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Overview

Dirk Eick is affiliated with the Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology and Oncology.

The main topics of Dirk Eick's work include:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Cancer-related Molecular Pathways

Recent publications by Dirk Eick include:

  • "RNA polymerase II CTD is dispensable for transcription and required for termination in human cells," published in 2023 in EMBO Reports
  • "H2B Ubiquitylation Acts as a Barrier to Ctk1 Nucleosomal Recruitment Prior to Removal by Ubp8 within a SAGA-Related Complex," published in 2021 in UNC Libraries

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Dirk Eick include:

  • Yousra Yahia
  • Alexia Pigeot
  • Amal Zine El Aabidine
  • Nilay Shah
  • Nezih Karasu

The primary publication venues for Dirk Eick's research are:

  • EMBO Reports
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Mediation of c-Myc-induced apoptosis by p53.

    Heiko Hermeking;Dirk Eick

  • Identification of CDK4 as a target of c-MYC.

    Heiko Hermeking;Carlo Rago;Marino Schuhmacher;Qing Li

  • The RNA Polymerase II Carboxy-Terminal Domain (CTD) Code

    Dirk Eick;Matthias Geyer

  • Chemotherapeutic Drugs Inhibit Ribosome Biogenesis at Various Levels

    Kaspar Burger;Bastian Mühl;Thomas Harasim;Michaela Rohrmoser

  • Transcribing RNA polymerase II is phosphorylated at CTD residue serine-7.

    Rob D. Chapman;Martin Heidemann;Thomas K. Albert;Reinhard Mailhammer

  • Control of cell growth by c-Myc in the absence of cell division

    Marino Schuhmacher;Martin S. Staege;Alexander Pajic;Axel Polack

  • The transcriptional program of a human B cell line in response to Myc

    Marino Schuhmacher;Franz Kohlhuber;Michael Hölzel;Carmen Kaiser

  • The Proto-Oncogene c-myc Is a Direct Target Gene of Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear Antigen 2

    Carmen Kaiser;Gerhard Laux;Dirk Eick;Nicola Jochner

  • Serine-7 of the RNA Polymerase II CTD Is Specifically Required for snRNA Gene Expression

    Sylvain Egloff;Dawn O'Reilly;Dawn O'Reilly;Rob D. Chapman;Rob D. Chapman;Alice Taylor;Alice Taylor

  • Structure and cell cycle-regulated transcription of the human cyclin A gene

    Berthold Henglein;Xavier Chenivesse;Jian Wang;Dirk Eick

  • Transcription initiation platforms and GTF recruitment at tissue-specific enhancers and promoters

    Frederic Koch;Romain Fenouil;Marta Gut;Pierre Cauchy

  • TFIIH kinase places bivalent marks on the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II.

    Md. Sohail Akhtar;Martin Heidemann;Joshua R. Tietjen;David W. Zhang

  • Dynamic phosphorylation patterns of RNA polymerase II CTD during transcription.

    Martin Heidemann;Corinna Hintermair;Kirsten Voß;Dirk Eick

  • Polycomb Associates Genome-wide with a Specific RNA Polymerase II Variant, and Regulates Metabolic Genes in ESCs

    Emily Brookes;Inês de Santiago;Daniel Hebenstreit;Kelly J. Morris

  • Multiple single-stranded cis elements are associated with activated chromatin of the human c-myc gene in vivo.

    G A Michelotti;E F Michelotti;A Pullner;R C Duncan

  • CTD tyrosine phosphorylation impairs termination factor recruitment to RNA polymerase II.

    Andreas Mayer;Martin Heidemann;Michael Lidschreiber;Amelie Schreieck

  • Splicing enhances recruitment of methyltransferase HYPB/Setd2 and methylation of histone H3 Lys36

    Sérgio Fernandes de Almeida;Ana Rita Grosso;Frederic Koch;Romain Fenouil

  • Transcriptional arrest within the first exon is a fast control mechanism in c-myc gene expression

    Dirk Eick;Georg W. Bornkamm

  • The C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II is modified by site-specific methylation.

    Robert J. Sims;Luis Alejandro Rojas;David B. Beck;Roberto Bonasio

  • H2B ubiquitylation acts as a barrier to Ctk1 nucleosomal recruitment prior to removal by Ubp8 within a SAGA-related complex.

    Anastasia Wyce;Tiaojiang Xiao;Kelly A. Whelan;Christine Kosman;Christine Kosman

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg W. Bornkamm
Georg W. Bornkamm Technical University of Munich
Elisabeth Kremmer
Elisabeth Kremmer Max Planck Society
Heiko Hermeking
Heiko Hermeking German Cancer Research Center
Pierre Ferrier
Pierre Ferrier Aix-Marseille University
Ivo Gut
Ivo Gut Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico
Marta Gut
Marta Gut Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico
Axel Imhof
Axel Imhof Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Aseem Z. Ansari
Aseem Z. Ansari University of Wisconsin–Madison
Heinrich Leonhardt
Heinrich Leonhardt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen University of Copenhagen

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