Alain Verreault
Mécanismes moléculaires permettant aux cellules de réparer leur ADN
- Professeur titulaire
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Faculté de médecine - Département de pathologie et biologie cellulaire
Pavillon Marcelle-Coutu, room 3306-13
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Profile
Research expertise
Comprendre les mécanismes qui permettent la reconstitution de l’ADN après qu’il ait été endommagé par les nombreux éléments chimiques présents dans l’environnement et ainsi améliorer les différents traitements pour les personnes cancéreuses qui doivent absorber des produits chimiques aux fins de la chimiothérapie.
Thèmes
- Chromosome biogenesis
- Nucleosome
- DNA repair
- Chromatin
- DNA damage
- Genome integrity
- Genomic instability
- Chemotherapy
- Antifungal therapy
- Vitamin B3
- Nocotinamide
Intérêts de recherche
- Chromatin assembly during DNA replication
- Links between chromatin assembly and the repair of DNA lesions caused by cancer chemotherapeutic agents
- Biological functions of histone acetylation and deacetylation
- Histone deacetylases as a novel targets for treatment
Awards and recognitions
- Chaire de recherche du Canada (IRSC)
- Programme du fonds Merck, Sharp & Dohme de la Faculté de Médecine de l'Université de Montréal
Affiliations and responsabilities
Research affiliations
Professional titles and affiliations
Clinical and professional activities
Discovered a novel feature of the chromosome cycle that plays an important role in the response to DNA damage causes by cancer chemotherapeutic agents
Teaching and supervision
Student supervision
Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)
Regulation of replication dependent nucleosome assembly
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation and deacetylation pathways as targets for novel antifungal therapies in Candida albicans
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Study of a novel evolutionarily conserved pattern of histone acetylation
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Quantitative proteomics methods for the analysis of histone post-translational modifications
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Homéostasie des histones en réponse au dommage à l’ADN et étude d’inhibiteurs de désacétylases d’importance clinique
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Study of histone H3 lysine 56 deacetylation in saccharomyces cerevisiae
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Analytical strategies for the comprehensive profiling of histone post translational modifications by mass spectrometry and implications for functional analyses
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Mass spectrometry as a tool to dissect the role of chromatin assembly factors in regulating nucleosome assembly
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Projects
Research projects
Histone protein supply and demand: life on a knife's edge
Supplément COVID-19 CRSNG_Histone protein supply and demand: life on a knife's edge
UNE APPROCHE CHIMIO- ET PROTEO-GENOMIQUE EN MEDECINE PERSONNALISEE POUR LA LEUCEMIE MYELOIDE AIGUE
CHAIRE DE RECHERCHE DU CANADA - NUCLEOSOME ASSEMBLY AND GENOME INTEGRITY
HISTONE DEACETYLATION AND THE DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE
HISTONE DEACETYLATION AND THE DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE
CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY DURING DNA REPLICATION
CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY DURING DNA REPLICATION
Publications and presentations
Publications
- Delgoshaie N, Tang X, Kanshin ED, Williams EC, Rudner AD, Thibault P, Tyers M (2014) and Verreault A. Regulation of the histone deacetylase Hst3 by cyclin-dependent kinases and the ubiquitin ligase SCFCdc4. J. Biol. Chem. 289: 13186-13196.
- Jeffery, D., Kakusho, N., You, Z., Wyse, B., Gharib, M., Weinreich, M., Thibault, P., Verreault, A.,Masai, H. and Yankulov, K. (2014) Cdc28 is a major Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 kinase that regulates its association with chromatin; Cell Cycle 14: 74-85.
- Simoneau, A., Delgoshaie, N., Celic, I., Dai, J., Abshiru, N., Costantino, S., Thibault, P., Boeke, J.D., Verreault, A., and Wurtele, H. (2015) Interplay between histone H3 lysine 56 deacetylation and chromatin modifiers in response to DNA damage. Genetics, 200: 185-205.
- Abshiru, N., Caron-Lizotte O., Rajan, R.E., Jamai, A., Pomiès, C., Verreault, A*., and Thibault, P.* (2015) Discovery of protein acetylation patterns by deconvolution of peptide isomer mass spectra. Nature Commun., 6: 8648*Co-corresponding authors.
- Sincennes, M.-C., Humbert, M., Grondin, B., Lisi, V., Haman, A., Cazaux C., Affar, el-B., Verreault, A. and Hoang, T. (2016) The LMO2 oncogene regulates DNA replication in hematopoietic cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 113: 1393-1398.
Areas of expertise
- Apoptosis and Cancer
- Cell
- Chemotherapy
- Radiotherapy