Publications & Journal Clubs
Publications
Multifactorial profiling of epigenetic landscapes at single-cell resolution using MulTI-Tag. Meers MP, Llagas G, Janssens DH, Codomo CA, Henikoff S. Nat Biotechnol. 2023 May;41(5):708-716. doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01522-9. Epub 2022 Oct 31. PMID: 36316484
Distinct roles for canonical and variant histone H3 lysine-36 in Polycomb silencing. Salzler HR, Vandadi V, McMichael BD, Brown JC, Boerma SA, Leatham-Jensen MP, Adams KM, Meers MP, Simon JM, Duronio RJ, McKay DJ, Matera AG. Sci Adv. 2023 Mar;9(9):eadf2451. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf2451. Epub 2023 Mar 1. PMID: 36857457
Nucleosome Patterns in Circulating Tumor DNA Reveal Transcriptional Regulation of Advanced Prostate Cancer Phenotypes. De Sarkar N, Patton RD, Doebley AL, Hanratty B, Adil M, Kreitzman AJ, Sarthy JF, Ko M, Brahma S, Meers MP, Janssens DH, Ang LS, Coleman IM, Bose A, Dumpit RF, Lucas JM, Nunez TA, Nguyen HM, McClure HM, Pritchard CC, Schweizer MT, Morrissey C, Choudhury AD, Baca SC, Berchuck JE, Freedman ML, Ahmad K, Haffner MC, Montgomery RB, Corey E, Henikoff S, Nelson PS, Ha G. Cancer Discov. 2023 Mar 1;13(3):632-653. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-0692. PMID: 36399432
CUT&Tag2for1: a modified method for simultaneous profiling of the accessible and silenced regulome in single cells. Janssens DH, Otto DJ, Meers MP, Setty M, Ahmad K, Henikoff S. Genome Biol. 2022 Mar 17;23(1):81. doi: 10.1186/s13059-022-02642-w. PMID: 35300717
Automated CUT&Tag profiling of chromatin heterogeneity in mixed-lineage leukemia. Janssens DH, Meers MP, Wu SJ, Babaeva E, Meshinchi S, Sarthy JF, Ahmad K, Henikoff S. Nat Genet. 2021 Nov;53(11):1586-1596. doi: 10.1038/s41588-021-00941-9. Epub 2021 Oct 18. PMID: 34663924
Selective androgen receptor modulators activate the canonical prostate cancer androgen receptor program and repress cancer growth. Nyquist MD, Ang LS, Corella A, Coleman IM, Meers MP, Christiani AJ, Pierce C, Janssens DH, Meade HE, Bose A, Brady L, Howard T, De Sarkar N, Frank SB, Dumpit RF, Dalton JT, Corey E, Plymate SR, Haffner MC, Mostaghel EA, Nelson PS. J Clin Invest. 2021 Jun 15;131(12):e151719. doi: 10.1172/JCI151719. PMID: 34128479
Selective androgen receptor modulators activate the canonical prostate cancer androgen receptor program and repress cancer growth. Nyquist MD, Ang LS, Corella A, Coleman IM, Meers MP, Christiani AJ, Pierce C, Janssens DH, Meade HE, Bose A, Brady L, Howard T, De Sarkar N, Frank SB, Dumpit RF, Dalton JT, Corey E, Plymate SR, Haffner MC, Mostaghel EA, Nelson PS. J Clin Invest. 2021 May 17;131(10):e146777. doi: 10.1172/JCI146777. PMID: 33998604
Histone deposition pathways determine the chromatin landscapes of H3.1 and H3.3 K27M oncohistones. Sarthy JF, Meers MP, Janssens DH, Henikoff JG, Feldman H, Paddison PJ, Lockwood CM, Vitanza NA, Olson JM, Ahmad K, Henikoff S.Elife. 2020 Sep 9;9:e61090. doi: 10.7554/eLife.61090. PMID: 32902381
MYCN amplification and ATRX mutations are incompatible in neuroblastoma. Zeineldin M, Federico S, Chen X, Fan Y, Xu B, Stewart E, Zhou X, Jeon J, Griffiths L, Nguyen R, Norrie J, Easton J, Mulder H, Yergeau D, Liu Y, Wu J, Van Ryn C, Naranjo A, Hogarty MD, Kamiński MM, Valentine M, Pruett-Miller SM, Pappo A, Zhang J, Clay MR, Bahrami A, Vogel P, Lee S, Shelat A, Sarthy JF, Meers MP, George RE, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Henikoff S, Downing JR, Dyer MA. Nat Commun. 2020 Feb 14;11(1):913. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14682-6. PMID: 32060267
Pioneer Factor-Nucleosome Binding Events during Differentiation Are Motif Encoded. Meers MP, Janssens DH, Henikoff S.Mol Cell. 2019 Aug 8;75(3):562-575.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.05.025. Epub 2019 Jun 25. PMID: 31253573
Peak calling by Sparse Enrichment Analysis for CUT&RUN chromatin profiling. Meers MP, Tenenbaum D, Henikoff S. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2019 Jul 12;12(1):42. doi: 10.1186/s13072-019-0287-4. PMID: 31300027
Improved CUT&RUN chromatin profiling tools. Meers MP, Bryson TD, Henikoff JG, Henikoff S. Elife. 2019 Jun 24;8:e46314. doi: 10.7554/eLife.46314. PMID: 31232687
Old cogs, new tricks: the evolution of gene expression in a chromatin context. Talbert PB, Meers MP, Henikoff S. Nat Rev Genet. 2019 May;20(5):283-297. doi: 10.1038/s41576-019-0105-7. PMID: 30886348
Automated in situ chromatin profiling efficiently resolves cell types and gene regulatory programs. Janssens DH, Wu SJ, Sarthy JF,
Meers MP, Myers CH, Olson JM, Ahmad K, Henikoff S. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2018 Dec 21;11(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s13072-018-0243-8.
PMID: 30577869Transcription start site profiling uncovers divergent transcription and enhancer-associated RNAs in Drosophila melanogaster. Meers MP, Adelman K, Duronio RJ, Strahl BD, McKay DJ, Matera AG. BMC Genomics. 2018 Feb 21;19(1):157. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-4510-7. PMID: 29466941
An Animal Model for Genetic Analysis of Multi-Gene Families: Cloning and Transgenesis of Large Tandemly Repeated Histone Gene Clusters. Meers MP, Leatham-Jensen M, Penke TJR, McKay DJ, Duronio RJ, Matera AG. Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1832:309-325. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8663-7_17. PMID: 30073535
Histone gene replacement reveals a post-transcriptional role for H3K36 in maintaining metazoan transcriptome fidelity. Meers MP, Henriques T, Lavender CA, McKay DJ, Strahl BD, Duronio RJ, Adelman K, Matera AG. Elife. 2017 Mar 27;6:e23249. doi: 10.7554/eLife.23249. PMID: 28346137
Interrogating the function of metazoan histones using engineered gene clusters. McKay DJ, Klusza S, Penke TJ, Meers MP, Curry KP, McDaniel SL, Malek PY, Cooper SW, Tatomer DC, Lieb JD, Strahl BD, Duronio RJ, Matera AG. Dev Cell. 2015 Feb 9;32(3):373-86. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.12.025. PMID: 25669886
Poly(A) RNA-binding proteins and polyadenosine RNA: new members and novel functions. Wigington CP, Williams KR, Meers MP, Bassell GJ, Corbett AH. Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA. 2014 Sep-Oct;5(5):601-22. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1233. Epub 2014 Apr 30. PMID: 24789627
Developmental arrest of Drosophila survival motor neuron (Smn) mutants accounts for differences in expression of minor intron-containing genes. Garcia EL, Lu Z, Meers MP, Praveen K, Matera AG. RNA. 2013 Nov;19(11):1510-6. doi: 10.1261/rna.038919.113. Epub 2013 Sep 4.
PMID: 24006466
Journal Clubs
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Molecular and epistatic interactions between pioneer transcription factors shape nucleosome dynamics and cell differentiation. Coux, RX, Dubois, A, Chervova, A, Festuccia, N, Gonzalez, I, Vandormael-Pournin, S, Cohen-Tannoudji, M, Navarro, P. bioRxiv 2024.05.27.596047; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.27.596047
Systematic epigenome editing captures the context-dependent instructive function of chromatin modifications. Policarpi, C., Munafò, M., Tsagkris, S. et al. Nat Genet 56, 1168–1180 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01706-w
Decoding chromatin states by proteomic profiling of nucleosome readers. Lukauskas, S., Tvardovskiy, A., Nguyen, N.V. et al. Nature 627, 671–679 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07141-5
Regulation of chromatin architecture by transcription factor binding. Portillo-Ledesma S, Chung S, Hoffman J, Schlick T. eLife. 2024 Jan;12:RP91320. doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91320.3
Cellular reprogramming in vivo initiated by SOX4 pioneer factor activity. Katsuda, T., Sussman, J.H., Ito, K. et al. Nat Commun 15, 1761 (2024).
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45939-zMultifaceted SOX2-chromatin interaction underpins pluripotency progression in early embryos. Lijia Li et al. Science 382, eadi5516 (2023).
doi: 10.1126/science.adi5516Systematic Dissection of Sequence Features Affecting the Binding Specificity of a Pioneer Factor Reveals Binding Synergy Between FOXA1 and AP-1. Xu et al. bioRxiv 2023.11.08.566246; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.08.566246