Pier Lorenzo Puri Discovery Institute
Larry Kedes
Larry Kedes University of Southern California
Eric P. Hoffman
Eric P. Hoffman Binghamton University
John J. O'Shea
John J. O'Shea National Institutes of Health
Yuka Kanno
Yuka Kanno National Institutes of Health
Hong-Wei Sun
Hong-Wei Sun National Institutes of Health
Marco Sandri
Marco Sandri University of Padua
Kai Ge
Kai Ge National Institutes of Health
Cristiano Simone
Cristiano Simone University of Bari Aldo Moro

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