Messina Giovanni
Assistant Professor of Genetics
room 5050, building U3, tel.: +39 02 6448 3517
lab 3049, building U3, tel. +39 02 6448 3543
Keywords
DNA damage, genome stability, DSB checkpoint, cancer, epigenetics, cell cycle, tumorigenesis, aging diseases, neurodegenerative and neurological diseases
Research areas
Mechanisms maintaining genome stability: DNA damage cehckpoint, control of DNA replication in stress conditions, repair of DNA double-strand breaks.
Selected articles
Messina G, Celauro E, Marsano RM, Prozzillo Y, and Dimitri P. Epigenetic Silencing of P-Element Reporter Genes Induced by Transcriptionally Active Domains of Constitutive Heterochromatin in Drosophila melanogaster. genes 2022 14(1), 12. DOI: 10.3390/genes14010012
Messina G, Prozzillo Y, Bizzochi G, Marsano RM and Dimitri P. The Green Valley of Drosophila melanogaster Constitutive Heterochromatin: Protein-Coding Genes Involved in Cell Division Control. Cells 2022, 11:3058. DOI: 10.3390/cells11193058
Messina G1*, Prozzillo Y*, Santopietro MV, Delle Monache F and Dimitri P. Evolutionarily conserved relocation of chromatin remodeling complexes to the mitotic apparatus. BMC Biol 2022, 20, 172. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-022-01365-5
Messina G , Prozzillo Y, Delle Monache F, Santopietro MV, Atterrato MT and Dimitri P. ATPase SRCAP is a new player in cell division, uncovering molecular aspects of Floating-Harbor syndrome. BMC Biol. 2021 Sep 2;19(1):184. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01109-x
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