The aim of the Misteli laboratory is to understand how genomes are organized in vivo and how this organization contributes to genome function in health and disease. We have made significant progress in several areas: We have extended our earlier efforts to develop imaging methods to visualize genome function in living cells. In particular, we have developed an experimental system which allows us for the first time to visualize the behavior of broken DNA regions in living cells. We have used this system to probe the mechanism by which cancer chromosome translocations occur in intact cells. We have also continued our ongoing work on exploring the spatial organization of the genome in the interphase cell nucleus. We have developed novel software tools to analyze spatial genome positioning and we have applied it to the analysis of genome organization differences in normal and cancer cells. We are applying these methods to the development of novel cancer diagnosis strategies. We have also developed high-throughput imaging approaches to map genome regions with high precision in a large number of samples allowing for systematic spatial mapping and implementation of screening approaches for discovery. Finally, we are exploring the molecular mechanisms of the premature aging disease Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), in particular as a means to uncover the process of aging-related tumor formation. We are exploring the mechanism by which higher order genome organization is lost in HGPS patient cells and we are investigating the molecular basis for the organismal defects in HGPS patients and during normal aging. We are also using HGPS to explore the molecular mechanisms of aging-associated cancer formation.

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National Institute of Health (NIH)
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Investigator-Initiated Intramural Research Projects (ZIA)
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9343591
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2016
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Serebryannyy, Leonid; Misteli, Tom (2018) Protein sequestration at the nuclear periphery as a potential regulatory mechanism in premature aging. J Cell Biol 217:21-37
Baranes-Bachar, Keren; Levy-Barda, Adva; Oehler, Judith et al. (2018) The Ubiquitin E3/E4 Ligase UBE4A Adjusts Protein Ubiquitylation and Accumulation at Sites of DNA Damage, Facilitating Double-Strand Break Repair. Mol Cell 69:866-878.e7
Padmanabhan, S; Misteli, T; DeVoe, D L (2017) Controlled droplet discretization and manipulation using membrane displacement traps. Lab Chip 17:3717-3724
Zane, Linda; Chapus, Fleur; Pegoraro, Gianluca et al. (2017) HiHiMap: single-cell quantitation of histones and histone posttranslational modifications across the cell cycle by high-throughput imaging. Mol Biol Cell 28:2290-2302
Kubben, Nard; Misteli, Tom (2017) Shared molecular and cellular mechanisms of premature ageing and ageing-associated diseases. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 18:595-609
DeBoy, Emily; Puttaraju, Madaiah; Jailwala, Parthav et al. (2017) Identification of novel RNA isoforms of LMNA. Nucleus 8:573-582
Larson, Daniel R; Misteli, Tom (2017) The genome-seeing it clearly now. Science 357:354-355
Shachar, Sigal; Misteli, Tom (2017) Causes and consequences of nuclear gene positioning. J Cell Sci 130:1501-1508
Finn, Elizabeth H; Pegoraro, Gianluca; Shachar, Sigal et al. (2017) Comparative analysis of 2D and 3D distance measurements to study spatial genome organization. Methods 123:47-55
Pegoraro, Gianluca; Misteli, Tom (2017) High-Throughput Imaging for the Discovery of Cellular Mechanisms of Disease. Trends Genet 33:604-615

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