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Genevieve Deblois

University of Montreal, IRIC
Verified email at mail.mcgill.ca
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[HTML][HTML] Functional and physiological genomics of estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) in health and disease

G Deblois, V Giguère - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2011 - Elsevier
Orphan nuclear receptors, in a manner comparable to classic steroid hormone receptors,
regulate key developmental and physiological processes. However, the lack of appropriate …

Location analysis of estrogen receptor α target promoters reveals that FOXA1 defines a domain of the estrogen response

J Laganière, G Deblois, C Lefebvre… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Nuclear receptors can activate diverse biological pathways within a target cell in response
to their cognate ligands, but how this compartmentalization is achieved at the level of gene …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic regulation of the epigenome drives lethal infantile ependymoma

…, A Rastan, SL Krumholtz, M Ly, M Ahmadi, G Deblois… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Posterior fossa A (PFA) ependymomas are lethal malignancies of the hindbrain in infants and
toddlers. Lacking highly recurrent somatic mutations, PFA ependymomas are proposed to …

Genome-wide computational prediction of transcriptional regulatory modules reveals new insights into human gene expression

…, C Poitras, J Laganière, C Lefèbvre, G Deblois… - Genome …, 2006 - genome.cshlp.org
The identification of regulatory regions is one of the most important and challenging problems
toward the functional annotation of the human genome. In higher eukaryotes, transcription-…

Oestrogen-related receptors in breast cancer: control of cellular metabolism and beyond

G Deblois, V Giguere - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
Oestrogen-related receptors (ERRs) are orphan nuclear receptors that were initially investigated
in breast cancer because of their structural relationship to oestrogen receptors. Recent …

An acetylation switch modulates the transcriptional activity of estrogen-related receptor α

BJ Wilson, AM Tremblay, G Deblois… - Molecular …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Posttranslational modifications are instrumental to achieve gene- and tissue-specific
regulatory outcomes by transcription factors. Nuclear receptors are dynamically modulated by …

[HTML][HTML] PRMT inhibition induces a viral mimicry response in triple-negative breast cancer

…, WJ Chen, LX Zhang, G Deblois… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive breast cancer subtype with the
worst prognosis and few effective therapies. Here we identified MS023, an inhibitor of type I …

Genome-wide identification of direct target genes implicates estrogen-related receptor α as a determinant of breast cancer heterogeneity

G Deblois, JA Hall, MC Perry, J Laganiere… - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
Estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα) is an orphan nuclear receptor, the expression of which
correlates with negative prognosis in breast cancer. ERRα shares functional features with the …

[HTML][HTML] GLUT1 inhibition blocks growth of RB1-positive triple negative breast cancer

Q Wu, W Ba-Alawi, G Deblois, J Cruickshank… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a deadly form of breast cancer due to the development
of resistance to chemotherapy affecting over 30% of patients. New therapeutics and …

[HTML][HTML] PGC-1α supports glutamine metabolism in breast cancer

S McGuirk, SP Gravel, G Deblois, DJ Papadopoli… - Cancer & …, 2013 - Springer
Background Glutamine metabolism is a central metabolic pathway in cancer. Recently, reductive
carboxylation of glutamine for lipogenesis has been shown to constitute a key anabolic …