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Michael Bustin is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, contributing to a total of 26 publications in these areas. The subfields of study that feature prominently in their work include Molecular Biology, Immunology, Rheumatology, Physiology, and Hematology.

The topics covered in Bustin's research span various aspects of genomic regulation and molecular mechanisms. Key subjects include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, Protein Degradation and Inhibitors, Ubiquitin and Proteasome Pathways, Bone and Dental Protein Studies, and Cancer-related Gene Regulation.

Their recent scientific papers cover a range of related topics and have been published in multiple reputable journals:

  • Suppressing the intestinal farnesoid X receptor/sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 3 axis decreases atherosclerosis, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Chromatin accessibility promotes hematopoietic and leukemia stem cell activity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Biological Functions of HMGN Chromosomal Proteins, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Selective inhibition of cancer cell self-renewal through a Quisinostat-histone H1.0 axis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • H3K27ac nucleosomes facilitate HMGN localization at regulatory sites to modulate chromatin binding of transcription factors, 2022, Communications Biology

Michael Bustin frequently collaborates with several other scientists. Notable co-authors include:

  • Takashi Furusawa
  • Ravikanth Nanduri
  • Alexei Lobanov
  • Bing He
  • Shaofei Zhang

The main venues that have published Bustin's work are Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Investigation, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Communications Biology, and Epigenetics & Chromatin. Among these, Nature Communications has featured their research most frequently.

Best Publications

  • DNA damage activates p53 through a phosphorylation–acetylation cascade

    Kazuyasu Sakaguchi;Julio E. Herrera;Shin’ichi Saito;Toru Miki

  • Regulation of DNA-dependent activities by the functional motifs of the high-mobility-group chromosomal proteins.

    Michael Bustin

  • High-Mobility-Group Chromosomal Proteins: Architectural Components That Facilitate Chromatin Function

    Michael Bustin;Raymond Reeves

  • Inflammation-promoting activity of HMGB1 on human microvascular endothelial cells

    Carmen Fiuza;Michael Bustin;Shefali Talwar;Margaret Tropea

  • Dynamic binding of histone H1 to chromatin in living cells

    Tom Misteli;Akash Gunjan;Robert Hock;Michael Bustin

  • Structural features of the HMG chromosomal proteins and their genes.

    Michael Bustin;Donald A. Lehn;David Landsman

  • Revised nomenclature for high mobility group (HMG) chromosomal proteins.

    Michael Bustin

  • Global Nature of Dynamic Protein-Chromatin Interactions In Vivo: Three-Dimensional Genome Scanning and Dynamic Interaction Networks of Chromatin Proteins

    Robert D. Phair;Paola Scaffidi;Cem Elbi;Jaromíra Vecerová

  • High mobility group box-1 protein induces the migration and activation of human dendritic cells and acts as an alarmin.

    De Yang;Qian Chen;Huan Yang;Kevin J. Tracey

  • The role of DNA methylation in setting up chromatin structure during development.

    Tamar Hashimshony;Jianmin Zhang;Ilana Keshet;Michael Bustin

  • High mobility group protein-1 (HMG-1) is a unique activator of p53

    Lata Jayaraman;Narayani Chandra Moorthy;Kanneganti G.K. Murthy;James L. Manley

  • HMG chromosomal proteins in development and disease.

    Robert Hock;Takashi Furusawa;Tetsuya Ueda;Michael Bustin

  • A signature for the HMG-1 box DNA-binding proteins

    David Landsman;Michael Bustin

  • Network of dynamic interactions between histone H1 and high-mobility-group proteins in chromatin.

    Frédéric Catez;Huan Yang;Kevin J. Tracey;Raymond Reeves

  • Species and Organ Specificity in Very Lysine-rich Histones

    M Bustin;R D Cole

  • The intracellular distribution and function of the high mobility group chromosomal proteins.

    Leo Einck;Michael Bustin

  • The transcriptionally-active MMTV promoter is depleted of histone H1

    Emery H. Bresnick;Michael Bustin;Veronique Marsaud;Helene Richard-Foy

  • The dynamics of histone H1 function in chromatin.

    Michael Bustin;Frédéric Catez;Jae-Hwan Lim

  • Chromatin unfolding and activation by HMGN* chromosomal proteins

    Michael Bustin

  • Determinants of histone H1 mobility and chromatin binding in living cells

    Frédéric Catez;Tetsuya Ueda;Michael Bustin

Frequent Co-Authors

David Landsman
David Landsman National Institutes of Health
De Yang
De Yang National Cancer Research Institute, UK
David Pellman
David Pellman Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Helmut Fuchs
Helmut Fuchs Helmholtz Zentrum München
Valerie Gailus-Durner
Valerie Gailus-Durner Helmholtz Zentrum München
Kenneth H. Kraemer
Kenneth H. Kraemer National Institutes of Health
Tom Misteli
Tom Misteli National Institutes of Health
Ulrich Scheer
Ulrich Scheer University of Würzburg
Michael M. Seidman
Michael M. Seidman National Institutes of Health
Joost J. Oppenheim
Joost J. Oppenheim National Institutes of Health

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