keywords mechanisms of mammalian RNA polymerase II transcription, non-coding RNA regulators of RNA polymerase II, SINE encoded RNAs, single molecule FRET studies of transcription complexes
selected publications book Binding and Kinetics for Molecular Biologists 2007 chapter Transcription: The never ending story 2013 The role of non-coding RNAs in controlling mammalian RNA polymerase II transcription 2008 conference proceeding Understanding the Mechanisms of Human RNA Polymerase II Transcription using Single Molecule Fluorescence Colocalization. Biophysical Journal. 211A-212A. 2014 Human TBP Bending of DNA Measured at the Single Molecule Level. Biophysical Journal. 57A-57A. 2009 Transcriptional repression by non-coding RNA regulators of the mammalian heat shock response. The FASEB Journal. 2008 An apparent motor function for nuclear myosin I and beta-actin in transcription.. Biophysical Journal. 410A-410A. 2002 journal article Single-molecule Microscopy Reveals That TFIIE Subunits Dynamically Interact With Preinitiation Complexes in a Manner Impacted by TFIIH.. Journal of Molecular Biology. 169528. 2025 Mechanisms and Functions of the RNA Polymerase II General Transcription Machinery during the Transcription Cycle. Biomolecules. 2024 Short-term exposure to ethanol induces transcriptional changes in nontumorigenic breast cells. FEBS Open Bio. 1941-1952. 2023 Single molecule studies characterize the kinetic mechanism of tetrameric p53 binding to different native response elements. PLoS ONE. 2023 Multiple RNA- and DNA- binding proteins exhibit direct transfer of polynucleotides with implications for target- site search. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2023 Interactions of HMGB Proteins with the Genome and the Impact on Disease. Biomolecules. 2021 The Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Protein ICP4 Acts as both an Activator and a Repressor of Host Genome Transcription during Infection. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 2021 Single molecule studies reveal that p53 tetramers dynamically bind response elements containing one or two half sites. Scientific Reports. 2020 miR-206 knockout shows it is critical for myogenesis and directly regulates newly identified target mRNAs. RNA Biology. 956-965. 2020 Release of Human TFIIB from Actively Transcribing Complexes Is Triggered upon Synthesis of 7-and 9-nt RNAs. Journal of Molecular Biology. 4049-4060. 2020 Double-Stranded RNA Is a Novel Molecular Target in Osteomyelitis Pathogenesis A Translational Avian Model for Human Bacterial Chondronecrosis with Osteomyelitis. American Journal of Pathology. 2077-2089. 2019 Monitoring transcriptional activity by RNA polymerase II in vitro using single molecule co-localization. Methods. 45-50. 2019 Heat Shock Causes a Reversible Increase in RNA Polymerase II Occupancy Downstream of mRNA Genes, Consistent with a Global Loss in Transcriptional Termination. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 2018 A new phase in transcription. Nature. 197-198. 2018 Finding the start site: redefining the human initiator element. Genes & Development. 1-2. 2017 Infection by Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Causes Near-Complete Loss of RNA Polymerase II Occupancy on the Host Cell Genome (vol 90, pg 2503, 2016). Journal of Virology. 11279-11279. 2016 The HMGB1 C-Terminal Tail Regulates DNA Bending. Journal of Molecular Biology. 4060-4072. 2016 Single molecule microscopy reveals mechanistic insight into RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex assembly and transcriptional activity. Nucleic Acids Research (NAR). 7132-7143. 2016 Noncoding RNAs: Regulators of the Mammalian Transcription Machinery. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2652-2659. 2016 Infection by Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Causes Near-Complete Loss of RNA Polymerase II Occupancy on the Host Cell Genome. Journal of Virology. 2503-2513. 2016 Repression of RNA Polymerase II Transcription by B2 RNA Depends on a Specific Pattern of Structural Regions in the RNA.. Non-Coding RNA. 4-16. 2015 Studying the Affinity, Kinetic Stability, and Specificity of RNA/Protein Interactions: SINE ncRNA/Pol II Complexes as a Model System. Methods in Molecular Biology. 165-178. 2015 A new twist on cell growth control. Cell Cycle. 3474-3475. 2014 Selection and Characterization of a DNA Aptamer That Can Discriminate between cJun/cJun and cJun/cFos. PLoS ONE. 2014 Single molecule studies of RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro. Transcription. 2014 Single molecule studies of RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro.. Transcription. e27608. 2014 NFATc2 recruits cJun homodimers to an NFAT site to synergistically activate interleukin-2 transcription. Molecular Immunology. 48-56. 2013 Structural Insights into Transcriptional Repression by Noncoding RNAs That Bind to Human Pol II. Journal of Molecular Biology. 3639-3648. 2013 The Non-Coding B2 RNA Binds to the DNA Cleft and Active-Site Region of RNA Polymerase II. Journal of Molecular Biology. 3625-3638. 2013 RNA polymerase II acts as an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase to extend and destabilize a non-coding RNA. EMBO Journal. 781-790. 2013 The regulation of mammalian mRNA transcription by lncRNAs: recent discoveries and current concepts. Epigenomics. 95-102. 2013 Using FRET to monitor protein-induced DNA bending: the TBP-TATA complex as a model system.. Methods in Molecular Biology. 203-215. 2013 Single-Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Shows Uniformity in TATA Binding Protein-Induced DNA Bending and Heterogeneity in Bending Kinetics. Biochemistry. 7444-7455. 2012 ERK1/2 activation is a therapeutic target in age-related macular degeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 13781-13786. 2012 DICER1 Loss and Alu RNA Induce Age-Related Macular Degeneration via the NLRP3 Inflammasome and MyD88. Cell. 847-859. 2012 Non-coding RNAs: key regulators of mammalian transcription. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 144-151. 2012 DICER1 deficit induces Alu RNA toxicity in age-related macular degeneration. Nature. 325-+. 2011 XPB, a subunit of TFIIH, is a target of the natural product triptolide. Nature Chemical Biology. 182-188. 2011 B2 RNA represses TFIIH phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II. Transcription. 45-49. 2011 The C-terminal region of human NFATc2 binds dun to synergistically activate interleukin-2 transcription. Molecular Immunology. 2314-2322. 2010 Unexpected roles for core promoter recognition factors in cell-type-specific transcription and gene regulation. Nature Reviews Genetics. 549-558. 2010 Dampening DNA binding A common mechanism of transcriptional repression for both ncRNAs and protein domains. RNA Biology. 305-309. 2010 Genomic gems: SINE RNAs regulate mRNA production. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 149-155. 2010 RNA Polymerase II and TAFs Undergo a Slow Isomerization after the Polymerase Is Recruited to Promoter-Bound TFIID. Journal of Molecular Biology. 57-68. 2010 Genome-wide insights into eukaryotic transcriptional control.. Genome Biology. 305. 2010 TFIIF Facilitates Dissociation of RNA Polymerase II from Noncoding RNAs That Lack a Repression Domain. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 91-97. 2010 InvAluable Junk: The Cellular Impact and Function of Alu and B2 RNAs. IUBMB Life. 831-837. 2009 In new company: U1 snRNA associates with TAF15. EMBO Reports. 454-456. 2009 B2 RNA and Alu RNA repress transcription by disrupting contacts between RNA polymerase II and promoter DNA within assembled complexes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 5569-5574. 2009 TATA-binding Protein and Transcription Factor IIB Induce Transcript Slipping during Early Transcription by RNA Polymerase II. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 9093-9098. 2009 From bacteria to humans, chromatin to elongation, and activation to repression: The expanding roles of noncoding RNAs in regulating transcription. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 3-15. 2009 Human Alu RNA is a modular transacting repressor of mRNA transcription during heat shock. Molecular Cell. 499-509. 2008 TFIIA changes the conformation of the DNA in TBP/TATA complexes and increases their kinetic stability. Journal of Molecular Biology. 619-632. 2007 Characterization of the sequence and architectural constraints of the regulatory and core regions of the human interleukin-2 promoter. Molecular Immunology. 2813-2819. 2007 Characterization of the structure, function, and mechanism of B2 RNA, an ncRNA repressor of RNA polymerase II transcription. RNA: A publication of the RNA Society. 583-596. 2007 An RNA transcriptional regulator templates its own regulatory RNA. Nature Chemical Biology. 89-90. 2007 Nuclear myosin I is necessary for the formation of the first phosphodiester bond during transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 1001-1009. 2006 Non-coding-RNA regulators of RNA polymerase II transcription. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 612-616. 2006 An 8 nt RNA triggers a rate-limiting shift of RNA polymerase II complexes into elongation. EMBO Journal. 3100-3109. 2006 Beating the heat: A translation factor and an RNA mobilize the heat shock transcription factor HSF1. Molecular Cell. 153-154. 2006 Protein-protein interaction assays: eliminating false positive interactions. Nature Methods. 135-139. 2006 The sequence at specific positions in the early transcribed region sets the rate of transcript synthesis by RNA polymerase II in vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 39860-39869. 2005 Actin is part of pre-initiation complexes and is necessary for transcription by RNA polymerase II. Nature Cell Biology. 1094-U18. 2004 B2 RNA binds directly to RNA polymerase II to repress transcript synthesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 822-829. 2004 The SINE-encoded mouse B2 RNA represses mRNA transcription in response to heat shock. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 816-821. 2004 The basic leucine zipper domain of c-Jun functions in transcriptional activation through interaction with the N terminus of human TATA-binding protein-associated factor-1 (human TAFII250). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 26257-26265. 2004 In vitro studies of the early steps of RNA synthesis by human RNA polymerase II. Methods in Enzymology. 687-701. 2003 Binding of beta-actin to TATA binding protein (TBP), pre-initiation complex (PIC) formation and transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). Molecular Biology of the Cell. 421A-421A. 2002 Myosin I and transcription by RNA polymerase I and II. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 179A-179A. 2002 Phosphatase inhibition leads to histone deacetylases 1 and 2 phosphorylation and disruption of corepressor interactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 19618-19626. 2002 Promoter scanning for transcription inhibition with DNA-binding polyamides. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1723-1733. 2002 Translocation after synthesis of a four-nucleotide RNA commits RNA polymerase II to promoter escape. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 762-773. 2002 Kinetic and mechanistic analysis of the RNA polymerase II transcription reaction at the human interleukin-2 promoter. Journal of Molecular Biology. 993-1006. 2001 Kinetic and mechanistic analysis of the RNA polymerase II transcrption reaction at the human interleukin-2 promoter.. Journal of Molecular Biology. 993-1006. 2001 Expression and purification of recombinant human c-Fos/c-Jun that is highly active in DNA binding and transcriptional activation in vitro. Nucleic Acids Research (NAR). art. no.-e98. 2001 c-Jun binds the N terminus of human TAF(II)250 to derepress RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 25582-25588. 2001 Human TAFII130 is a coactivator for NFATp. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 3503-3513. 2001 A kinetic model for the early steps of RNA synthesis by human RNA polymerase II. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 40483-40491. 2000 Acetyl coenzyme A stimulates RNA polymerase II transcription and promoter binding by transcription factor IID in the absence of histones. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1923-1930. 2000 Characterization of DNA binding, transcriptional activation, and regulated nuclear association of recombinant human NFATp.. BMC Immunology. 1. 2000 Promoter escape limits the rate of RNA polymerase II transcription and is enhanced by TFIIE, TFIIH, and ATP on negatively supercoiled DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 9232-9237. 1998 Repression of p53-mediated transcription by MDM2: a dual mechanism. Genes & Development. 1974-1986. 1997 Contacts in context: promoter specificity and macromolecular interactions in transcription.. Cell. 825-830. 1996 Molecular cloning and expression of the 32-kDa subunit of human TFIID reveals interactions with VP16 and TFIIB that mediate transcriptional activation.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 5788-5792. 1995 TBP-TAF complexes: selectivity factors for eukaryotic transcription.. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 403-409. 1994 Transcription factors IIE and IIH and ATP hydrolysis direct promoter clearance by RNA polymerase II.. Cell. 145-156. 1994 Transcription factor IIE binds preferentially to RNA polymerase IIa and recruits TFIIH: a model for promoter clearance.. Genes & Development. 515-524. 1994 Drosophila TAFII40 interacts with both a VP16 activation domain and the basal transcription factor TFIIB.. Cell. 519-530. 1993 Drosophila TFIIA-L is processed into two subunits that are associated with the TBP/TAF complex.. Genes & Development. 2235-2245. 1993 Regulation of open complex formation at the Escherichia coli galactose operon promoters. Simultaneous interaction of RNA polymerase, gal repressor and CAP/cAMP.. Journal of Molecular Biology. 15-29. 1992 Competing promoters in prokaryotic transcription.. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 394-397. 1991 Searching for and predicting the activity of sites for DNA binding proteins: compilation and analysis of the binding sites for Escherichia coli integration host factor (IHF).. Nucleic Acids Research (NAR). 4993-5000. 1990
awards and honors New Inventor of the Year, conferred by Office of Technology Transfer, 2006 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, conferred by Pew Charitable Trusts, The, 1999
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