Publications From The Santos Lab

Alpha satellite RNA marks the perinucleolar compartment and represses ribosomal RNA expression in naïve human embryonic stem cells
Authors: Mittal K, Ataei L, Ramalho-Santos M.
Reference: bioRxiv, 2025.07.11.664446; doi: 10.1101/2025.07.11.664446

LINE1 elements at distal junctions of rDNA repeats regulate nucleolar organization in human embryonic stem cells
Authors: Ataei L, Zhang J, Monis S, Giemza K, Mittal K, Yang J, Shimomura M, McStay B, Wilson MD, Ramalho-Santos M.
Reference: Genes Dev, 2025 Feb 3;39(3-4):280-298. doi: 10.1101/gad.351979.124
PMID: 39797762

LINE1 and PRC2 control nucleolar organization and repression of the 8C state in human ESCs
Authors: Zhang J, Ataei L, Mittal K, Wu L, Caldwell L, Huynh L, Sarajideen S, Tse K, Simon MM, Mazid A, Cook DP, Trcka D, Kwan T, Hoffman MM, Wrana JL, Esteban MA, Ramalho-Santos M.
Reference: Developmental Cell, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2024.09.024
Depletion of nuclear LINE1 RNA in mouse ESCs and embryos
Authors: Percharde M, Lin CJ, Ramalho-Santos M.
Reference: STAR Protoc, 2021 Aug 9;2(3):100726. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100726
PMID: 34409306
Homotypic clustering of L1 and B1/Alu repeats compartmentalizes the 3D genome
Authors: Lu JY, Chang L, Li T, Wang T, Yin Y, Zhan G, Han X, Zhang K, Tao Y, Percharde M, Wang L, Peng Q, Yan P, Zhang H, Bi X, Shao W, Hong Y, Wu Z, Ma R, Wang P, Li W, Zhang J, Chang Z, Hou Y, Zhu B, Santos MR, Li P, Xie W, Na J, Sun Y, Shen X.
Reference : Cell Research. 2021 Jan 29, 10.1038/s41422-020-00466-6
PMID: 33514913
Genomic Repeats Categorize Genes with Distinct Functions for Orchestrated Regulation
Authors: Lu JY, Shao W, Chang L, Yin Y, Li T, Zhang H, Hong Y, Percharde M, Guo L, Wu Z, Liu L, Liu W, Yan P, Ramalho-Santos M, Sun Y, Shen X.
Reference: Cell Rep. 2020 Mar 10; 30 (10) :3296-3311
PMID: 32160538
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger: Transposons as Dual Players in Chromatin Regulation and Genomic Variation
Authors: Percharde M, Sultana T, Ramalho-Santos M.
Reference: Bioessays. 2020 Feb 13. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201900232
PMID: 32053231
A LINE1-Nucleolin Partnership Regulates Early Development and ESC Identity.
Authors: Percharde M, Lin CJ, Yin Y, Guan J, Peixoto GA, Bulut-Karslioglu A, Biechele S, Huang B, Shen X, Ramalho-Santos M.
Reference: Cell. 2018 Jun 19. pii: S0092-8674(18)30655-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.043.
PMID: 29937225