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Lebreton S, Paladino S, Lelek M, Tramier M, Zimmer C, Zurzolo C. Actin cytoskeleton differently regulates cell surface organization of GPI-anchored proteins in polarized epithelial cells and fibroblasts. Front Mol Biosci. 2024;11:1360142. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2024.1360142. eCollection 2024. PubMed PMID: 38774234; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11106487.
Pepe A, Groen J, Zurzolo C, Sartori-Rupp A. Correlative cryo-microscopy pipelines for in situ cellular studies. Methods Cell Biol. 2024;187:175-203. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.02.038. Epub 2024 Mar 27. PubMed PMID: 38705624.
Lou E, Vérollet C, Winkler F, Zurzolo C, Valdebenito-Silva S, Eugenin E. Tunneling nanotubes and tumor microtubes-Emerging data on their roles in intercellular communication and pathophysiology: Summary of an International FASEB Catalyst Conference October 2023. FASEB J. 2024 Mar 15;38(5):e23514. doi: 10.1096/fj.202302551. PubMed PMID: 38466151.
Henderson JM, Ljubojevic N, Belian S, Chaze T, Castaneda D, Battistella A, Giai Gianetto Q, Matondo M, Descroix S, Bassereau P, Zurzolo C. Tunnelling nanotube formation is driven by Eps8/IRSp53-dependent linear actin polymerization. EMBO J. 2023 Dec 11;42(24):e113761. doi: 10.15252/embj.2023113761. Epub 2023 Nov 27. PubMed PMID: 38009333; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10711657.
Khare H, Dongo Mendoza N, Zurzolo C. CellWalker: a user-friendly and modular computational pipeline for morphological analysis of microscopy images. Bioinformatics. 2023 Dec 1;39(12). doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad710. PubMed PMID: 38060265; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10713108.
Belian S, Korenkova O, Zurzolo C. Actin-based protrusions at a glance. J Cell Sci. 2023 Nov 15;136(22). doi: 10.1242/jcs.261156. Epub 2023 Nov 21. PubMed PMID: 37987375.
Sáenz-de-Santa-María I, Henderson JM, Pepe A, Zurzolo C. Identification and Characterization of Tunneling Nanotubes for Intercellular Trafficking. Curr Protoc. 2023 Nov;3(11):e939. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.939. PubMed PMID: 37994667.
Liu D, Paladino S, Zurzolo C, Lebreton S. Calcium-binding Cab45 regulates the polarized apical secretion of soluble proteins in epithelial cells. Mol Biol Cell. 2023 Jul 1;34(8):br12. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E22-12-0549. Epub 2023 May 10. PubMed PMID: 37163315; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10398874.
Chakraborty R, Nonaka T, Hasegawa M, Zurzolo C. Tunnelling nanotubes between neuronal and microglial cells allow bi-directional transfer of α-Synuclein and mitochondria. Cell Death Dis. 2023 May 18;14(5):329. doi: 10.1038/s41419-023-05835-8. PubMed PMID: 37202391; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10195781.
Cordero Cervantes D, Khare H, Wilson AM, Mendoza ND, Coulon-Mahdi O, Lichtman JW, Zurzolo C. 3D reconstruction of the cerebellar germinal layer reveals tunneling connections between developing granule cells. Sci Adv. 2023 Apr 5;9(14):eadf3471. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf3471. Epub 2023 Apr 5. PubMed PMID: 37018410; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10075961.
Chakraborty R, Belian S, Zurzolo C. Hijacking intercellular trafficking for the spread of protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on tunneling nanotubes (TNTs). Extracell Vesicles Circ Nucleic Acids. 2023 March; 4:27-43. doi: doi:10.20517/evcna.2023.05.
Zurzolo C. Viruses show the way. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2022 Nov;23(11):698. doi: 10.1038/s41580-022-00525-3. PubMed PMID: 35945273.
Glick BS, Zurzolo C. Editorial overview: Membranes in perpetual motion. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2022 Oct;78:102128. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2022.102128. Epub 2022 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 36103730.
Pepe A, Pietropaoli S, Vos M, Barba-Spaeth G, Zurzolo C. Tunneling nanotubes provide a route for SARS-CoV-2 spreading. Sci Adv. 2022 Jul 22;8(29):eabo0171. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0171. Epub 2022 Jul 20. PubMed PMID: 35857849; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9299553.
Henderson JM, Zurzolo C. Seeing eye to eye: photoreceptors employ nanotube-like connections for material transfer. EMBO J. 2021 Nov 15;40(22):e109727. doi: 10.15252/embj.2021109727. Epub 2021 Oct 18. PubMed PMID: 34661299; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8591533.
Lebreton S, Paladino S, Liu D, Nitti M, von Blume J, Pinton P, Zurzolo C. Calcium levels in the Golgi complex regulate clustering and apical sorting of GPI-APs in polarized epithelial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Aug 17;118(33). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2014709118. PubMed PMID: 34389665; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8379914.
Zurzolo C. Tunneling nanotubes: Reshaping connectivity. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2021 Aug;71:139-147. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2021.03.003. Epub 2021 Apr 15. Review. PubMed PMID: 33866130.
Dilsizoglu Senol A, Samarani M, Syan S, Guardia CM, Nonaka T, Liv N, Latour-Lambert P, Hasegawa M, Klumperman J, Bonifacino JS, Zurzolo C. α-Synuclein fibrils subvert lysosome structure and function for the propagation of protein misfolding between cells through tunneling nanotubes. PLoS Biol. 2021 Jul;19(7):e3001287. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001287. eCollection 2021 Jul. PubMed PMID: 34283825; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8291706.
Cordero Cervantes D, Zurzolo C. Peering into tunneling nanotubes-The path forward. EMBO J. 2021 Apr 15;40(8):e105789. doi: 10.15252/embj.2020105789. Epub 2021 Mar 1. Review. PubMed PMID: 33646572; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8047439.
Ljubojevic N, Henderson JM, Zurzolo C. The Ways of Actin: Why Tunneling Nanotubes Are Unique Cell Protrusions. Trends Cell Biol. 2021 Feb;31(2):130-142. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2020.11.008. Epub 2020 Dec 9. Review. PubMed PMID: 33309107.
Pinto G, Saenz-de-Santa-Maria I, Chastagner P, Perthame E, Delmas C, Toulas C, Moyal-Jonathan-Cohen E, Brou C, Zurzolo C. Patient-derived glioblastoma stem cells transfer mitochondria through tunneling nanotubes in tumor organoids. Biochem J. 2021 Jan 15;478(1):21-39. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20200710. PubMed PMID: 33245115; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7800365.
Chastagner P, Loria F, Vargas JY, Tois J, I Diamond M, Okafo G, Brou C, Zurzolo C. Fate and propagation of endogenously formed Tau aggregates in neuronal cells. EMBO Mol Med. 2020 Dec 7;12(12):e12025. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202012025. Epub 2020 Nov 12. PubMed PMID: 33179866; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7721367.
Bhat S, Ljubojevic N, Zhu S, Fukuda M, Echard A, Zurzolo C. Rab35 and its effectors promote formation of tunneling nanotubes in neuronal cells. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 8;10(1):16803. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74013-z. PubMed PMID: 33033331; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7544914.
Pinto G, Brou C, Zurzolo C. Tunneling Nanotubes: The Fuel of Tumor Progression?. Trends Cancer. 2020 Oct;6(10):874-888. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2020.04.012. Epub 2020 May 26. Review. PubMed PMID: 32471688.
Zurzolo C. Evidence that tunnelling nanotube-like structures connect cells in mice. Nature. 2020 Sep;585(7823):32-33. doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02315-3. PubMed PMID: 32788697.
Kühn S, Bergqvist J, Gil M, Valenzuela C, Barrio L, Lebreton S, Zurzolo C, Enninga J. Actin Assembly around the Shigella-Containing Vacuole Promotes Successful Infection. Cell Rep. 2020 May 12;31(6):107638. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107638. PubMed PMID: 32402280; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7225751.
Korenkova O, Pepe A, Zurzolo C. Fine intercellular connections in development: TNTs, cytonemes, or intercellular bridges?. Cell Stress. 2020 Jan 7;4(2):30-43. doi: 10.15698/cst2020.02.212. Review. PubMed PMID: 32043076; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6997949.
Vargas JY, Loria F, Wu YJ, Córdova G, Nonaka T, Bellow S, Syan S, Hasegawa M, van Woerden GM, Trollet C, Zurzolo C. The Wnt/Ca(2+) pathway is involved in interneuronal communication mediated by tunneling nanotubes. EMBO J. 2019 Dec 2;38(23):e101230. doi: 10.15252/embj.2018101230. Epub 2019 Oct 18. PubMed PMID: 31625188; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6885744.
Grudina C, Kouroupi G, Nonaka T, Hasegawa M, Matsas R, Zurzolo C. Human NPCs can degrade α-syn fibrils and transfer them preferentially in a cell contact-dependent manner possibly through TNT-like structures. Neurobiol Dis. 2019 Dec;132:104609. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.104609. Epub 2019 Sep 5. PubMed PMID: 31494284.
Lebreton S, Paladino S, Zurzolo C. Clustering in the Golgi apparatus governs sorting and function of GPI-APs in polarized epithelial cells. FEBS Lett. 2019 Sep;593(17):2351-2365. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.13573. Epub 2019 Sep 2. Review. PubMed PMID: 31400147.
Zurzolo C, Enninga J. The best of both worlds- bringing together cell biology and infection at the Institut Pasteur. Microbes Infect. 2019 Jun-Jul;21(5-6):254-262. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2019.06.014. Epub 2019 Jul 30. PubMed PMID: 31374255.
Dilsizoglu Senol A, Pepe A, Grudina C, Sassoon N, Reiko U, Bousset L, Melki R, Piel J, Gugger M, Zurzolo C. Effect of tolytoxin on tunneling nanotube formation and function. Sci Rep. 2019 Apr 5;9(1):5741. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42161-6. PubMed PMID: 30952909; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6450976.
Vargas JY, Grudina C, Zurzolo C. The prion-like spreading of α-synuclein: From in vitro to in vivo models of Parkinson's disease. Ageing Res Rev. 2019 Mar;50:89-101. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2019.01.012. Epub 2019 Jan 25. Review. PubMed PMID: 30690184.
Sartori-Rupp A, Cordero Cervantes D, Pepe A, Gousset K, Delage E, Corroyer-Dulmont S, Schmitt C, Krijnse-Locker J, Zurzolo C. Correlative cryo-electron microscopy reveals the structure of TNTs in neuronal cells. Nat Commun. 2019 Jan 21;10(1):342. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-08178-7. PubMed PMID: 30664666; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6341166.
Zhu S, Bhat S, Syan S, Kuchitsu Y, Fukuda M, Zurzolo C. Rab11a-Rab8a cascade regulates the formation of tunneling nanotubes through vesicle recycling. J Cell Sci. 2018 Oct 5;131(19). doi: 10.1242/jcs.215889. PubMed PMID: 30209134.
Lebreton S, Zurzolo C, Paladino S. Organization of GPI-anchored proteins at the cell surface and its physiopathological relevance. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. 2018 Aug;53(4):403-419. doi: 10.1080/10409238.2018.1485627. Epub 2018 Jul 24. Review. PubMed PMID: 30040489.
Zurzolo C. Synergistic inactivation of AXL: a (cross)road to cure ovarian cancer?. EMBO Rep. 2018 Aug;19(8). doi: 10.15252/embr.201846492. Epub 2018 Jul 2. PubMed PMID: 29967225; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6073200.
Paladino S, Lebreton S, Lelek M, Riccio P, De Nicola S, Zimmer C, Zurzolo C. GPI-anchored proteins are confined in subdiffraction clusters at the apical surface of polarized epithelial cells. Biochem J. 2017 Dec 1;474(24):4075-4090. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20170582. PubMed PMID: 29046391; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5712066.
Loria F, Vargas JY, Bousset L, Syan S, Salles A, Melki R, Zurzolo C. α-Synuclein transfer between neurons and astrocytes indicates that astrocytes play a role in degradation rather than in spreading. Acta Neuropathol. 2017 Nov;134(5):789-808. doi: 10.1007/s00401-017-1746-2. Epub 2017 Jul 19. PubMed PMID: 28725967.
Ariazi J, Benowitz A, De Biasi V, Den Boer ML, Cherqui S, Cui H, Douillet N, Eugenin EA, Favre D, Goodman S, Gousset K, Hanein D, Israel DI, Kimura S, Kirkpatrick RB, Kuhn N, Jeong C, Lou E, Mailliard R, Maio S, Okafo G, Osswald M, Pasquier J, Polak R, Pradel G, de Rooij B, Schaeffer P, Skeberdis VA, Smith IF, Tanveer A, Volkmann N, Wu Z, Zurzolo C. Tunneling Nanotubes and Gap Junctions-Their Role in Long-Range Intercellular Communication during Development, Health, and Disease Conditions. Front Mol Neurosci. 2017;10:333. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2017.00333. eCollection 2017. Review. PubMed PMID: 29089870; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5651011.
Victoria GS, Zurzolo C. The spread of prion-like proteins by lysosomes and tunneling nanotubes: Implications for neurodegenerative diseases. J Cell Biol. 2017 Sep 4;216(9):2633-2644. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201701047. Epub 2017 Jul 19. Review. PubMed PMID: 28724527; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5584166.
Sarnataro D, Pepe A, Zurzolo C. Cell Biology of Prion Protein. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2017;150:57-82. doi: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2017.06.018. Epub 2017 Jul 29. Review. PubMed PMID: 28838675.
Pepe A, Avolio R, Matassa DS, Esposito F, Nitsch L, Zurzolo C, Paladino S, Sarnataro D. Regulation of sub-compartmental targeting and folding properties of the Prion-like protein Shadoo. Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 16;7(1):3731. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03969-2. PubMed PMID: 28623368; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5473912.
Zhu S, Abounit S, Korth C, Zurzolo C. Transfer of disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 aggregates between neuronal-like cells occurs in tunnelling nanotubes and is promoted by dopamine. Open Biol. 2017 Mar;7(3). doi: 10.1098/rsob.160328. PubMed PMID: 28275106; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5376705.
Delage E, Cervantes DC, Pénard E, Schmitt C, Syan S, Disanza A, Scita G, Zurzolo C. Differential identity of Filopodia and Tunneling Nanotubes revealed by the opposite functions of actin regulatory complexes. Sci Rep. 2016 Dec 23;6:39632. doi: 10.1038/srep39632. PubMed PMID: 28008977; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5180355.
Abounit S, Bousset L, Loria F, Zhu S, de Chaumont F, Pieri L, Olivo-Marin JC, Melki R, Zurzolo C. Tunneling nanotubes spread fibrillar α-synuclein by intercellular trafficking of lysosomes. EMBO J. 2016 Oct 4;35(19):2120-2138. doi: 10.15252/embj.201593411. Epub 2016 Aug 22. PubMed PMID: 27550960; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5048354.
Abounit S, Wu JW, Duff K, Victoria GS, Zurzolo C. Tunneling nanotubes: A possible highway in the spreading of tau and other prion-like proteins in neurodegenerative diseases. Prion. 2016 Sep 2;10(5):344-351. doi: 10.1080/19336896.2016.1223003. PubMed PMID: 27715442; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5105909.
Arkhipenko A, Syan S, Victoria GS, Lebreton S, Zurzolo C. PrPC Undergoes Basal to Apical Transcytosis in Polarized Epithelial MDCK Cells. PLoS One. 2016;11(7):e0157991. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157991. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 27389581; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4936696.
Karlikow M, Goic B, Mongelli V, Salles A, Schmitt C, Bonne I, Zurzolo C, Saleh MC. Drosophila cells use nanotube-like structures to transfer dsRNA and RNAi machinery between cells. Sci Rep. 2016 Jun 3;6:27085. doi: 10.1038/srep27085. PubMed PMID: 27255932; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4891776.
Requena JR, Kristensson K, Korth C, Zurzolo C, Simmons M, Aguilar-Calvo P, Aguzzi A, Andreoletti O, Benestad SL, Böhm R, Brown K, Calgua B, Del Río JA, Espinosa JC, Girones R, Godsave S, Hoelzle LE, Knittler MR, Kuhn F, Legname G, Laeven P, Mabbott N, Mitrova E, Müller-Schiffmann A, Nuvolone M, Peters PJ, Raeber A, Roth K, Schmitz M, Schroeder B, Sonati T, Stitz L, Taraboulos A, Torres JM, Yan ZX, Zerr I. The Priority position paper: Protecting Europe's food chain from prions. Prion. 2016 May 3;10(3):165-81. doi: 10.1080/19336896.2016.1175801. PubMed PMID: 27220820; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4981192.
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