Publications and Reviews by Prof. H.-J. Thiesen

 

Original publications

 

1. Bray P¹, Thiesen HJ² (1990) IF: Journal did not survive, Times Cited: 2

Putting the finger on DNA. Zinc Finger Gene Meeting sponsored by the Imperical Cancer Research Fund, London, UK, February 15-16, 1990.

New Biol, 2 (4): 325-7

 

1 Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,

2 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

2. Thiesen HJ¹ (1990) IF: Journal did not survive, Times Cited: 76

Multiple genes encoding zinc finger domains are expressed in human T cells.

New Biol, 2 (4): 363-74

 

1Basel Insitute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

3. Rousseau-Merck MF¹, Huebner K², Berger R³, Thiesen HJ⁴ (1991) IF: 3.488, Times Cited: 19

Chromosomal localization of two human zinc finger protein genes, ZNF 24 (KOX 17) and ZNF 29 (KOX 26), o 18q12 and 17p13-p12, respectively.

Genomics, 9 (1): 154-61

 

1INSERM U. 301, CNRS, Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris,France

2 Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 1INSERM U. 301, CNRS, Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris,France

4 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

4. Thiesen HJ¹, Schröder B² (1991) IF: 2.836, Times Crited: 9

Amino acid substitutions in the SP 1 zinc finger domain alter the DNA binding affinity to cognate SP 1 target site.

Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 175 (1): 333-8

 

1 - 2 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

5. Huebner K¹, Druck T², Croce CM³, Thiesen HJ⁴ (1991) IF: 11.602, Times Cited: 103

Twenty-seven novoverlapping zinc finger cDNAs from human T cells map to nine different chromosomes with apparent clustering.

Am J Hum Genet, 48 (4): 726-40

 

1 - 3 Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Philadelphia

4 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

6. Seite P¹, Huebner K², Rousseau-Merck MF³, Berger R⁴, Thiesen HJ⁵ (1991)

IF: 4.022, Times Cited: 17

Two human genes encoding zinc finger proteins, ZNF 12 (KOX 3) and ZNF 26 (KOX 20), map to chromosome 7p22-p21 and 12q24.33, respectively.

Hum Genet, 86 (6): 585-90

 

1/3/4 INSERM U, 301Institut de Genetique Moleculaire, Paris, France

2 Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Philadelphia, USA

5 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

7. Thiesen HJ¹, Bach C² (1991) IF: 2.836, Crimes Cited: 57

Transition metals modulate DNA-protein interactions of SP 1 zinc finger domains with its cognate target site.

Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 176(2): 551-7

 

1 – 2 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

8. Thiesen HJ¹, Bach C² (1991) IF: 3.609, Times Crited: 12

Determination of DNA binding specificities of mutated zinc finger domains.

FEBS Lett, 283 (1): 23-6

 

1 – 2 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

9. Thiesen HJ¹, Bellefroid E², Revelant O³, Martial JA⁴ (1991) IF: 6.575, Times Cited: 19

Conserved KRAB protein domain identified upstream from the zinc finger region of Kox 8.

Nucleic Acids Res, 19 (14): 3996

 

1 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

2 – 4 Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire et de Genie Genetique, Universite de Liege, Belgium

 

10. Bray P¹, Lichter P², Thiesen HJ³, Ward DC⁴, Dawid IB⁵ (1991) IF: 10.272, Times Cited: 51

Characterization and mapping of human genes encoding zinc finger proteins.

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 88 (21): 9563-7

 

1/5 Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Bethesda

2 Department of Genetics, New Haven; DKFZ Heidelberg

3 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

4 Department of Genetics, New Haven

 

11. Rousseau-Merck MF¹, Tunnacliffe A², Berger A³, Ponder BA⁴, Thiesen HJ⁵ (1992) IF: 3.488, Times Cited: 35

A cluster of expressed zinc finger protein genes in the pericentromeric region of human chromosome 10.

Genomics, 13 (3): 845-8

 

1/3 INSERM U. 301 and SDI 15954 I CNRS, Hopiatl Saint-Louis, Paris, France

2/4 CRC Human Cancer Genetics Research Group, Cambridge, UK

5 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

12. Tunnacliffe A¹, Liu L², Moore JK³, Leversha MA⁴, Jackson MS⁵, Papi L⁶, Ferguson-Smith MA⁷, Thiesen HJ⁸, Ponder BA⁹ (1993) IF: 6.575, Times Cited: 37

Duplicated KOX zinc finger clusters flank the centromere of human chromosome 10: evidence for a pericentric inversion during primate evolution.

Nucleic Acids Res, 21 (6): 1409-17

 

1/3/5/9 CRC Human Cancer Genetics Research Group, Cambridge, UK

2 Department of Neurobiology Cambridge, UK

4/7 Human Molecular Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

6 Department of Clinical Physiopathology, Firenze, Italy

8 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

13. Cannizzaro LA¹, Aronson MM², Thiesen HJ³ (1993) IF: 4.022, Times Cited: 16

Human zinc finger gene ZNF 23 (Kox 16) maps to a zinc finger gene cluster on chromosome 16q22, and ZNF 32 (Kox 30) to chromosome region 10q23-q24.

Hum Genet, 91 (4): 383-5

 

1 – 2 Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Philadelphia, USA

3 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

14. Thiesen HJ¹, Meyer W² (1993) IF: 1.892, Times Cited: 7

Krab domains analysed in humanCys/His-type zinc-finger proteinsKOX 1, KOX 8, and KOX 19.

Ann N Y Acad Si, 684:243-5

 

1 – 2 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

15. La Pillo B¹, Ludecke HJ², Thiesen HJ³, Horsthemke B⁴ (1993) IF: 8.597, Times Cited:  1

A BanII RFLP in the ZNF 34 zinc finger gene on chromosome 8.

Hum Mol Genet, 2 (8), 1331

 

1 - 4 Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany

 

16. Rousseau-Merck MF¹, Hillion J², Jonveaux P³, Couillin P⁴, Seite P⁵, Thiesen HJ⁶, Berger R⁷ (1993) IF: 4.022, Times Cited:21

Chromosomal localization of 9 KOX zinc finger genes: physical linkages suggest clustering of KOX genes on chromosomes 12, 16 and 19.

Hum Genet, 92 (6): 583-7

 

1 – 3/5/7 INSERM U. 310, Institut de Genetique Moleculaire, Paris, France

4 INSERM U.178, Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif Cedex, France

6 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

17. Knight JC¹, Grimaldi G², Thiesen HJ³, Bech-Hansen NT⁴, Fletcher CD⁵, Coleman MP⁶ (1994) IF: 3.488,Times Cited: 25

Clustered organization of Kruppel zinc-finger genes at Xp11.23, flanking a translocation breakpoint at OATL1: a physical map with locus assignments for ZNF 21, ZKF 41, ZNF 81, and ELK1.

Genomics, 21 (1): 180-7

 

1/5 Department of Histopathology, UMDS, London, UK

2 International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy

3 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

4 Department of Paediatrics, Alberta Childrens Hospital, Alberta, Canada

6 Molecular Genetics Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington, Oxford, UK

 

18. Margolin JF¹, Friedman JR², Meyer WK³, Vissing H⁴, Thiesen HJ⁵, Rauscher FJ 3^rd6 (1994) IF: 10.272, Times Cited: 304

Kruppel-associated boxes are potent transcriptional repression domains.

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 91 (10): 4509-13

 

1 – 2/6 Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

3/5 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

4 Novodisk, Denmark

 

19. Rousseau-Merck MF¹, Duro D², Berger R³, Thiesen HJ⁴ (1995) IF:0.617, Times Cited:3

Chromosomal localization of two KOX zinc finger genes on chromosome bands 7q21-q22.

Ann Genet, 38 (2): 81-4

 

1- 3 INSERM U. 310, Institut de Genetique Moleculaire, Paris, France

4 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

20. Vissing H¹, Meyer WK², Aagaard L³, TommerupN⁴, Thiesen HJ⁵ (1995) IF: 3.609, Times Cited: 79

Repression of transcriptional activity by heterologous KRAB domains present in zinc finger proteins.

FEBS Lett, 369 (2-3): 153-7

 

1 – 4 Novodisk, Denmark

5 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

21. Lange R¹, Christoph A²,Thiesen HJ³, Vopper G⁴, Johnson KR⁵, Lemaire L⁶, Plomann M⁷, Cremer H⁸, Barthels D⁹, Heinlein UA¹⁰ (1995) IF: 2.006, Times Cited: 29

Developmentally regulated mouse gene NK 10 encodes a zinc finger repressor protein with differential DNA-binding domains.

DNA Cell Biol, 14 (11): 971-81

 

1 – 2/7 – 9 Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Germany

3 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

4/10 Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Germany

5 The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

6 Institut für Genetik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

22. Pott U¹, Thiesen HJ², Colello RJ³, Schwab ME⁴ (1995) IF:4.825, Times Cited: 16

A new Cys2/His2 zinc finger gene rKr2, is expressed in differentiated rat oligodendrocytes and encodes a protein with a functional repressor domain.

J Neurochem, 65(5): 1955-66

 

1/3 - 4 Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich, Switzerland

2 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

23. Thiesen HJ¹(1996) IF:2.667, Times Cited: 7

From repression domains to designer zinc finger proteins: a novel strategy of intracellular immunization against HIV.

Gene Expr, 5 (4-5): 229-43

 

1 Institut für Immunologie, Rostock, Germany

 

24. Moosmann P¹, Georgiev O², Thiesen HJ³, Hagmann M⁴, Schaffner W⁵ (1997)

 IF: 3.366, Times Cited: 40

Silencing of RNA polymerases II and III-dependent transcription by the KRAB protein domain of KOX 1, a Kruppel-type zinc finger factor.

Biol Chem, 378 (7): 669-77

 

1 – 2/4 – 5 Institut für Molekularbiologie der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

3 Institut für Immunologie, Rostock, Germany

 

 

25. Lim FL¹, Soulez M², Koczan D³,Thiesen HJ⁴, Knight JC⁵ (1998) IF:6.495, Times cited: 53

A KRAB-related domain an a novel transcription repression domain in proteins encoded by SSX genes that are disrupted in human sarcomas.

Oncogene, 17 (15): 2013-8

 

1- 2 Department of Cancer Medicine, Imperial College of Science, London, UK

3 – 4 Institut für Immunologie, Rostock, Germany

5 Department of Histopathology, UMDS, London, UK

 

26. Herchenröder O¹, Hahne JC², Meyer WK³, Thiesen HJ⁴ Schneider J⁵ (1999) IF: 2.557, Times Cited: 8

Repression of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 promoter by the human KRAB domain results in inhibition of virus production.

Biochim Biophys Acta, 1445 (2): 216-23

 

1/5Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

2 – 3 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

4 Institut für Immunologie, Rostock, Germany

 

27. Lorenz P¹, Koczan D², Thiesen HJ³ (2001) IF: 3.366, Times Cited: 11

Transcriptional repression mediated by the KRAB domain of the human C2H2 zinc finger protein Kox 1/ZNF 10 does not require histone deacetylation.

Biol Chem, 382 (4): 637-44

 

1 – 3 Institut für Immunologie, Rostock, Germany

 

28. Rousseau-Merck MF¹, Koczan D², Legrand I³, Möller S⁴, Autran S⁵,Thiesen HJ⁶ (2002) IF: 0.497, Times Cited: 6

The KOX zinc finger genes: genome wide mapping of 368 ZNF PAC clones with chromosomal loci are confirmed by human sequences annotated in EnsEMBL.

Cytogenet Genome Res, 98 (2 – 3): 147-53

 

1/3 INSERM U 509, Institut Curie, Paris,France

2/4/6 Institut für Immunologie, Rostock, Germany

 

29. Guy J¹, Hearn T², Crosier M³, Mudge J⁴, Viggiano L⁵, Koczan D⁶, Thiesen HJ⁷, Bailey JA⁸, Horvath JE⁹, Eichler EE¹⁰, Earthrowl ME¹¹, Deloukas P¹², French L¹³, Rogers J¹⁴, Bentley D¹⁵, Jackson MS¹⁶ (2003) IF: 9.635, Times Cited: 31

Genomic sequence and transcriptional profile of the boundary between pericentromeric satellites and genes on human chromosome arm 10p.

Genome Res, 13 (2): 159-72

 

1 – 4/16 The Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

5 DAPEG, Sezione di Genetica,Bari Italy

6 – 7 Institut für Immunologie, Rostock, Germany

8 – 10 Department of Genetics and Center for Human Genetics, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

11 – 15 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

 

Reviews

 

R1.  Thiesen HJ¹, Bach C²  (1993) IF: 1.892, Times Cited: 10

DNA recognition of C2H2 zinc finger proteins. Evidence for a zinc-finger-specific DNA recognition code.

Ann N Y Acad Sci, 684:246-9

 

1 – 2 Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland

 

R2. Koczan D, Thiesen HJ.

Survey of microarray technologies suitable to elucidate transcriptional networks as exemplified by studying KRAB zinc finger gene families.

Proteomics. 2006 Sep;6(17):4704-15. Review, IF: 6.088

PMID: 16933337 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]