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Overview

Charles Vinson is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and specializes in research spanning biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on medicine. Their work primarily investigates molecular biology, immunology, physiology, rheumatology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's research covers several key topics, including:

  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • DNA and Biological Computing
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research

Charles Vinson has authored publications in prominent venues such as:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Science Immunology
  • Cancer
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Oncology

Examples of recent papers authored by Vinson include:

  • "Decoding complexity in biomolecular recognition of DNA i-motifs with microarrays," 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "NuRD complex recruitment to Thpok mediates CD4 + T cell lineage differentiation," 2022, Science Immunology
  • "PEC-PRO: A new prognostic score from a series of 87 patients with localized perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasms (PEComas) treated with curative intent," 2024, Cancer
  • "DECODING COMPLEXITY IN BIOMOLECULAR RECOGNITION OF DNA I-MOTIFS," 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Structural basis for glucocorticoid receptor recognition of both unmodified and methylated binding sites, precursors of a modern recognition element," 2021, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent collaborators with Vinson include:

  • Kamyar Yazdani
  • Srinath Seshadri
  • Desiree Tillo
  • John S. Schneekloth
  • Justine Gantzer

Best Publications

  • Leptin Inhibits Bone Formation through a Hypothalamic Relay: A Central Control of Bone Mass

    Patricia Ducy;Michael Amling;Shu Takeda;Matthias Priemel

  • Impact of cytosine methylation on DNA binding specificities of human transcription factors.

    Yimeng Yin;Ekaterina Morgunova;Arttu Jolma;Eevi Kaasinen

  • Liver Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ Contributes to Hepatic Steatosis, Triglyceride Clearance, and Regulation of Body Fat Mass

    Oksana Gavrilova;Martin Haluzik;Kimihiko Matsusue;Jaime J. Cutson

  • Surgical implantation of adipose tissue reverses diabetes in lipoatrophic mice

    Oksana Gavrilova;Bernice Marcus-Samuels;David Graham;Jason K. Kim

  • A Dominant-Negative Inhibitor of CREB Reveals that It Is a General Mediator of Stimulus-Dependent Transcription of c-fos

    Sohyun Ahn;Michelle Olive;Seema Aggarwal;Dmitry Krylov

  • Transcription Factor AP1 Potentiates Chromatin Accessibility and Glucocorticoid Receptor Binding

    Simon C. Biddie;Sam John;Pete J. Sabo;Robert E. Thurman

  • Classification of human B-ZIP proteins based on dimerization properties.

    Charles Vinson;Max Myakishev;Asha Acharya;Alain A. Mir

  • Adipose tissue is required for the antidiabetic, but not for the hypolipidemic, effect of thiazolidinediones

    Lily Chao;Bernice Marcus-Samuels;Mark M. Mason;Jaideep Moitra

  • Role of CREB in Transcriptional Regulation of CCAAT/Enhancer-binding Protein β Gene during Adipogenesis

    Jiang-Wen Zhang;Dwight J. Klemm;Charles Vinson;M. Daniel Lane

  • A thermodynamic scale for leucine zipper stability and dimerization specificity: e and g interhelical interactions.

    D. Krylov;I. Mikhailenko;C. Vinson

  • A dominant negative to activation protein-1 (AP1) that abolishes DNA binding and inhibits oncogenesis

    Michelle Olive;Dmitry Krylov;Deborah R. Echlin;Kevin Gardner

  • Clustering of DNA Sequences in Human Promoters

    Peter C. FitzGerald;Andrey Shlyakhtenko;Alain A. Mir;Charles Vinson

  • WY14,643, a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) agonist, improves hepatic and muscle steatosis and reverses insulin resistance in lipoatrophic A-ZIP/F-1 mice

    Chieh J. Chou;Martin Haluzik;Charmaine Gregory;Kelly R. Dietz

  • CpG methylation of half-CRE sequences creates C/EBPα binding sites that activate some tissue-specific genes

    Vikas Rishi;Paramita Bhattacharya;Raghunath Chatterjee;Julian Rozenberg

  • An Essential Role for a MEK-C/EBP Pathway during Growth Factor-Regulated Cortical Neurogenesis

    Catherine Ménard;Paul Hein;Annie Paquin;Annie Paquin;Aviva Savelson

  • C/EBP maintains chromatin accessibility in liver and facilitates glucocorticoid receptor recruitment to steroid response elements

    Lars Grøntved;Sam John;Songjoon Baek;Ying Liu

  • Diminished hepatocellular proliferation in mice humanized for the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α

    Connie Cheung;Taro E. Akiyama;Jerrold M. Ward;Christopher J. Nicol

  • Bookmarking by specific and nonspecific binding of FoxA1 pioneer factor to mitotic chromosomes

    Juan Manuel Caravaca;Greg Donahue;Justin S. Becker;Ximiao He

  • Dominant-negative C/EBP disrupts mitotic clonal expansion and differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes.

    Jiang Wen Zhang;Qi Qun Tang;Charles Vinson;M. Daniel Lane

  • Deciphering B-ZIP transcription factor interactions in vitro and in vivo.

    Charles Vinson;Asha Acharya;Elizabeth J. Taparowsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Oksana Gavrilova
Oksana Gavrilova National Institutes of Health
Marc L. Reitman
Marc L. Reitman National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Gerald Thiel
Gerald Thiel Saarland University
Elizabeth J. Taparowsky
Elizabeth J. Taparowsky Purdue University West Lafayette
Stuart H. Yuspa
Stuart H. Yuspa National Institutes of Health
Robert H. Shoemaker
Robert H. Shoemaker National Institutes of Health
Michael Eckhaus
Michael Eckhaus National Institutes of Health
Matthew T. Weirauch
Matthew T. Weirauch Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Gordon L. Hager
Gordon L. Hager National Institutes of Health
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos University of Washington

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