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Eirikur Steingrimsson

Eirikur Steingrimsson

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
46
Citations
10623
World Ranking
2793
National Ranking
2

Overview

Eirikur Steingrimsson is affiliated with the University of Iceland in Iceland, focusing their research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Sensory Systems, Immunology, and Oncology.

The scientist's research addresses various key topics including melanin and skin pigmentation, RNA regulation and disease, Melanoma and MAPK pathways, Genomics and chromatin dynamics, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, olfactory and sensory function studies, and cutaneous melanoma detection and management.

Steingrimsson has contributed to a number of recent publications, including:

  • MITF reprograms the extracellular matrix and focal adhesion in melanoma, 2021, eLife
  • Tuning Transcription Factor Availability through Acetylation-Mediated Genomic Redistribution, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • Melanoma Risk and Melanocyte Biology, 2020, Acta Dermato Venereologica
  • TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes, 2022, PLoS Genetics
  • Hedgehog signalling in bone and osteoarthritis: the role of Smoothened and cholesterol, 2022, FEBS Journal

Frequent collaborators of Eirikur Steingrimsson include:

  • Ramile Dilshat
  • Colin Kenny
  • Robert A. Cornell
  • Lionel Larue
  • Sara Sigurbjörnsdóttir

Their publications are often found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, eLife, Acta Dermato Venereologica, and Molecular Cell.

Best Publications

  • Mutations at the mouse microphthalmia locus are associated with defects in a gene encoding a novel basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper protein.

    Colin A. Hodgkinson;Karen J. Moore;Atsuo Nakayama;Eiríkur Steingrímsson

  • Melanocytes and the Microphthalmia Transcription Factor Network

    Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Neal G. Copeland;Nancy A. Jenkins

  • microphthalmia, a critical factor in melanocyte development, defines a discrete transcription factor family.

    Timothy J. Hemesath;Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Gaël McGill;Michael J. Hansen

  • Molecular basis of mouse microphthalmia ( mi ) mutations helps explain their developmental and phenotypic consequences

    Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Karen J. Moore;M. Lynn Lamoreux;Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré

  • The Drosophila gene tailless is expressed at the embryonic termini and is a member of the steroid receptor superfamily

    Francesca Pignoni;Richard M. Baldarelli;Eirikur Steingrimsson;Robert J. Diaz

  • Mad3 and Mad4: novel Max-interacting transcriptional repressors that suppress c-myc dependent transformation and are expressed during neural and epidermal differentiation.

    Peter J. Hurlin;Christophe Quéva;Päivi J. Koskinen;Eiríkur Steingrímsson

  • Hxt encodes a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor that regulates trophoblast cell development.

    James C. Cross;Margaret L. Flannery;Michael A. Blanar;Eirikur Steingrimsson

  • Novel MITF Targets Identified Using a Two-Step DNA Microarray Strategy

    Keith S. Hoek;Natalie C. Schlegel;Ossia M. Eichhoff;Daniel S. Widmer

  • Mitf and Tfe3, two members of the Mitf-Tfe family of bHLH-Zip transcription factors, have important but functionally redundant roles in osteoclast development

    Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Lino Tessarollo;Bhavani Pathak;Ling Hou

  • Mga, a dual-specificity transcription factor that interacts with Max and contains a T-domain DNA-binding motif.

    Peter J. Hurlin;Peter J. Hurlin;Eirìkur Steingrìmsson;Neal G. Copeland;Nancy A. Jenkins

  • A Polymorphism in IRF4 Affects Human Pigmentation through a Tyrosinase-Dependent MITF/TFAP2A Pathway

    Christian Praetorius;Christine Grill;Simon N. Stacey;Alexander M. Metcalf

  • The Microphthalmia-Associated Transcription Factor Mitf Interacts with β-Catenin To Determine Target Gene Expression

    Alexander Schepsky;Katja Bruser;Gunnar J. Gunnarsson;Jane Goodall

  • The bHLH-Zip transcription factor Tfeb is essential for placental vascularization

    Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Lino Tessarollo;Susan W. Reid;Nancy A. Jenkins

  • A detailed genome-wide reconstruction of mouse metabolism based on human Recon 1

    Martin I Sigurdsson;Neema Jamshidi;Eirikur Steingrimsson;Ines Thiele

  • Posterior stripe expression of hunchback is driven from two promoters by a common enhancer element.

    Jonathan S. Margolis;Mark L. Borowsky;Eirikur Steingrimsson;Chung Wha Shim

  • Restricted leucine zipper dimerization and specificity of DNA recognition of the melanocyte master regulator MITF

    Vivian Pogenberg;Margrét H Ögmundsdóttir;Kristín Bergsteinsdóttir;Alexander Schepsky

  • MODY in Iceland is associated with mutations in HNF-1alpha and a novel mutation in NeuroD1.

    S. Y. Kristinsson;E. T. Thorolfsdottir;B. Talseth;E. Steingrimsson

  • Meta-analysis of Icelandic and UK data sets identifies missense variants in SMO, IL11, COL11A1 and 13 more new loci associated with osteoarthritis.

    Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Sigrun H. Lund;Sigrun H. Lund;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Florian Zink

  • Altered E-Cadherin Levels and Distribution in Melanocytes Precede Clinical Manifestations of Vitiligo

    Roselyne Y. Wagner;Flavie Luciani;Muriel Cario-André;Alain Rubod

  • Clinical Manifestations of

    F Luciani;M Cario-Andre;A Rubod;V Petit

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy A. Jenkins
Nancy A. Jenkins The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Neal G. Copeland
Neal G. Copeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Lionel Larue
Lionel Larue University of Paris-Saclay
Heinz Arnheiter
Heinz Arnheiter National Institutes of Health
Colin R. Goding
Colin R. Goding University of Oxford
Lars Rönnstrand
Lars Rönnstrand Lund University
Matthias Wilmanns
Matthias Wilmanns Universität Hamburg
Thorunn Rafnar
Thorunn Rafnar deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Lino Tessarollo
Lino Tessarollo National Institutes of Health
David E. Fisher
David E. Fisher Harvard University

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