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Yago Arribas
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Immunologist. Mass spectrometry. Decoding non-coding but coding genome. Català a París.
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Dec 12
Not easy to describe the emotions of seeing our work published in @cellpress.bsky.social ! We explored how novel isoforms emerge during evolution through the exonization of Transposable Elements. Exonized TEs modify the functions and structures of host proteins.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Transposable element exonization generates a reservoir of evolving and functional protein isoforms
Transposable element exonization by unannotated splicing events produces stable protein isoforms with acquired functions that are subject to evolutionary selection.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · Sep 11
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Endogenous retroelements promote tolerance to dietary antigens @belkaidlab.bsky.social
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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · Sep 1
🚨🚨🚨 New review article on #microexons from the lab! A comprehensive recap of the current state of the field by @tahneema.bsky.social.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Network plot with microexon-associated phenotypes (nodes shown in dark gray). Microexon nodes are colored by exon length, and node size represents the level of conservation to the LCA as given in VastDB (109): human specific, Euarchontoglires (conserved from human to mouse and/or rat), Eutheria (to cow), Amniota (to chicken), Euteleostomi (to zebrafish), and Bilateria (to fruit fly).
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Jack Tierney @jackatierney.bsky.social · Sep 1
Many transcriptome regions are translated but not known to encode proteins. They remain poorly annotated and thus under studied, partly due to the lack of terminology for these features.

In @natmethods.nature.com we propose using "Translon" for any region decoded by the ribosome
Snapshot of the Correspondence titled 'Translon: a single term for translated regions'
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Sean Bresnahan @seantbres.bsky.social · Jul 2
🧬🚨PREPRINT🚨- The first placental isoform reference from long-read seq & supporting data! We demonstrate how tissue-specific assembly improves transcript quantification with short-read data from multi-ancestry birth studies & reveals placenta-mediated effects of gestational diabetes on birth weight🫄
Long-read transcriptome assembly reveals vast isoform diversity in the placenta associated with metabolic and endocrine function
The placenta plays a critical role in fetal development and mediates maternal metabolic effects on offspring health outcomes. Despite its importance, the placenta remains understudied in large-scale g...
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George Burslem @gburslem.bsky.social · May 1
Excited to see this out in @science.org today!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · Mar 18
"The main fates after gene duplication are gene loss, redundancy, subfunctionalization and neofunctionalization".

In our new review, @fedemantica.bsky.social and I argue we are missing the most prevalent one: specialization. And the same applies to alternative splicing! 1/7

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Christina Metoikidou @christinamt.bsky.social · Mar 10
Excited to share my first post & see the second part of my PhD work published! Our study on mTNBC highlights that baseline clonal expansion of dysfunctional CD8 cells is linked to better response to chemoimmunotherapy.
More here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CD8 #TCellExhaustion #TNBC
Continuous replenishment of the dysfunctional CD8 T cell axis is associated with response to chemoimmunotherapy in advanced breast cancer
Chemotherapy combined with immune checkpoint blockade has shown clinical activity in breast cancer. Response, however, occurs in only a low proportion…
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Lluis Montoliu @lluismontoliu.bsky.social · Mar 10
Nuevo número de la Revista de la @sebbm.bsky.social dedicado al “Genoma no codificante” coordinado por Crisanto Gutiérrez @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social entrevista a Jordi Camí, @prbb.org y presidente del #CEEI con artículos+contenido interesante
Editora: @inmayruela.bsky.social
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yEFIS @yefis-immunology.bsky.social · Mar 8
🌸Happy Women's Day! 💪👩‍🔬

As we wrap up our campaign, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women in science and beyond. 🌟

A big shoutout to the amazing women of the #yefis Task Force! ✨

Let’s keep inspiring and empowering each other. 💜

#WomensDay #WomenInScience #WomenInStem
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Mar 7
7/ ii) Binding affinity predictions don’t always correlate with actual presentation at the cell surface. More immunopeptidomics is essential—not just to rely on binding predictions but to better assess HLA presentation.
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Mar 7
6/ Two additional (and not-so-original) thoughts:
i) Mutations generate the best neoantigens, but each patient may require more antigens for an effective vaccine. --> additional sources (cryptic proteome or alternative splicing) may help?
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Mar 7
5/ Both findings suggest that, beyond lower binding affinity, non-responder peptides are also less likely to be presented.
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Mar 7
4/ Also, Müller et al.(PMID:29104575) proposed that if the WT peptide is presented, the mutated version is more likely to be presented. We searched for WT counterpart peptides in an in-house dataset of 1000s of immunopept. samples and found a higher proportion of presented peptides in responders.
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Mar 7
3/ However, HLA-I binding affinity doesn’t guarantee real peptide presentation. I explored PDAC neoantigen presentation using two approaches.
First, Cysteines are generally depleted in the immunopeptidome. Notably, non-responder peptides had a 3-fold increase in cysteine-containing peptides.
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Mar 7
2/ Responder peptides had a higher HLA-I affinity than those in non-responders (as expected). ~50% of the non-immunogenic peptides weren’t binders (by NetMHC). This suggests that one distinction between responders and non-responders lies in the quality of the neoantigens included in the vaccine.
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Mar 7
1/ We saw an update on the PDAC neoantigen vaccine (Sethna et al., 2025). A remarkable effort in showing long-lived T cell protection in PDAC + an exhaustive look at the T cells. One question intrigued me: Were the selected neoantigens different between the 8 responder and 8 non-responder patients?
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Feb 20
Merck & Co. digs into 'junk DNA' for cancer clues in new Epitopea deal

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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Feb 9
I am very happy to share that last week, I had the opportunity to present my research at the Winter Meeting of the Catalan Society of Immunology. But I feel even more honored to have presented in a session chaired by my first mentor in immunology, Dolores Jaraquemada.
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Nicolas Vabret @neoviral.bsky.social · Feb 3
Registration is now open for the next ImmunoSchool!

This year’s theme: "10 Years of Discovery in Immunotherapy." We’ve put together a stellar lineup of speakers—don’t miss it!

Free registration @ bit.ly/3WFj0Hc

#ImmunoSchool #Immunotherapy #CancerResearch
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Manel Esteller @manelesteller.bsky.social · Jan 25
Thrilled to introduce our Cell Reports @cellreports.bsky.social article, showing how the iconic 'Hallmarks of Cancer' are located in the space of real human primary tumors. A team effort co-led by Eduard Porta, Matthew H. Bailey, and yours truly #SpatialBiology #Visium
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jan 13
Top 4 things to know about doing science:
1. You need to have someone you can talk to
2. One-on-one discussions are the best
3. Think about discussions as improvisations and use the ‘yes, and’ rule
4. Create a safe space so both of you feel open to saying seemingly silly things
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Cheri Sirois @cherisirois.bsky.social · Dec 27
The last Cell issue of the year is online. This one is a doozy if you like interferons (as I do!) or transposons and ERVs (and who doesn't?!) There's also cool stem cell and dev bio in this issue, immune responses to Zika during pregnancy... cancer, plants... cool stuff! www.cell.com/cell/issue?p...
Cover art for the December 26, 2024 issue of the journal Cell. The artwork resembles spilled and swirled paint, with bright colors of pink, yellow, green, white, and black on a deep blue background. The "Cell" logo appears in bold white text in the upper left corner and the Cell Press 50th anniversary logo appears in light blue text in the bottom right corner. Taken from the published cover description: "The cover image features an artistic representation of how the fetal tripotent pancreatic stem cell (pink, yellow, and white smaller circle) gives rise to the three main cell lineages of the pancreas (pink, yellow, and green fluid lines), which together make up the pancreas organ (yellow, green, and pink larger oval). Image resources: Simona Jole Anna Lafirenze."
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Pau Badia i Mompel @paubadiam.bsky.social · Dec 23
The final chapter of my PhD thesis is now out! 🎉 We compared the latest gene regulatory network (#GRN) inference methods for #single-cell multimodal datasets and evaluated their performance across various tasks. Hard to believe this journey started in March 2021 and has finally reached this point 😅🥳
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Saez-Rodriguez Group @saezlab.bsky.social · Dec 23
We present Gene Regulatory nETwork Analsyis (GRETA), a framework to infer, compare and evaluate gene regulatory networks #GRNs. With it, we have benchmarked multimodal and unimodal GRN inference methods. Check the results here 👇
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.20.629764
Code: github.com/saezlab/greta
GRETA graphical abstract
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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · Dec 22
MAETi: Mild acid elution in a tip enables quantitative immunopeptidome profiling from 25,000 cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.628848v1
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · Dec 21
WeekendRead! @cicacanesso.bsky.social @danmucida.bsky.social @victora.bsky.social &co show @science.org that cDC1s & Rorgt APCs drive peripheral Tregs to dietary antigens, & that helminth infections increase the ratio of inflammatory cDC2 preventing tolerance induction!
Identification of antigen-presenting cell–T cell interactions driving immune responses to food
The intestinal immune system must concomitantly tolerate food and commensals and protect against pathogens. Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) orchestrate these immune responses by presenting luminal ant...
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