Simon Elsässer

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Article: SCIENCE. 2022;376(6592):476-483

Cancer cells use self-inflicted DNA breaks to evade growth limits imposed by genotoxic stress

Larsen BD; Benada J; Yung PYK; Bell RAV; Pappas G; Urban V; Ahlskog JK; Kuo TT; Janscak P; Megeney LA; Elsaesser SJ; Bartek J; Sorensen CS
Article: NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH. 2022;50(3):e13

Genome-wide mapping of G-quadruplex structures with CUT&Tag

Lyu J; Shao R; Yung PYK; Elsasser SJ
Article: CHEMBIOCHEM. 2021;22(22):3208-3213

Engineered Human Induced Pluripotent Cells Enable Genetic Code Expansion in Brain Organoids

van Husen LS; Katsori A-M; Meineke B; Tjernberg LO; Schedin-Weiss S; Elsasser SJ
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2021

Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 shields naïve human pluripotent cells from trophectoderm differentiation

Kumar B; Navarro C; Winblad N; Schell J; Zhao C; Lanner F; Elsässer S
Article: NATURE METHODS. 2016;13(2):158-164

Genetic code expansion in stable cell lines enables encoded chromatin modification

Elsaesser SJ; Ernst RJ; Walker OS; Chin JW
Article: NATURE. 2015;522(7555):240-244

Histone H3.3 is required for endogenous retroviral element silencing in embryonic stem cells

Elsasser SJ; Noh K-M; Diaz N; Allis CD; Banaszynski LA
Article: NATURE. 2012;491(7425):560-565

DAXX envelops a histone H3.3-H4 dimer for H3.3-specific recognition

Elsaesser SJ; Huang H; Lewis PW; Chin JW; Allis CD; Patel DJ

Articles

Article: BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS. 2024;1868(7):130619

Detection and quantification of Na,K-ATPase dimers in the plasma membrane of living cells by FRET-FCS

Nordahl L; Akkuratov EE; Heimgartner J; Schach K; Meineke B; Elsasser S; Wennmalm S; Brismar H
Article: CELL REPORTS: METHODS. 2023;3(11):100626

Dual stop codon suppression in mammalian cells with genomically integrated genetic code expansion machinery

Meineke B; Heimgartner J; Caridha R; Block MF; Kimler KJ; Pires MF; Landreh M; Elsasser SJ
Journal article: PHYSIOLOGY. 2023;38:5732603

Click chemistry, FRET-FCS, and expansion microscopy reveal that Na, K-ATPase forms complexes in the plasma membrane

Brismar H; Edwards S; Bauer S; Meineke B; Elsasser S; Wennmalm S
Journal article: PHYSIOLOGY. 2023;38:5732753

Expansion microscopy and biorthogonal labeling with non-canonical amino acids enables cluster analysis of Na, K-ATPase in the plasma membrane

Edwards S; Bauer S; Graef P; Meineke B; Elsasser S; Brismar H
Article: NATURE CELL BIOLOGY. 2023;25(4):579-591

Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome

Weigert R; Hetzel S; Bailly N; Haggerty C; Ilik IA; Yung PYK; Navarro C; Bolondi A; Kumar AS; Anania C; Braendl B; Meierhofer D; Lupianez DG; Mueller F-J; Aktas T; Elsaesser SJ; Kretzmer H; Smith ZD; Meissner A
Article: METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2023;2676:169-180

Generation of Amber Suppression Cell Lines Using CRISPR-Cas9.

Meineke B; Elsässer SJ
Article: NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH. 2022;50(15):8491-8511

TET1 regulates gene expression and repression of endogenous retroviruses independent of DNA demethylation

Stolz P; Mantero AS; Tvardovskiy A; Ugur E; Wange LE; Mulholland CB; Cheng Y; Wierer M; Enard W; Schneider R; Bartke T; Leonhardt H; Elsasser SJ; Bultmann S
Article: NATURE CELL BIOLOGY. 2022;24(6):845-857

Polycomb repressive complex 2 shields naive human pluripotent cells from trophectoderm differentiation

Kumar B; Navarro C; Winblad N; Schell JP; Zhao C; Weltner J; Baque-Vidal L; Salazar Mantero A; Petropoulos S; Lanner F; Elsasser SJ
Journal article: FASEB JOURNAL. 2022;36

Direct Observation of Na,K-ATPase Oligomers in The Plasma Membrane of Living Cells by FRET-FCS

Nordahl L; Wennmalm S; Jonsson J; Elsasser S; Akkuratov EE; Brismar H
Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2022;13(1):1223

Sirtuin-1 sensitive lysine-136 acetylation drives phase separation and pathological aggregation of TDP-43

Morato JG; Hans F; von Zweydorf F; Feederle R; Elsasser SJ; Skodras AA; Gloeckner CJ; Buratti E; Neumann M; Kahle PJ
Article: MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. 2022;18(1):e10407

Distinct transcription kinetics of pluripotent cell states

Shao R; Kumar B; Lidschreiber K; Lidschreiber M; Cramer P; Elsasser SJ
Journal article: CHEMBIOCHEM. 2021;22(22):3108

Cover Feature: Engineered Human Induced Pluripotent Cells Enable Genetic Code Expansion in Brain Organoids (ChemBioChem 22/2021)

van Husen LS; Katsori A; Meineke B; Tjernberg LO; Schedin‐Weiss S; Elsässer SJ
Article: SCIENCE ADVANCES. 2021;7(32):eabf7561

The exon-junction complex helicase eIF4A3 controls cell fate via coordinated regulation of ribosome biogenesis and translational output

Kanellis DC; Espinoza JA; Zisi A; Sakkas E; Bartkova J; Katsori A-M; Bostrom J; Dyrskjot L; Broholm H; Altun M; Elsasser SJ; Lindstrom MS; Bartek J
Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2021;12(1):3695

Multianalyte serology in home-sampled blood enables an unbiased assessment of the immune response against SARS-CoV-2

Roxhed N; Bendes A; Dale M; Mattsson C; Hanke L; Dodig-Crnkovic T; Christian M; Meineke B; Elsasser S; Andrell J; Havervall S; Thalin C; Eklund C; Dillner J; Beck O; Thomas CE; McInerney G; Hong M-G; Murrell B; Fredolini C; Schwenk JM
Article: BIOLOGIA FUTURA. 2021;72(2):119-125

Towards policies that capture the expected value of biomolecular diversity for drug discovery, human health, and well-being

Pesic M; Egamberdieva D; Kolodziejczyk B; Elsasser SJ; Neergheen VS; Kagansky A
Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2021;11(1):1820

Direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 using non-commercial RT-LAMP reagents on heat-inactivated samples

Alekseenko A; Barrett D; Pareja-Sanchez Y; Howard RJ; Strandback E; Ampah-Korsah H; Rovsnik U; Zuniga-Veliz S; Klenov A; Malloo J; Ye S; Liu X; Reinius B; Elsasser SJ; Nyman T; Sandh G; Yin X; Pelechano V
Article: FRONTIERS IN CHEMISTRY. 2021;9:768535

A Genetically Encoded Picolyl Azide for Improved Live Cell Copper Click Labeling

Meineke B; Heimgartner J; Craig AJ; Landreh M; Moodie LWK; Elsasser SJ
Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2020;142(47):20080-20087

Universal Single-Residue Terminal Labels for Fluorescent Live Cell Imaging of Microproteins

Lafranchi L; Schlesinger D; Kimler KJ; Elsasser SJ
Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2020;11(1):5095

An embryonic stem cell-specific heterochromatin state promotes core histone exchange in the absence of DNA accessibility

Navarro C; Lyu J; Katsori A-M; Caridha R; Elsasser SJ
Article: GENES & DEVELOPMENT. 2020;34(15-16):1065-1074

Human RTEL1 associates with Poldip3 to facilitate responses to replication stress and R-loop resolution

Bjorkman A; Johansen SL; Lin L; Schertzer M; Kanellis DC; Katsori A-M; Christensen ST; Luo Y; Andersen JS; Elsasser SJ; Londono-Vallejo A; Bartek J; Schou KB
Article: CELL REPORTS. 2020;31(12):107811

Site-Specific Incorporation of Two ncAAs for Two-Color Bioorthogonal Labeling and Crosslinking of Proteins on Live Mammalian Cells

Meineke B; Heimgertner J; Eirich J; Landreh M; Elsasser SJ
Article: JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE. 2019;72(2):537-548

Dual Bioorthogonal Labeling of the Amyloid-β Protein Precursor Facilitates Simultaneous Visualization of the Protein and Its Cleavage Products

van Husen LS; Schedin-Weiss S; Minh NT; Kazmi MA; Winblad B; Sakmar TP; Elsaesser SJ; Tjernberg LO
Article: CELL REPORTS. 2019;28(12):3274-3284.e5

Quantitative Multiplexed ChIP Reveals Global Alterations that Shape Promoter Bivalency in Ground State Embryonic Stem Cells

Kumar B; Elsasser SJ
Article: ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY. 2018;13(11):3087-3096

Methanomethylophilus alvus Mx1201 Provides Basis for Mutual Orthogonal Pyrrolysyl tRNA/Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Pairs in Mammalian Cells

Meineke B; Heimgartner J; Lafranchi L; Elsasser SJ
Article: METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2018;1728:237-245

Generation of Stable Amber Suppression Cell Lines.

Elsässer SJ
Article: MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. 2017;13(8):938

Network analyses identify liver-specific targets for treating liver diseases

Lee S; Zhang C; Liu Z; Klevstig M; Mukhopadhyay B; Bergentall M; Cinar R; Stahlman M; Sikanic N; Park JK; Deshmukh S; Harzandi AM; Kuijpers T; Grotli M; Elsasser SJ; Piening BD; Snyder M; Smith U; Nielsen J; Backhed F; Kunos G; Uhlen M; Boren J; Mardinoglu A
Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2016;138(3):718-721

Photoactivation of Mutant Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 2 Reveals Rapid Cancer-Associated Metabolic and Epigenetic Changes

Walker OS; Elsaesser SJ; Mahesh M; Bachman M; Balasubramanian S; Chin JW
Article: NEURON. 2015;87(1):77-94

Critical Role of Histone Turnover in Neuronal Transcription and Plasticity

Maze I; Wenderski W; Noh K-M; Bagot RC; Tzavaras N; Purushothaman I; Elsaesser SJ; Guo Y; Ionete C; Hurd YL; Tamminga CA; Halene T; Farrelly L; Soshnev AA; Wen D; Rafii S; Birtwistle MR; Akbarian S; Buchholz BA; Blitzer RD; Nestler EJ; Yuan Z-F; Garcia BA; Shen L; Molina H; Allis CD
Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2014;136(44):15577-15583

Efficient Multisite Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation in Mammalian Cells via Optimized Pyrrolysyl tRNA Synthetase/tRNA Expression and Engineered eRF1

Schmied WH; Elsaesser SJ; Uttamapinant C; Chin JW
Article: NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY. 2014;32(5):465-472

Proteome labeling and protein identification in specific tissues and at specific developmental stages in an animal

Elliott TS; Townsley FM; Bianco A; Ernst RJ; Sachdeva A; Elsaesser SJ; Davis L; Lang K; Pisa R; Greiss S; Lilley KS; Chin JW
Article: NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH. 2014;42(7):4318-4331

DAXX co-folds with H3.3/H4 using high local stability conferred by the H3.3 variant recognition residues

DeNizio JE; Elsaesser SJ; Black BE
Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2014;136(6):2240-2243

Genetic Encoding of Photocaged Cysteine Allows Photoactivation of TEV Protease in Live Mammalian Cells

Nguyen DP; Mahesh M; Elsaesser SJ; Hancock SM; Uttamapinant C; Chin JW
Article: CELL. 2013;155(1):107-120

Hira-Dependent Histone H3.3 Deposition Facilitates PRC2 Recruitment at Developmental Loci in ES Cells

Banaszynski LA; Wen D; Dewell S; Whitcomb SJ; Lin M; Diaz N; Elsaesser SJ; Chapgier A; Goldberg AD; Canaani E; Rafii S; Zheng D; Allis CD
Article: BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS. 2013;1819(3-4):211-221

Towards a mechanism for histone chaperones

Elsaesser SJ; D'Arcy S
Article: NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2012;19(8):819-823

Phosphorylation of histone H3 Ser10 establishes a hierarchy for subsequent intramolecular modification events

Liokatis S; Stuetzer A; Elsaesser SJ; Theillet F-X; Klingberg R; van Rossum B; Schwarzer D; Allis CD; Fischle W; Selenko P
Article: BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY. 2011;81(1):32-42

Anti-apoptotic Bc1-2 fails to form efficient complexes with pro-apoptotic Bak to protect from Celecoxib-induced apoptosis

Rudner J; Elsaesser SJ; Jendrossek V; Huber SM
Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2010;107(32):14075-14080

Daxx is an H3.3-specific histone chaperone and cooperates with ATRX in replication-independent chromatin assembly at telomeres

Lewis PW; Elsaesser SJ; Noh K-M; Stadler SC; Allis CD
Article: CELL. 2010;140(5):678-691

Distinct Factors Control Histone Variant H3.3 Localization at Specific Genomic Regions

Goldberg AD; Banaszynski LA; Noh K-M; Lewis PW; Elsaesser SJ; Stadler S; Dewell S; Law M; Guo X; Li X; Wen D; Chapgier A; DeKelver RC; Miller JC; Lee Y-L; Boydston EA; Holmes MC; Gregory PD; Greally JM; Rafii S; Yang C; Scambler PJ; Garrick D; Gibbons RJ; Higgs DR; Cristea IM; Urnov FD; Zheng D; Allis CD
Article: COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY. 2010;75:27-34

HIRA and Daxx constitute two independent histone H3.3-containing predeposition complexes.

Elsaesser SJ; Allis CD
Article: BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY. 2010;79(1):10-20

Differential effects of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members Mcl-1, Bcl-2, and Bcl-xL on Celecoxib-induced apoptosis

Rudner J; Elsaesser SJ; Mueller A-C; Belka C; Jendrossek V
Article: BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY. 2008;76(9):1082-1096

Importance of Bak for celecoxib-induced apoptosis

Mueller A-C; Handrick R; Elsaesser SJ; Rudner J; Henke G; Ganswindt U; Belka C; Jendrossek V
Article: NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 2008;15(3):321-329

In situ observation of protein phosphorylation by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy

Selenko P; Frueh DP; Elsaesser SJ; Haas W; Gygi SP; Wagner G
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Preprint: BIORXIV. 2023

A large-scale sORF screen identifies putative microproteins and provides insights into their interaction partners, localisation and function

Schlesinger D; Dirks C; Luzon CN; Lafranchi L; Eirich J; Elsässer S
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2023

Dual stop codon suppression in mammalian cells with genomically integrated genetic code expansion machinery

Meineke B; Heimgärtner J; Caridha R; Block M; Kimler K; Pires M; Landreh M; Elsässer S
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2022

minute: A MINUTE-ChIP data analysis workflow

Navarro C; Martin M; Elsässer S
Review: FEBS JOURNAL. 2022;289(1):53-74

Revisiting sORFs: overcoming challenges to identify and characterize functional microproteins

Schlesinger D; Elsasser SJ
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2021

Engineered human induced pluripotent cells enable genetic code expansion in brain organoids

van Husen L; Katsori A-M; Meineke B; Tjernberg L; Schedin-Weiss S; Elsässer S
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2021

Newly synthesized RNA Sequencing Characterizes Transcription Dynamics in Three Pluripotent States

Shao R; Kumar B; Lidschreiber K; Lidschreiber M; Cramer P; Elsässer S
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2021

Genome-wide mapping of G-quadruplex structures with CUT&Tag

Lyu J; Shao R; Elsässer S
Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2020

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 using non-commercial RT-LAMP reagents and raw samples

Alekseenko A; Barrett D; Pareja-Sanchez Y; J Howard R; Strandback E; Ampah-Korsah H; Rovšnik U; Zuniga-Veliz S; Klenov A; Malloo J; Ye S; Liu X; Reinius B; Elsässer S; Nyman T; Sandh G; Yin X; Pelechano V
Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2020

A translational multiplex serology approach to profile the prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in home-sampled blood

Roxhed N; Bendes A; Dale M; Mattsson C; Hanke L; Dodig-Crnkovic T; Christian M; Meineke B; Elsässer S; Andréll J; Havervall S; Thålin C; Eklund C; Dillner J; Beck O; Thomas C; McInerney G; Hong M-G; Murrell B; Fredolini C; Schwenk J
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2020

Sirtuin-1 Sensitive Lysine-136 Acetylation Drives Phase Separation and Pathological Aggregation of TDP-43

Morato JG; Hans F; von Zweydorf F; Feederle R; Elsässer S; Skodras A; Gloeckner CJ; Buratti E; Neumann M; Kahle P
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2020

An embryonic stem cell-specific heterochromatin state allows core histone exchange in the absence of DNA accessibility

Navarro C; Elsässer S
Review: DEVELOPMENT. 2019;146(19):dev178962

EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution

Drinnenberg IA; Berger F; Elsasser SJ; Andersen PR; Ausio J; Bickmore WA; Blackwell AR; Erwin DH; Gahan JM; Gaut BS; Harvey ZH; Henikoff S; Kao JY; Kurdistani SK; Lemos B; Levine MT; Luger K; Malik HS; Martin-Duran JM; Peichel CL; Renfree MB; Rutowicz K; Sarkies P; Schmitz RJ; Technau U; Thornton JW; Warnecke T; Wolfe KH
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2019

Quantitative multiplexed ChIP reveals global alterations that shape promoter bivalency in ground state embryonic stem cells

Kumar B; Elsässer S
Preprint: BIORXIV. 2018

Methanomethylophilus alvus Mx1201 provides basis for mutual orthogonal pyrrolysyl tRNA/aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase pairs in mammalian cells

Meineke B; Heimgärtner J; Lafranchi L; Elsässer S
Review: CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY. 2017;41:36-42

Evolution of epigenetic chromatin states

Yung PYK; Elsasser SJ
Editorial comment: JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HEALTH. 2017;7(2):020304

Biodiversity, drug discovery, and the future of global health: Introducing the biodiversity to biomedicine consortium, a call to action

Neergheen-Bhujun V; Awan AT; Baran Y; Bunnefeld N; Chan K; Edison Dela Cruz T; Egamberdieva D; Elsasser S; Johnson M-VV; Komai S; Konevega AL; Malone JH; Mason P; Nguon R; Piper R; Shrestha UB; Pesic M; Kagansky A
Letter: NATURE. 2017;548(7665):E7-E9

On the role of H3.3 in retroviral silencing reply

Elsasser SJ; Noh K-M; Diaz N; Allis CD; Banaszynski LA
Editorial comment: TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES. 2013;38(7):333-336

A common structural theme in histone chaperones mimics interhistone contacts

Elsaesser SJ
Meeting abstract: BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2013;104(2):29a-30a

Co-Folding of the Histone Chaperone DAXX and H3.3/H4

DeNizio JE; Elsaesser SJ; Allis CD; Black BE
Editorial comment: SCIENCE. 2011;331(6021):1145-1146

New Epigenetic Drivers of Cancers

Elsaesser SJ; Allis CD; Lewis PW
Review: CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT. 2010;20(2):110-117

New functions for an old variant: no substitute for histone H3.3

Elsaesser SJ; Goldberg AD; Allis CD
Conference publication: STRAHLENTHERAPIE UND ONKOLOGIE. 2008;184:15-16

The down regulation of Mcl-1 is a early and necessary step during the Celecoxib-induced apoptosis

Rudner J; Elsaesser S; Mueller A-C; Belka C; Jendrossek V
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Grants

Molecular mechanism underlying cell identity and lineage choices in mammalian early embryonic development

Swedish Research Council

1 January 2024 - 31 December 2028
Building the early human embryo

Swedish Research Council

1 December 2023 - 30 November 2028
Highly multiplexed, quantitative epigenetic profiling

European Research Council

1 January 2021 - 30 June 2022
Dynamic interplay of Polycomb complexes in establishing and maintaining cellular memory

Swedish Research Council

1 January 2021 - 31 December 2024
Genetic code expansion in neurons to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms in Alzheimer disease

Swedish Research Council

1 January 2018 - 31 December 2021
Studies of epigenetic mechanisms in the pancreas and brain tumors

Swedish Cancer Society

1 January 2018
Chromatin dynamics resolved by rapid protein labeling and bioorthogonal capture

European Research Council

1 January 2017 - 30 June 2022
Deciphering Spatial Signaling of Protein Clusters at the Membrane

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

1 January 2017 - 1 January 2022
Studies of epigenetic mechanisms in the pancreas and brain tumors

Swedish Cancer Society

1 January 2017
Chromatin plasticity and epigenetic silencing in pluripotent cells - understanding the dynamics and inheritance of stem cell chromatin

Swedish Research Council

1 January 2016 - 31 December 2019
Studies of epigenetic mechanisms in the pancreas and brain tumors

Swedish Cancer Society

1 January 2016

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