Publications

Tod NP, Vogelauer M, Cheng C, Karimian A, Schmollinger S, Camacho D, Kurdistani SK. The role of histone H3 leucine 126 in fine-tuning the copper reductase activity of nucleosomes. J Biol Chem. 2024 Apr 22;300(6):107314.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38657861/

Cheng C, Kurdistani SK. Chromatin as a metabolic organelle: Integrating the cellular flow of carbon with gene expression. Mol Cell. 2022 Jan 6;82(1):8-9.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34995510/

Campos OA, Attar N, Cheng C, Vogelauer M, Mallipeddi NV, Schmollinger S, Matulionis N, Christofk HR, Merchant SS, Kurdistani SK. A pathogenic role for histone H3 copper reductase activity in a yeast model of Friedreich’s ataxia. Sci Adv. 2021 Dec 17;7(51):eabj9889.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34919435/

Campos OA, Kurdistani SK. More than meets the eye: the histones revealed as enzymes. The Science Breaker. 2021 7(1).
https://thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/health-physiology/more-than-meets-the-eye-the-histones-revealed-as-enzymes

Attar N, Campos OA, Vogelauer M, Cheng C, Xue Y, Schmollinger S, Salwinski L, Mallipeddi NV, Boone BA, Yen L, Yang S, Zikovich S, Dardine J, Carey MF, Merchant SS, Kurdistani SK. The histone H3-H4 tetramer is a copper reductase enzyme. Science. 2020 Jul 3;369(6499):59-64.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32631887

Calvanese V, Nguyen AT, Bolan TJ, Vavilina A, Su T, Lee LK, Wang Y, Lay FD, Magnusson M, Crooks GM, Kurdistani SK, Mikkola HKA. MLLT3 governs human haematopoietic stem-cell self-renewal and engraftment. Nature. 2019 Dec;576(7786):281-286.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31776511

Drinnenberg IA, Berger F, Elsässer SJ, Andersen PR, Ausió J, Bickmore WA, Blackwell AR, Erwin DH, Gahan JM, Gaut BS, Harvey ZH, Henikoff S, Kao JY, Kurdistani SK, Lemos B, Levine MT, Luger K, Malik HS, Martín-Durán JM, Peichel CL, Renfree MB, Rutowicz K, Sarkies P, Schmitz RJ, Technau U, Thornton JW, Warnecke T, Wolfe KH. EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution. Development. 2019 Sep 26;146(19).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558570

Sun F, Chronis C, Kronenberg M, Chen XF, Su T, Lay FD, Plath K, Kurdistani SK, Carey MF. Promoter-Enhancer Communication Occurs Primarily within Insulated Neighborhoods. Mol Cell. 2019 Jan 17;73(2):250-263.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30527662

Park JW, Lee JK, Sheu KM, Wang L, Balanis NG, Nguyen K, Smith BA, Cheng C, Tsai BL, Cheng D, Huang J, Kurdistani SK, Graeber TG, Witte ON. Reprogramming normal human epithelial tissues to a common, lethal neuroendocrine cancer lineage. Science. 2018 Oct 5;362(6410):91-95.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30287662

Xue Y, Pradhan SK, Sun F, Chronis C, Tran N, Su T, Van C, Vashisht A, Wohlschlegel J, Peterson CL, Timmers HTM, Kurdistani SK, Carey MF. Mot1, Ino80C, and NC2 Function Coordinately to Regulate Pervasive Transcription in Yeast and Mammals. Mol Cell. 2017 Aug 17;67(4):594-607.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28735899

Nakano H, Minami I, Braas D, Pappoe H, Wu X, Sagadevan A, Vergnes L, Fu K, Morselli M, Dunham C, Ding X, Stieg AZ, Gimzewski JK, Pellegrini M, Clark PM, Reue K, Lusis AJ, Ribalet B, Kurdistani SK, Christofk H, Nakatsuji N, Nakano A. Glucose inhibits cardiac muscle maturation through nucleotide biosynthesis. Elife. 2017 Dec 12;6.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29231167

Xue Y, Schmollinger S, Attar N, Campos OA, Vogelauer M, Carey MF, Merchant SS, Kurdistani SK. Endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria junction is required for iron homeostasis. J Biol Chem. 2017 Aug 11;292(32):13197-13204.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28637866

Huang C, Su T, Xue Y, Cheng C, Lay FD, McKee RA, Li M, Vashisht A, Wohlschlegel J, Novitch BG, Plath K, Kurdistani SK, Carey M. Cbx3 maintains lineage specificity during neural differentiation. Genes Dev. 2017 Feb 1;31(3):241-246
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28270516

Nguyen AH, Elliott IA, Wu N, Matsumura C, Vogelauer M, Attar N, Dann A, Ghukasyan R, Toste PA, Patel SG, Williams JL, Li L, Dawson DW, Radu C, Kurdistani SK, Donahue TR. Histone deacetylase inhibitors provoke a tumor supportive phenotype in pancreatic cancer associated fibroblasts. Oncotarget. 2017 Mar 21;8(12):19074-19088.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27894105

Attar N, Kurdistani SK. Exploitation of EP300 and CREBBP Lysine Acetyltransferases by Cancer. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2017 Mar 1;7(3)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27881443

Wang W, Org T, Montel-Hagen A, Pioli PD, Duan D, Israely E, Malkin D, Su T, Flach J, Kurdistani SK, Schiestl RH, Mikkola HK. MEF2C protects bone marrow B-lymphoid progenitors during stress haematopoiesis. Nat Commun. 2016 Aug 10;7:12376.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27507714

Monte E, Rosa-Garrido M, Karbassi E, Chen H, Lopez R, Rau CD, Wang J, Nelson SF, Wu Y, Stefani E, Lusis AJ, Wang Y, Kurdistani SK, Franklin S, Vondriska TM. Reciprocal Regulation of the Cardiac Epigenome by Chromatin Structural Proteins HMGB and CTCF: Implications for Transcriptional Regulation. J Biol Chem. 2016 May 16.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27226577

Hong CS, Graham NA, Gu W, Espindola Camacho C, Mah V, Maresh EL, Alavi M, Bagryanova L, Krotee PA, Gardner BK, Behbahan IS, Horvath S, Chia D, Mellinghoff IK, Hurvitz SA, Dubinett SM, Critchlow SE, Kurdistani SK, Goodglick L, Braas D, Graeber TG, Christofk HR. MCT1 modulates cancer cell pyruvate export and growth of tumors that co-express MCT1 and MCT4. Cell Rep. 2016 Feb 23;14(7):1590-601.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26876179

Pradhan SK, Su T, Yen L, Jacquet K, Huang C, Côté J, Kurdistani SK, Carey MF. EP400 Deposits H3.3 into Promoters and Enhancers during Gene Activation. Mol Cell. 2016 Jan 7;61(1):27-38.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26669263

Xue Y, Van C, Pradhan SK, Su T, Gehrke J, Kuryan BG, Kitada T, Vashisht A, Tran N, Wohlschlegel J, Peterson CL, Kurdistani SK, Carey MF. The Ino80 complex prevents invasion of euchromatin into silent chromatin. Genes Dev. 2015 Feb 15;29(4):350-5
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25691465

Org T, Duan D, Ferrari R, Montel-Hagen A, Van Handel B, Kerenyi MA, Sasidharan R, Rubbi L, Fujiwara Y, Pellegrini M, Orkun SH, Kurdistani SK, Mikkola HK. Scl binds to primed enhancers in mesoderm to regulate hematopoietic and cardiac fate divergence. EMBO J. 2015 Mar 12;34(6):759-77
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25564442

Ferrari R, Guo D, Jawdekar G, Johnson SA, Nava M, Su T, Yousef AF, Zemke NR, Pellegrini M, Kurdistani SK, Berk AJ. Adenovirus small E1A employs the lysine acetylases p300/CBP and tumor suppressor Rb to repress select host genes and promote productive virus infection. Cell Host Microbe. 2014 Nov 12;16(5):663-76
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25525796

Kurdistani SK. Chromatin: a capacitor of acetate for integrated regulation of gene expression and cell physiology. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2014 Jul 10; 26C:53-58.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25016437

Macadangdang BR, Oberai A, Spektor T, Campos OA, Sheng F, Carey MF, Vogelauer M, Kurdistani SK. Evolution of histone 2A for chromatin compaction in eukaryotes. Elife. 2014 Jun 17:e02792.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24939988

Thai M, Graham NA, Braas D, Nehil M, Komisopoulou E, Kurdistani SK, McCormick F, Graeber TG, Christofk HR. Adenovirus E4ORF1-induced MYC activation promotes host cell anabolic glucose metabolism and virus replication. Cell Metab. 2014 Apr 1;19(4):694-701.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24703700

Li B, Su T, Ferrari R, Li JY, Kurdistani SK. A unique epigenetic signature is associated with active DNA replication loci in human embryonic stem cells. Epigenetics. 2013 Oct 29;9(2).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24172870

Cherrier T, Le Douce V, Eilebrecht S, Riclet R, Marban C, Dequiedt F, Goumon Y, Paillart JC, Mericskay M, Parlakian A, Bausero P, Abbas W, Herbein G, Kurdistani SK, Grana X, Van Driessche B, Schwartz C, Candolfi E, Benecke AG, Van Lint C, Rohr O. CTIP2 is a negative regulator of P-TEFb. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jul 30;110(31):12655-60.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23852730

Babic I, Anderson ES, Tanaka K, Guo D, Masui K, Li B, Zhu S, Gu Y, Villa GR, Akhavan D, Nathanson D, Gini B, Mareninov S, Li R, Camacho CE, Kurdistani SK, Eskin A, Nelson SF, Yong WH, Cavenee WK, Cloughesy TF, Christofk HR, Black DL, Mischel PS. EGFR mutation-induced alternative splicing of Max contributes to growth of glycolytic tumors in brain cancer. Cell Metab. 2013 Jun 4;17(6):1000-8.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23707073

McBrian MA, Behbahan IS, Ferrari R, Su T, Huang TW, Li K, Hong CS, Christofk HR, Vogelauer M, Seligson DB, Kurdistani SK. Histone acetylation regulates intracellular pH. Mol Cell. 2013 Jan 24;49(2):310-21.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23201122

Chen XF, Lehmann L, Lin JJ, Vashisht A, Schmidt R, Ferrari R, Huang C, McKee R, Mosley A, Plath K, Kurdistani SK, Wohlschlegel J, Carey M. Mediator and SAGA have distinct roles in Pol II preinitiation complex assembly and function. Cell Rep. 2012 Nov 29;2(5):1061-7.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23177621

Li JY, Patterson M, Mikkola HK, Lowry WE, Kurdistani SK. Dynamic distribution of linker histone H1.5 in cellular differentiation. PLoS Genet. 2012;8(8):e1002879.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22956909

Lehmann L, Ferrari R, Vashisht AA, Wohlschlegel JA, Kurdistani SK, Carey M. Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) disassembles RNA polymerase II preinitiation complexes. J Biol Chem. 2012 Oct 19;287(43):35784-94.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22910904

Van Handel B, Montel-Hagen A, Sasidharan R, Nakano H, Ferrari R, Boogerd CJ, Schredelseker J, Wang Y, Hunter S, Org T, Zhou J, Li X, Pellegrini M, Chen JN, Orkin SH, Kurdistani SK, Evans SM, Nakano A, Mikkola HK. Scl represses cardiomyogenesis in prospective hemogenic endothelium and endocardium. Cell. 2012 Aug 3;150(3):590-605.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22863011

Vogelauer M, Krall AS, McBrian MA, Li JY, Kurdistani SK. Stimulation of histone deacetylase activity by metabolites of intermediary metabolism. J Biol Chem. 2012 Sep4;287(38):32006-16.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22822071

Kurdistani SK. Enhancer dysfunction: how the main regulators of gene expression contribute to cancer. Genome Biol. 2012;13(5):156.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22621675

Ferrari R, Su T, Li B, Bonora G, Oberai A, Chan Y, Sasidharan R, Berk AJ, Pellegrini M, Kurdistani SK. Reorganization of the host epigenome by a viral oncogene. Genome Res. 2012 Jul;22(7):1212-21.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22499665

Chen XF, Kuryan B, Kitada T, Tran N, Li JY, Kurdistani S, Grunstein M, Li B, Carey M. The Rpd3 core complex is a chromatin stabilization module. Curr Biol. 2012 Jan 10;22(1):56-63.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22177115

Marban C, Su T, Ferrari R, Li B, Vatakis D, Pellegrini M, Zack JA, Rohr O, Kurdistani SK. Genome-wide binding map of the HIV-1 Tat protein to the human genome. PLoS One. 2011;6(11):e26894.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22073215

Kurdistani SK. Histone modifications in cancer biology and prognosis. Prog Drug Res. 2011;67:91-106. Review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21141726

Manuyakorn A, Paulus R, Farrell J, Dawson NA, Tze S, Cheung-Lau G, Hines OJ, Reber H, Seligson DB, Horvath S, Kurdistani SK, Guha C, Dawson DW. Cellular histone modification patterns predict prognosis and treatment response in resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma: results from RTOG 9704. J Clin Oncol. 2010 Mar 10;28(8):1358-65.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20142597

Seligson DB, Horvath S, McBrian MA, Mah V, Yu H, Tze S, Wang Q, Chia D, Goodglick L, Kurdistani SK. Global levels of histone modifications predict prognosis in different cancers. Am J Pathol. 2009 May;174(5):1619-28.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19349354

Ferrari R, Berk AJ, Kurdistani SK. Viral manipulation of the host epigenome for oncogenic transformation. Nat Rev Genet. 2009 May;10(5):290-4.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19290008

Gekas C, Rhodes KE, Gereige LM, Helgadottir H, Ferrari R, Kurdistani SK, Montecino-Rodriguez E, Bassel-Duby R, Olson E, Krivtsov AV, Armstrong S, Orkin SH, Pellegrini M, Mikkola HK. Mef2C is a lineage-restricted target of Scl/Tal1 and regulates megakaryopoiesis and B-cell homeostasis. Blood. 2009 Apr 9;113(15):3461-71.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19211936

Ferrari R, Pellegrini M, Horwitz GA, Xie W, Berk AJ, Kurdistani SK. Epigenetic reprogramming by adenovirus e1a. Science. 2008 Aug 22;321(5892):1086-8.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18719284

Horwitz GA, Zhang K, McBrian MA, Grunstein M, Kurdistani SK, Berk AJ. Adenovirus small e1a alters global patterns of histone modification. Science. 2008 Aug 22;321(5892):1084-5.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18719283

Peng W, Togawa C, Zhang K, Kurdistani SK. Regulators of cellular levels of histone acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2008 May;179(1):277-89.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493053

Pham H, Ferrari R, Cokus SJ, Kurdistani SK, Pellegrini M. Modeling the regulatory network of histone acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Syst Biol. 2007;3:153.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18091724

Kurdistani SK. Histone modifications as markers of cancer prognosis: a cellular view. Br J Cancer. 2007 Jul 2;97(1):1-5. Epub 2007 Jun 26. Review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17592497

Keogh MC, Kurdistani SK, Morris SA, Ahn SH, Podolny V, Collins SR, Schuldiner M, Chin K, Punna T, Thompson NJ, Boone C, Emili A, Weissman JS, Hughes TR, Strahl BD, Grunstein M, Greenblatt JF, Buratowski S, Krogan NJ. Cotranscriptional set2 methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 recruits a repressive Rpd3 complex. Cell. 2005 Nov 18;123(4):593-605.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16286008

Seligson DB, Horvath S, Shi T, Yu H, Tze S, Grunstein M, Kurdistani SK. Global histone modification patterns predict risk of prostate cancer recurrence. Nature. 2005 Jun 30;435(7046):1262-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15988529

Millar CB, Kurdistani SK, Grunstein M. Acetylation of yeast histone H4 lysine 16: a switch for protein interactions in heterochromatin and euchromatin. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2004;69:193-200. Review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16117649

Kim KT, Ongusaha PP, Hong YK, Kurdistani SK, Nakamura M, Lu KP, Lee SW. Function of Drg1/Rit42 in p53-dependent mitotic spindle checkpoint. J Biol Chem. 2004 Sep 10;279(37):38597-602.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15247272

Kurdistani SK, Tavazoie S, Grunstein M. Mapping global histone acetylation patterns to gene expression. Cell. 2004 Jun 11;117(6):721-33.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15186774

Robyr D, Kurdistani SK, Grunstein M. Analysis of genome-wide histone acetylation state and enzyme binding using DNA microarrays. Methods Enzymol. 2004;376:289-304.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14975313

Kurdistani SK, Grunstein M. In vivo protein-protein and protein-DNA crosslinking for genomewide binding microarray. Methods. 2003 Sep;31(1):90-5.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12893178

Kurdistani SK, Grunstein M. Histone acetylation and deacetylation in yeast. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2003 Apr;4(4):276-84. Review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12671650

Wang A, Kurdistani SK, Grunstein M. Requirement of Hos2 histone deacetylase for gene activity in yeast. Science. 2002 Nov 15;298(5597):1412-4.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12434058

Kurdistani SK, Robyr D, Tavazoie S, Grunstein M. Genome-wide binding map of the histone deacetylase Rpd3 in yeast. Nat Genet. 2002 Jul;31(3):248-54.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12089521

Robyr D, Suka Y, Xenarios I, Kurdistani SK, Wang A, Suka N, Grunstein M. Microarray deacetylation maps determine genome-wide functions for yeast histone deacetylases. Cell. 2002 May 17;109(4):437-46.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12086601

Reimer CL, Borras AM, Kurdistani SK, Garreau JR, Chung M, Aaronson SA, Lee SW. Altered regulation of cyclin G in human breast cancer and its specific localization at replication foci in response to DNA damage in p53+/+ cells. J Biol Chem. 1999 Apr 16;274(16):11022-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10196184

Kurdistani SK, Arizti P, Reimer CL, Sugrue MM, Aaronson SA, Lee SW. Inhibition of tumor cell growth by RTP/rit42 and its responsiveness to p53 and DNA damage. Cancer Res. 1998 Oct 1;58(19):4439-44.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9766676

Kurdistani SK, Robbins TA, and Cram DJ. Comparisons of activation energies for dimethyl sulfoxide rotations in the inner phase of seven carcerands. Chem. Comm. 1995; 117: 1259-1260.

Kurdistani SK, Helgeson RC, and Cram DJ. Stepwise shell closures provide hosts that expose or protect guests from outer phase reactants. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995; 117: 1659-1660.