@article{PlauthGeikowskiCichonetal.2016,
  author    = {Plauth, Annabell and Geikowski, Anne and Cichon, Susanne and Wowro, Sylvia J. and Liedgens, Linda and Rousseau, Morten and Weidner, Christopher and Fuhr, Luise and Kliem, Magdalena and Jenkins, Gail and Lotito, Silvina and Wainwright, Linda J. and Sauer, Sascha},
  title     = {Hormetic shifting of redox environment by pro-oxidative resveratrol protects cells against stress},
  series = {Free Radical Biology and Medicine},
  volume    = {99},
  journal   = {Free Radical Biology and Medicine},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.08.006},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-187186},
  pages     = {608-622},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Resveratrol has gained tremendous interest owing to multiple reported health-beneficial effects. However, the underlying key mechanism of action of this natural product remained largely controversial. Here, we demonstrate that under physiologically relevant conditions major biological effects of resveratrol can be attributed to its generation of oxidation products such as reactive oxygen species (ROS). At low nontoxic concentrations (in general < 50 mu M), treatment with resveratrol increased viability in a set of representative cell models, whereas application of quenchers of ROS completely truncated these beneficial effects. Notably, resveratrol treatment led to mild, Nrf2-specific gene expression reprogramming. For example, in primary epidermal keratinocytes derived from human skin this coordinated process resulted in a 1.3-fold increase of endogenously generated glutathione (GSH) and subsequently in a quantitative reduction of the cellular redox environment by 2.61 mV mmol GSH per g protein. After induction of oxidative stress by using 0.78\% (v/v) ethanol, endogenous generation of ROS was consequently reduced by 24\% in resveratrol pre-treated cells. In contrast to the common perception that resveratrol acts mainly as a chemical antioxidant or as a target protein-specific ligand, we propose that the cellular response to resveratrol treatment is essentially based on oxidative triggering. In physiological microenvironments this molecular training can lead to hormetic shifting of cellular defense towards a more reductive state to improve physiological resilience to oxidative stress.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{TeloracPrykhozhijSchoeneetal.2016,
  author    = {Telorac, Jonas and Prykhozhij, Sergey V. and Sch{\"o}ne, Stefanie and Meierhofer, David and Sauer, Sascha and Thomas-Chollier, Morgane and Meijsing, Sebastiaan H.},
  title     = {Identification and characterization of DNA sequences that prevent glucocorticoid receptor binding to nearby response elements},
  series = {Nucleic Acids Research},
  volume    = {44},
  journal   = {Nucleic Acids Research},
  number    = {13},
  doi       = {10.1093/nar/gkw203},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-166330},
  pages     = {6142-6156},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Out of the myriad of potential DNA binding sites of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) found in the human genome, only a cell-type specific minority is actually bound, indicating that the presence of a recognition sequence alone is insufficient to specify where GR binds. Cooperative interactions with other transcription factors (TFs) are known to contribute to binding specificity. Here, we reasoned that sequence signals preventing GR recruitment to certain loci provide an alternative means to confer specificity. Motif analyses uncovered candidate Negative Regulatory Sequences (NRSs) that interfere with genomic GR binding. Subsequent functional analyses demonstrated that NRSs indeed prevent GR binding to nearby response elements. We show that NRS activity is conserved across species, found in most tissues and that they also interfere with the genomic binding of other TFs. Interestingly, the effects of NRSs appear not to be a simple consequence of changes in chromatin accessibility. Instead, we find that NRSs interact with proteins found at sub-nuclear structures called paraspeckles and that these proteins might mediate the repressive effects of NRSs. Together, our studies suggest that the joint influence of positive and negative sequence signals partition the genome into regions where GR can bind and those where it cannot.},
  language  = {en}
}