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David J. Stillman

David J. Stillman

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
61
Citations
9905
World Ranking
1923
National Ranking
955

Overview

David J. Stillman is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and works primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research concentrates notably on areas related to molecular biology and genetics, with additional contributions to endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Stillman's published works cover several specialized topics, including:

  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Genomics and chromatin dynamics
  • RNA research and splicing
  • DNA repair mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Plant reproductive biology

The scientist has authored numerous papers, among which notable recent titles include:

  • "A Role for Mediator Core in Limiting Coactivator Recruitment in Saccharomyces cerevisiae", 2020, Genetics
  • "FACT and Ash1 promote long-range and bidirectional nucleosome eviction at the HO promoter", 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Genetic analysis argues for a coactivator function for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Tup1 corepressor", 2021, Genetics
  • "Ash1 and Tup1 dependent repression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HO promoter requires activator-dependent nucleosome eviction", 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • "Ash1 and Tup1 Dependent Repression of theSaccharomyces cerevisiae HOpromoter Requires Activator-Dependent Nucleosome Eviction", 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Publication venues frequently featuring Stillman's work include:

  • Genetics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • PLoS Genetics

Frequent collaborators in Stillman's research efforts are:

  • Emily J. Parnell
  • Timothy J. Parnell
  • Yaxin Yu
  • Chao Yan
  • Lu Bai

Best Publications

  • A unified nomenclature for protein subunits of mediator complexes linking transcriptional regulators to RNA polymerase II.

    Henri Marc Bourbon;Andres Aguilera;Aseem Z. Ansari;Francisco J. Asturias

  • Multiple links between the NuA4 histone acetyltransferase complex and epigenetic control of transcription

    Luc Galarneau;Amine Nourani;Alexandre A Boudreault;Yan Zhang

  • Spt16–Pob3 and the HMG protein Nhp6 combine to form the nucleosome‐binding factor SPN

    Tim Formosa;Peter Eriksson;Jacqui Wittmeyer;Jennifer Ginn

  • Yeast global transcriptional regulators Sin4 and Rgr1 are components of mediator complex/RNA polymerase II holoenzyme

    Yang Li;Stefan Bjorklund;Stefan Bjorklund;Yi Wei Jiang;Young Joon Kim

  • Parallel pathways of gene regulation: homologous regulators SWI5 and ACE2 differentially control transcription of HO and chitinase.

    Paul R. Dohrmann;Geraldine Butler;Kathetine Tamai;Scott Dorland

  • Identification of silencer binding proteins from yeast: possible roles in SIR control and DNA replication

    David Shore;David J. Stillman;Andrea H. Brand;Kim A. Nasmyth

  • Defects in SPT16 or POB3 (yFACT) in saccharomyces cerevisiae cause dependence on the Hir/Hpc pathway: Polymerase passage may degrade chromatin structure

    Tim Formosa;Susan Ruone;Melissa D. Adams;Aileen E. Olsen

  • yFACT Induces Global Accessibility of Nucleosomal DNA without H2A-H2B Displacement

    Hua Xin;Shinya Takahata;Mary Blanksma;Laura McCullough

  • Ssn6–Tup1 interacts with class I histone deacetylases required for repression

    Anjanette D. Watson;Diane G. Edmondson;James R. Bone;Yukio Mukai

  • Both positive and negative regulators of HO transcription are required for mother-cell-specific mating-type switching in yeast

    Kim Nasmyth;David Stillman;David Kipling

  • A large protein complex containing the yeast Sin3p and Rpd3p transcriptional regulators.

    Margaret M. Kasten;Scott Dorland;David J. Stillman

  • A member of the gut mycobiota modulates host purine metabolism exacerbating colitis in mice

    Tyson R. Chiaro;Ray Soto;W. Zac Stephens;Jason L. Kubinak

  • Involvement of the SIN4 global transcriptional regulator in the chromatin structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Yi Wei Jiang;David J. Stillman

  • Overlapping roles for the histone acetyltransferase activities of SAGA and elongator in vivo.

    Birgitte Ø. Wittschieben;Jane Fellows;Wendy Du;David J. Stillman

  • The transcription factor Swi5 regulates expression of the cyclin kinase inhibitor p40SIC1.

    Dunja Knapp;Leena Bhoite;David J. Stillman;Kim Nasmyth

  • The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SIN3 gene, a negative regulator of HO, contains four paired amphipathic helix motifs.

    Huaming Wang;Ira Clark;Pamela R. Nicholson;Ira Herskowitz

  • The Swi5 activator recruits the Mediator complex to the HO promoter without RNA polymerase II

    Leena T. Bhoite;Yaxin Yu;David J. Stillman

  • Degradation of the Transcription Factor Gcn4 Requires the Kinase Pho85 and the SCFCDC4 Ubiquitin–Ligase Complex

    Ariella Meimoun;Tsvi Holtzman;Ziva Weissman;Helen J. McBride

  • FACT and Asf1 Regulate Nucleosome Dynamics and Coactivator Binding at the HO Promoter

    Shinya Takahata;Yaxin Yu;David J. Stillman

  • The nuclear actin-related protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Act3p/Arp4, interacts with core histones.

    Masahiko Harata;Yukako Oma;Shigeki Mizuno;Yi Wei Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Formosa
Tim Formosa University of Utah
Kim Nasmyth
Kim Nasmyth University of Oxford
E P Geiduschek
E P Geiduschek University of California, San Diego
Jason Moffat
Jason Moffat University of Toronto
David Shore
David Shore University of Geneva
Rodney Rothstein
Rodney Rothstein Columbia University
William S. Lane
William S. Lane Harvard University
Andrew Thorburn
Andrew Thorburn University of Colorado Denver
Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz University of California, San Francisco
Brenda J. Andrews
Brenda J. Andrews University of Toronto

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