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42
Citations
6838
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19487
National Ranking
7945

Overview

F. Jeffrey Dilworth is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 56 publications, and Medicine, with 23 publications. The subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Surgery, Physiology, and Immunology.

The scientist's main topics of research cover diverse areas within muscle biology and molecular genetics. Key topics include Muscle Physiology and Disorders, RNA Research and Splicing, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA modifications and cancer, Mesenchymal stem cell research, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism.

Frequent publication venues where Dilworth's work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Cells
  • Developmental Cell

Among recent significant papers are:

  • JMJD3 activated hyaluronan synthesis drives muscle regeneration in an inflammatory environment, 2022, Science
  • Epigenetic regulation of satellite cell fate during skeletal muscle regeneration, 2021, Skeletal Muscle
  • A fast Myosin super enhancer dictates muscle fiber phenotype through competitive interactions with Myosin genes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Dysregulated expression of monoacylglycerol lipase is a marker for anti-diabetic drug metformin-targeted therapy to correct impaired neurogenesis and spatial memory in Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Theranostics
  • HIRA stabilizes skeletal muscle lineage identity, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating on Dilworth's research include:

  • Kiran Nakka
  • Hina Bandukwala
  • Bénédicte Chazaud
  • Sarah Hachmer
  • Marjorie Brand

Best Publications

  • cDNA Cloning of Human Retinoic Acid-metabolizing Enzyme (hP450RAI) Identifies a Novel Family of Cytochromes P450 (CYP26) *

    Jay A. White;Barbara Beckett-Jones;Yu-Ding Guo;F. Jeffrey Dilworth

  • Pax7 activates myogenic genes by recruitment of a histone methyltransferase complex

    Iain W McKinnell;Jeff Ishibashi;Fabien Le Grand;Vincent G J Punch

  • The RNA Helicases p68/p72 and the Noncoding RNA SRA Are Coregulators of MyoD and Skeletal Muscle Differentiation

    Giuseppina Caretti;R. Louis Schiltz;F. Jeffrey Dilworth;Monica Di Padova

  • Caspase 3/caspase-activated DNase promote cell differentiation by inducing DNA strand breaks

    Brian D. Larsen;Shravanti Rampalli;Leanne E. Burns;Steve Brunette

  • PARP-1 Determines Specificity in a Retinoid Signaling Pathway via Direct Modulation of Mediator

    Rushad Pavri;Brian Lewis;Tae Kyung Kim;F. Jeffrey Dilworth

  • UV-damaged DNA-binding protein in the TFTC complex links DNA damage recognition to nucleosome acetylation

    Marjorie Brand;Jonathan G. Moggs;Mustapha Oulad-Abdelghani;Fabrice Lejeune

  • ATP-Driven Chromatin Remodeling Activity and Histone Acetyltransferases Act Sequentially during Transactivation by RAR/RXR In Vitro

    F.Jeffrey Dilworth;Catherine Fromental-Ramain;Ken Yamamoto;Pierre Chambon

  • UTX mediates demethylation of H3K27me3 at muscle-specific genes during myogenesis

    Shayesta Seenundun;Shravanti Rampalli;Qi-Cai Liu;Arif Aziz

  • p38 MAPK signaling regulates recruitment of Ash2L-containing methyltransferase complexes to specific genes during differentiation

    Shravanti Rampalli;LiFang Li;Esther Mak;Kai Ge

  • A MyoD-generated feed-forward circuit temporally patterns gene expression during skeletal muscle differentiation

    Bennett H. Penn;Donald A. Bergstrom;Donald A. Bergstrom;F. Jeffrey Dilworth;Eyal Bengal

  • Signal-dependent incorporation of MyoD-BAF60c into Brg1-based SWI/SNF chromatin-remodelling complex.

    Sonia Vanina Forcales;Sonia Albini;Lorenzo Giordani;Barbora Malecová

  • Constitutive heterochromatin reorganization during somatic cell reprogramming

    Eden Fussner;Ugljesa Djuric;Mike Strauss;Akitsu Hotta

  • Differential modulation of cell cycle progression distinguishes members of the myogenic regulatory factor family of transcription factors

    Kulwant Singh;F. Jeffrey Dilworth;F. Jeffrey Dilworth

  • Differential genomic targeting of the transcription factor TAL1 in alternate haematopoietic lineages

    Carmen G Palii;Carolina Perez-Iratxeta;Zizhen Yao;Yi Cao

  • Activator-Mediated Recruitment of the MLL2 Methyltransferase Complex to the β-Globin Locus

    Celina Demers;Chandra Prakash Chaturvedi;Jeffrey A. Ranish;Gaetan Juban

  • Tissue-specific splicing of a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor is essential for muscle differentiation

    Soji Sebastian;Hervé Faralli;Zizhen Yao;Patricia Rakopoulos;Patricia Rakopoulos

  • Dual role for the methyltransferase G9a in the maintenance of β-globin gene transcription in adult erythroid cells

    Chandra-Prakash Chaturvedi;Alison M. Hosey;Carmen Palii;Carolina Perez-Iratxeta

  • Analysis of epigenetic modifications of chromatin at specific gene loci by native chromatin immunoprecipitation of nucleosomes isolated using hydroxyapatite chromatography

    Marjorie Brand;Shravanti Rampalli;Chandra-Prakash Chaturvedi;F Jeffrey Dilworth

  • Regulating a master regulator: establishing tissue-specific gene expression in skeletal muscle.

    Arif Aziz;Qi-Cai Liu;F Jeffrey Dilworth

  • UTX inhibition as selective epigenetic therapy against TAL1-driven T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Aissa Benyoucef;Aissa Benyoucef;Aissa Benyoucef;Carmen G. Palii;Carmen G. Palii;Chaochen Wang;Christopher J. Porter

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Tapscott
Stephen J. Tapscott Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Michael A. Rudnicki
Michael A. Rudnicki Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
William L. Stanford
William L. Stanford Ottawa Hospital
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves Pompeu Fabra University
Kai Ge
Kai Ge National Institutes of Health
Zizhen Yao
Zizhen Yao Allen Institute for Brain Science
James Ellis
James Ellis University of Toronto
Robin J. Parks
Robin J. Parks Ottawa Hospital

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