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NAME: Rossella Maione

POSITIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 1985
Degree cum laude in Biological Sciences at the University of Naples with the experimental thesis Selection of Polyoma virus mutants specific for different mouse neuroblastoma differentiative stages (supervisor Prof. Paolo Amati), winner of the 1985 Italian Society of Biophysics and Molecular Biology Best Thesis Award.

November 1985 - October 1989
PhD course Human Biology: Cellular and Molecular Bases at the Department of Human Biopathology, University of Rome La Sapienza , (supervisor Prof. Paolo Amati)

July 1990
PhD degree final exam presenting the thesis Polyoma virus interaction with mouse myogenesis .

June - July 1987
Short-term EMBO fellow at the laboratory of Prof. Margaret Buckingham, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

January 1990 - October 1991
Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) fellow

November 1991 - October 1993
Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST) post-doctoral fellow .

March 1994 September 1998
Foundation Institut Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti research fellow

October 1998 February 2002
University Researcher in Applied Biology - University of Rome La Sapienza .

March 2002 present
Associate professor in Applied Biology - University of Rome La Sapienza

TEACHING:

- Biology and Genetics in the Medical Schools of the II Faculty of Medicine and of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rome La Sapienza
- Applied Biology in the Schools of Biomedical laboratory Methods and Nursing of the II Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome La Sapienza .

RESEARCH INTERESTS

In the first years of her scientific activity, R. M. was involved in the molecular biology of DNA tumor viruses, focusing her research on two main aspects of the interplay between Polyomavirus and cell differentiation. The first one is the regulation of viral gene expression during host cell differentiation, as a mean to probe the cellular modifications responsible for the establishment and the maintenance of the differentiated state. Through this research she gained expertise with several differentiating cell systems, with particular regard to neuronal and muscle differentiation, and also learned about the transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The second aspect concerns the interference of viral and cellular oncogenes with cell proliferation and differentiation. This subject allowed her to gain experience in the field of oncogenes, oncosuppressors, cell cycle, cell immortalisation and transformation.
Subsequently, she was mainly involved in the subject of the complex interplay between terminal differentiation and growth arrest pathways, in particular on the role and the regulation of the cdk inhibitors p21 and p57 during muscle differentiation and on the apoptotic mechanisms resulting from conflicting signals to cell cycle progression and cell cycle withdrawal.
Currently, she is focusing her attention on the role of epigenetic factors, such as DNA methylation, Poly(ADP-ribosylation and chromatin rearrangements, in the transcriptional regulation of genes involved in muscle differentiation and in cell cycle re-entry of quiescent cells.

RESEARCH PROGRAMS

She was Principal Investigator in research programs funded by:
- AIRC 1998: Control of cell fate in oncogene altered myogenesis
- CNR Agenzia 2000 CNRC00A4F4-Unit 2: Interplay between proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis in muscle cells
- MIUR PRIN 2002 n. 2002055585- Unit 2: Activation of alternative growth arrest pathways during differentiation
- Ateneo La Sapienza 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2018: C26A048174, C26A057704, C26A06T4TP, C26A07PRML, C26A082MNW, RP116154C9BD387B,RM11715C642DFF3B, RP1181643693916D.
- Istituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti 2009-2011: Interplay between myogenic factors and cell cycle control.
- Istituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti 2012-2015: Transcriptional regulation through long-range chromatin interactions in muscle cells: the CDKN1C-KCNQ1 locus.

REVIEW ACTIVITIES

She has been referee for international journals and evaluator of projects for MIUR/PRIN, MIUR/FIRB and for French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM-Téléthon).

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Matteini F, Andresini O, Petrai S, Battistelli C, Rossi MN, Maione R.
Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 (PARP1) restrains MyoD-dependent gene expression during muscle differentiation.
Sci Rep. 2020 Sep 15;10(1):15086.

Rossi MN, Maione R.
Identification of Chromatin Binding Sites for Long Noncoding RNAs by Chromatin Oligo-Affinity Precipitation (ChOP).
Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2161:17-28.

Andresini O, Rossi MN, Matteini F, Petrai S, Santini T, Maione R.
The long non-coding RNA Kcnq1ot1 controls maternal p57 expression in muscle cells by promoting H3K27me3 accumulation to an intragenic MyoD-binding region.
Epigenetics Chromatin. 2019;12(1):8.

Rossi MN, Andresini O, Matteini F, Maione R
Transcriptional regulation of p57kip2 expression during development, differentiation and disease.
Frontiers in Bioscience, 2018, Vol. 23, p. 83-108.

Andresini O, Ciotti A, Rossi MN, Battistelli C, Carbone M, Maione R. A cross-talk between DNA methylation and H3 lysine 9 dimethylation at the KvDMR1 region controls the induction of Cdkn1c in muscle cells. Epigenetics. 2016 Nov;11(11):791-803.

Battistelli C, Busanello A, Maione R.
Functional interplay between MyoD and CTCF in regulating long-range chromatin interactions during differentiation.
J Cell Sci. 2014 Sep 1;127(Pt 17):3757-67.

Mostocotto C, Carbone M, Battistelli C, Ciotti A, Amati P, Maione R.
Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is required to modulate chromatin changes at c-MYC
promoter during emergence from quiescence.
PLoS One. 2014 Jul 21;9(7)

Busanello A, Battistelli C, Carbone M, Mostocotto C, Maione R.
MyoD regulates p57kip2 expression by interacting with a distant cis-element and modifying a
higher order chromatin structure.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Sep 1;40(17):8266-75.

Rossi MN, Carbone M, Mostocotto C, Mancone C, Tripodi M, Maione R, Amati P.
Mitochondrial localization of PARP-1 requires interaction with mitofilin and is
involved in the maintenance of mitochondrial DNA integrity.
J Biol Chem. 2009; 284(46):31616-24.

Carbone M, Rossi MN, Cavaldesi M, Notari A, Amati P, Maione R.
Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is implicated in the G0-G1 transition of resting cells.
Oncogene. 2008; 27(47):6083-92.

Figliola R, Busanello A, Vaccarello G, Maione R.
Regulation of p57(KIP2) during muscle differentiation: role of Egr1, Sp1 and DNA hypomethylation.
J Mol Biol. 2008;380(2):265-77.

Carbone M, Reale A, Di Sauro A, Sthandier O, Garcia MI, Maione R, Caiafa P, Amati P.
PARP-1 interaction with VP1 capsid protein regulates polyomavirus early gene expression.
J Mol Biol. 2006 Nov 3;363(4):773-85.

Vaccarello G, Figliola R, Cramerotti S, Novelli F, Maione R.
p57Kip2 is induced by MyoD through a p73-dependent pathway.
J Mol Biol. 2006; 356(3):578-88.

Figliola R, Maione R.
MyoD induces the expression of p57Kip2 in cells lacking p21Cip1/Waf1: overlapping and distinct functions of the two cdk inhibitors.
J Cell Physiol. 2004; 200(3):468-75.

Peschiaroli A, Figliola R, Coltella L, Strom A, Valentini A, D'Agnano I, Maione R.
MyoD induces apoptosis in the absence of RB function through a p21(WAF1)-dependent re-localization of cyclin/cdk complexes to the nucleus.
Oncogene. 2002; 21(53):8114-27.

Gottifredi V, Peschiaroli A, Fimia GM, Maione R.
p53-independent apoptosis induced by muscle differentiation stimuli in polyomavirus large T-expressing myoblasts.
J Cell Sci. 1999 Jul;112 ( Pt 14):2397-407.

Gottifredi V, Pelicci G, Munarriz E, Maione R, Pelicci PG, Amati P.
Polyomavirus large T antigen induces alterations in cytoplasmic signalling pathways involving Shc activation.
J Virol. 1999;73(2):1427-37.

Fimia GM, Gottifredi V, Bellei B, Ricciardi MR, Tafuri A, Amati P, Maione R.
The activity of differentiation factors induces apoptosis in polyomavirus large
T-expressing myoblasts.
Mol Biol Cell. 1998 Jun;9(6):1449-63.

Corbi N, Perez M, Maione R, Passananti C. Synthesis of a new zinc finger peptide; comparison of its 'code' deduced and 'CASTing' derived binding sites.
FEBS Lett. 1997 Nov 3;417(1):71-4.

Anastasi S, Giordano S, Sthandier O, Gambarotta G, Maione R, Comoglio P, Amati P.
A natural hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor autocrine loop in myoblast cells and the effect of the constitutive Met kinase activation on myogenic differentiation.
J Cell Biol. 1997;137(5):1057-68.

Maione R, Amati P.
Interdependence between muscle differentiation and cell-cycle control.
Biochim Biophys Acta. Reviews on Cancer 1997;1332(1):M19-30.

Fimia GM, Gottifredi V, Passananti C, Maione R.
Double-stranded internucleosomal cleavage of apoptotic DNA is dependent on the degree of differentiation in muscle cells.
J Biol Chem. 1996;271(26):15575-9.

Maione R, Fimia GM, Holman P, Schaffhausen B, Amati P.
Retinoblastoma antioncogene is involved in the inhibition of myogenesis by polyomavirus large T antigen.
Cell Growth Differ. 1994;5(2):231-7.

Ricci L, Maione R, Passananti C, Felsani A, Amati P.
Mutations in the VP1 coding region of polyomavirus determine differentiating stage specificity.
J Virol. 1992;66(12):7153-8.

Maione R, Fimia GM, Amati P.
Inhibition of in vitro muscle differentiation by the immortalizing oncogene py LT-ag.
Symp Soc Exp Biol. 1992;46:53-71

Maione R, Fimia GM, Amati P.
Inhibition of in vitro myogenic differentiation by a polyomavirus early function.
Oncogene. 1992 Jan;7(1):85-93.

Maione R, Felsani A, Pozzi L, Caruso M, Amati P.
Polyomavirus genome and polyomavirus enhancer-driven gene expression during myogenesis.
J Virol. 1989;63(11):4890-7.

Felsani A, Maione R, Ricci L, Amati P.
Coordinate expression of myogenic functions and polyoma virus replication.
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 1985;50:753-7.

Maione R, Passananti C, De Simone V, Delli-Bovi P, Augusti-Tocco G, Amati P.
Selection of mouse neuroblastoma cell-specific polyoma virus mutants with stage
differentiative advantages of replication.
EMBO J. 1985;4(12):3215-21