Person

Argenton, Francesco

Person ID: ZDB-PERS-960805-34
Email: francesco.argenton@unipd.it
URL: http://www.bio.unipd.it/argenton/
Affiliation: Argenton Lab
Address: Department of Biology University of Padova Via U. Bassi 58/B Padova, 35131 Italy
Country: Italy
Phone: 39-049-827-6229
Fax: 39-049-827-6300
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0803-8236

Biography and Research Interest

I'm very much interested in cellular decisions making process: whether a cell decide to live or die, proliferate or differentiate, shape or move is a matter of biological signals converging their activities (mostly) at the transcriptional level.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Argenton F, Vianello S, Bernardini S, Lopreiato R, Colombo L, Bortolussi M. Trout GH promoter analysis reveals a modular pattern of regulation consistent with the diversification of GH gene control and function in vertebrates. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2002 Mar 28;189(1-2):11-23.

Serena Bernardini, Francesco Argenton, Silvia Vianello, Lorenzo Colombo and Marino Bortolussi (1999). Regulatory regions in the promoter and third intron of the growth hormone gene in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum. General and comparative endocrinology Gen Comp Endocrinol. 116:261-271.

Belaid Sekkali, Hassan Brim, Marc Muller, Francesco Argenton, Marino Bortolussi, Lorenzo Colombo, Alexandra Belayew and Joseph A. Martial (1999). Structure and functional analysis of a tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) growth hormone gene: activation and repression by the pituitary transcription factor Pit-1. DNA Cell Biol.18:489-502.

Argenton F., Ramoz N., Charlet N., Bernardini S., Colombo L., Bortolussi M. (1996). Mechanisms of Transcriptional Activation of the promoter of the Rainbow Trout Prolactin Gene by GHF1/Pit1 and Glucocorticoid. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 224: 57-66.

Argenton F., Bernardini S., Puttini S., Colombo L., Bortolussi M. (1996). An TGACG motif mediates GHF1/Pit-1-dependent cAMP regulation of the rainbow trout growth hormone promoter. Eur. J. Biochem. 238: 591-598.

Argenton F., De Mas S., Malocco C., Dalla Valle L., Giorgetti G., Colombo L. (1996) Use of random DNA amplification to generate specific molecular probes for hybridization test and PCR-based diagnosis of Yersinia ruckeri. Dis. Aquat. Org. 24: 121-127.

Argenton F., Vianello S., Bernardini S., Jacquemin P., Martial J., Belayew A., Colombo L. and Bortolussi M. (1993). The transcriptional regulation of growth hormone gene is conserved in vertebrate evolution. Biochem. Biophys Res. Comm. 192: 1360-1366.

Marin G., Argenton F. (1990). Centrosome competition: a possibility ? Exp. Cell. Res. 187: 1-3.