Berto Laboratory Publications

2022

Targeting de novo lipogenesis and the Lands cycle induces ferroptosis in KRAS-mutant lung cancer

Caterina Bartolacci, Cristina Andreani, Goncalo Dias do Vale, Stefano Berto, Margherita Melegari, Anna Coleen Crouch, Dodge L Baluya, George Kemble, Kurt Hodges, Jaqueline Starrett, Katerina Politi, Sandra Lynne Starnes, Daniele Lorenzini, Maria Gabriela Raso, Luisa Solis Soto, Carmen Behrens, Humam Kadara, Boning Gao, David Gerber, Ignacio I Wistuba, John Minna, Jeffrey McDonald, Pier Paolo Scaglioni

Association between resting-state functional brain connectivity and gene expression is altered in autism spectrum disorder

Stefano Berto, Alex H Treacher, Emre Caglayan, Danni Luo, Jillian R Haney, Michael J Gandal, Daniel H Geschwind, Albert A Montillo, Genevieve Konopka

Carbon Monoxide Activates PERK-Regulated Autophagy to Induce Immunometabolic Reprogramming and Boost Antitumor T-cell Function

Paramita Chakraborty, Rasesh Y Parikh, Seungho Choi, Danh Tran, Monika Gooz, Zachariah T Hedley, Do-Sung Kim, Dariusz Pytel, Inhong Kang, Satish N Nadig, Gyda C Beeson, Lauren Ball, Meenal Mehrotra, Hongjun Wang, Stefano Berto, Viswanathan Palanisamy, Hong Li, Shilpak Chatterjee, Paulo C Rodriguez, Eduardo N Maldonado, J Alan Diehl, Vamsi K Gangaraju, Shikhar Mehrotra

Decoding Brain Function Through Genetics

Kazuya Toriumi, Guang-Zhong Wang, Stefano Berto, Noriyoshi Usui

NPAS4 supports drug-cue associations and relapse-like behavior through regulation of the cell type-specific activation balance in the nucleus accumbens

Brandon W Hughes, Evgeny Tsvetkov, Benjamin M Siemsen, Kirsten K Snyder, Rose Marie Akiki, Daniel J Wood, Rachel D Penrod, Michael D Scofield, Stefano Berto, Makoto Taniguchi, Christopher W Cowan

2021

Non-coding enhancer RNA regulates NPAS4 in the mPFC to control chronic stress-induced anhedonia-like behavior

Brandon W Hughes, Benjamin M Siemsen, Stefano Berto, Jaswinder Kumar, Rebecca G Cornbrooks, Rose Marie Akiki, Jordan S Carter, Emma C Brase, Nobuya Koike, Michael D Scofield, Christopher W Cowan, Makoto Taniguchi

Early Life Stress Alters Gene Expression and Cytoarchitecture in the Prefrontal Cortex Leading to Social Impairment and Increased Anxiety

Noriyoshi Usui, Yuta Ono, Ryoko Aramaki, Stefano Berto, Genevieve Konopka, Hideo Matsuzaki, Shoichi Shimada

NPAS4 regulates the transcriptional response of the suprachiasmatic nucleus to light and circadian behavior

Pin Xu, Stefano Berto, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Byeongha Jeong, Chryshanthi Joseph, Kimberly H Cox, Michael E Greenberg, Tae-Kyung Kim, Genevieve Konopka, Joseph S Takahashi

Combined glyoxalase 1 dysfunction and vitamin B6 deficiency in a schizophrenia model system causes mitochondrial dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex

Kazuya Toriumi, Stefano Berto, Shin Koike, Noriyoshi Usui, Takashi Dan, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Yasue Horiuchi, Akane Yoshikawa, Mai Asakura, Kenichiro Nagahama, Hsiao-Chun Lin, Yuki Sugaya, Takaki Watanabe, Masanobu Kano, Yuki Ogasawara, Toshio Miyata, Masanari Itokawa, Genevieve Konopka, Makoto Arai

Resolving cellular and molecular diversity along the hippocampal anterior-to-posterior axis in humans

Fatma Ayhan, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Stefano Berto, Karthigayini Sivaprakasam, Connor Douglas, Bradley C Lega, Genevieve Konopka

Association between resting-state functional brain connectivity and gene expression is altered in autism spectrum disorder

Stefano Berto, Alex Treacher, Emre Caglayan, Danni Luo, Jillian R Haney, Michael J Gandal, Daniel H Geschwind, Albert Montillo, Genevieve Konopka

Zbtb16 regulates social cognitive behaviors and neocortical development

Noriyoshi Usui, Stefano Berto, Ami Konishi, Makoto Kondo, Genevieve Konopka, Hideo Matsuzaki, Shoichi Shimada

Evolution of DNA methylation in the human brain

Hyeonsoo Jeong, Isabel Mendizabal, Stefano Berto, Paramita Chatterjee, Thomas Layman, Noriyoshi Usui, Kazuya Toriumi, Connor Douglas, Devika Singh, Iksoo Huh, Todd M. Preuss, Genevieve Konopka & Soojin V. Yi

Gene-expression correlates of the oscillatory signatures supporting human episodic memory encoding

Stefano Berto, Miles R Fontenot, Sarah Seger, Fatma Ayhan, Emre Caglayan, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Connor Douglas, Carol A Tamminga, Bradley C Lega, Genevieve Konopka

Hippocampal subfield transcriptome analysis in schizophrenia psychosis

Jessica Marie Perez, Stefano Berto, Kelly Gleason, Subroto Ghose, Chunfeng Tan, Tae-Kyung Kim, Genevieve Konopka, Carol A Tamminga

2020

Reduction of MEF2C in Microglia Leads to Structural and Transcriptomic Changes in Mouse Models of MEF2C Haploinsufficiency Syndrome

Stefano Berto, Miles Fontenot, Sarah Seger, Fatma Ayhan, Emre Caglayan, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Connor Douglas, Carol A. Tamminga, Bradley C. Lega, Genevieve Konopka.

Genomics at cellular resolution: insights into cognitive disorders and their evolution

Stefano Berto, Yuxiang Liu, Genevieve Konopka

MEF2C Hypofunction in Neuronal and Neuroimmune Populations Produces MEF2C Haploinsufficiency Syndrome–like Behaviors in Mice

Adam J Harrington, Catherine M Bridges, Stefano Berto, Kayla Blankenship, Jennifer Y Cho, Ahlem Assali, Benjamin M Siemsen, Hannah W Moore, Evgeny Tsvetkov, Acadia Thielking, Genevieve Konopka, David B Everman, Michael D Scofield, Steven A Skinner, Christopher W Cowan

Epigenetic inheritance of circadian period in clonal cells

Yan Li, Yongli Shan, Gokhul Krishna Kilaru, Stefano Berto, Guang-Zhong Wang, Kimberly H Cox, Seung-Hee Yoo, Shuzhang Yang, Genevieve Konopka, Joseph S Takahashi

Neuronal and neuroimmune dysfunction underlies behavioral and synaptic phenotypes in a mouse model of MEF2C Haploinsufficiency Syndrome

Catherine Bridges, Adam Harrington, Kayla Blankenship, Ahlem Assali, Hannah Warren Moore, Stefano Berto, Yongjoo Jennifer Cho, Evgeny Tsvetkov, Steven Skinner, Christopher Cowan

Cell-Type Specific Epigenetic Links to Schizophrenia Risk in Control and Patients

Hyeonsoo Jeong, Isabel Mendizabal, Stefano Berto, Paramita Chatterjee, Thomas Layman, Noriyoshi Usui, Kazuya Toriumi, Connor Douglas, Devika Singh, Iksoo Huh, Todd M. Preuss, Genevieve Konopka & Soojin V. Yi

2019

Accelerated evolution of oligodendrocytes in the human brain

Stefano Berto, Isabel Mendizabal, Noriyoshi Usui, Kazuya Toriumi, Paramita Chatterjee, Connor Douglas, Carol A Tamminga, Todd M Preuss, V Yi Soojin, Genevieve Konopka

The Circadian Protein Nocturnin Regulates Metabolic Adaptation in Brown Adipose Tissue

Yasemin Onder, Isara Laothamatas, Stefano Berto, Katharina Sewart, Gokhul Kilaru, Bogdan Bordieanu, Jeremy J Stubblefield, Genevieve Konopka, Prashant Mishra, Carla B Green

Cell type-specific epigenetic links to schizophrenia risk in the brain

Isabel Mendizabal, Stefano Berto, Noriyoshi Usui, Kazuya Toriumi, Paramita Chatterjee, Connor Douglas, Iksoo Huh, Hyeonsoo Jeong, Thomas Layman, Carol Tamminga, Todd M Preuss, Genevieve Konopka, V Yi Soojin

Chromatin Decondensation by FOXP2 Promotes Human Neuron Maturation and Expression of Neurodevelopmental Disease Genes

Stephanie L Hickey, Stefano Berto, Genevieve Konopka

Restricted Hematopoietic Progenitors and Erythropoiesis Require SCF from Leptin Receptor+ Niche Cells in the Bone Marrow

Stefano Comazzetto, Malea M Murphy, Stefano Berto, Elise Jeffery, Zhiyu Zhao, Sean J Morrison

2018

Species-Specific Changes in a Primate Transcription Factor Network Provide Insights into the Molecular Evolution of the Primate Prefrontal Cortex 

Stefano Berto, Katja Nowick

Human Genomic Signatures of Brain Oscillations During Memory Encoding

Stefano Berto, Guang-Zhong Wang, James Germi, Bradley C Lega, Genevieve Konopka

2017

Novel transcriptional networks regulated by CLOCK in human neurons

Miles R Fontenot, Stefano Berto, Yuxiang Liu, Gordon Werthmann, Connor Douglas, Noriyoshi Usui, Kelly Gleason, Carol A Tamminga, Joseph S Takahashi, Genevieve Konopka

2016

ELAVL2-regulated transcriptional and splicing networks in human neurons link neurodevelopment and autism

Stefano Berto, Noriyoshi Usui, Genevieve Konopka, Brent L Fogel

A Consensus Network of Gene Regulatory Factors in the Human Frontal Lobe

Stefano Berto, Alvaro Perdomo-Sabogal, Daniel Gerighausen, Jing Qin, Katja Nowick

MEF2C regulates cortical inhibitory and excitatory synapses and behaviors relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders. eLife. 5

AJ Harrington, A Raissi, K Rajkovich, S Berto, J Kumar, G Molinaro, J Raduazzo, Y Guo, K Loerwald, G Konopka, KM Huber, CW Cowan

2015

Correspondence between Resting-State Activity and Brain Gene Expression

Guang-Zhong Wang, T Grant Belgard, Deng Mao, Leslie Chen, Stefano Berto, Todd M Preuss, Hanzhang Lu, Daniel H Geschwind, Genevieve Konopka

FoxP1 orchestration of ASD-relevant signaling pathways in the striatum

Daniel J Araujo, Ashley G Anderson, Stefano Berto, Wesley Runnels, Matthew Harper, Simon Ammanuel, Michael A Rieger, Hung-Chung Huang, Kacey Rajkovich, Kristofer W Loerwald, Joseph D Dekker, Haley O Tucker, Joseph D Dougherty, Jay R Gibson, Genevieve Konopka

2014

Molecular and ecological signs of mitochondrial adaptation: consequences for introgression?

Z Boratyński, J Melo-Ferreira, PC Alves, S Berto, E Koskela, OT Pentikäinen, P Tarroso, M Ylilauri, T Mappes

2011

Introgression of mitochondrial DNA among Myodesvoles: consequences for energetics?

Zbyszek Boratyński, Paulo Célio Alves, Stefano Berto, Esa Koskela, Tapio Mappes, José Melo-Ferreira