Download Giorgio Prantera

Giorgio Prantera
Position: since 1992, Professor of Genetics at the Faculty of Sciences of the
University of Tuscia.
Scientific interest: eukaryotic chromosome biology, and, in particular, the
relationships between structural and functional genome organizations.
Research topics and publications:
 Mechanisms of chromosome banding and their implications for chromosome
structure. The results have been published on: Science, Chromosoma, Cytogenetic and
Cell Genetics, Experimental Cell Research, Heredity.
 Correlation between chromatin conformation, DNA methylation and gene
expression in human cells. The results have been published on: Chromosoma,
Cytogenetic and Cell Genetics.
 Genomic organization of CpG islands in human genome. The results have been
published on: Chromosoma.
 Genomic imprinting in mammals. The results have been published on:
Chromosome Research.
 Mealybug chromosome system as a model system to study genomic imprinting
and facultative heterochromatin formation. The results have been published on:
Caryologia, Genetics, Development, Genetica, Chromosoma.
List of selected publications
G. Prantera, S. Bonaccorsi & S. Pimpinelli (1979): Simultaneous production of Q
and R bands after staining with Chromomycin A3 or Olivomycin.
Science 204: 79-80
A. Rocchi, G. Prantera, V. Lanza & M. Di Castro (1984): Incipient sex chromosome
differentiation in an isopod crustacean species, Asellus aquaticus.
Chromosoma 89: 193-196
M. Ferraro & G. Prantera (1988): Human NORs show correlation between
transcriptional activity, DNase I sensitivity and hypomethylation.
Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 47: 58-61.
G. Prantera & M. Ferraro (1990): Analysis of methylation and distribution of CpG
sequences on human active and inactive X chromosomes by in situ nick-translation.
Chromosoma 99: 18-23.
J. Del Mazo, G. Prantera, M. Torres, M. Ferraro (1994): DNA methylation changes
during mouse spermatogenesis.
Chromosome Research 2: 147-152.
S. Bongiorni, O. Cintio and G. Prantera (1999): The relationship between DNA
methylation and chromosome imprinting in the Coccid Planococcus citri.
Genetics 151:1471-1478.
S. Bongiorni, M. Mazzuoli, S. Masci and G. Prantera (2001): Facultative
heterochromatization in parahaploid male mealybugs: involvement of a
heterochromatin-associated protein.
Development 128: 3809-3817.
I.G. Cowell, R. Aucott, S. K. Mahadevaiah, P. S. Burgoyne, N. Huskisson, S.
Bongiorni, G. Prantera, L. Fanti, S. Pimpinelli, R. Wu, D. M. Gilbert, W. Shi, R.
Fundele, H. Morrison, P. Jeppesen and P. B. Singh (2002): Heterochromatin, HP1 and
methylation at lysine 9 of histone H3 in animals.
Chromosoma 111: 22-36.
Bongiorni, S. and G. Prantera (2002): Imprinted facultative heterochromatization in
mealybugs.
Genetica, in press.