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Michael P. Washburn

Michael P. Washburn

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
94
Citations
44700
World Ranking
644
National Ranking
353

Overview

Michael P. Washburn is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Medicine. The subfields of study they contribute to include Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Washburn has contributed extensively to topics such as RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, cancer-related gene regulation, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, and interferon and immune responses.

The scientist's recent published papers include:

  • Dynamic RNA acetylation revealed by quantitative cross-evolutionary mapping, 2020, Nature
  • Merkel cell polyomavirus activates LSD1-mediated blockade of non-canonical BAF to regulate transformation and tumorigenesis, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • The methyltransferase SETD2 couples transcription and splicing by engaging mRNA processing factors through its SHI domain, 2021, Nature Communications
  • STRIPAK directs PP2A activity toward MAP4K4 to promote oncogenic transformation of human cells, 2020, eLife
  • Integrative Modeling of a Sin3/HDAC Complex Sub-structure, 2020, Cell Reports

Frequent collaborators in Washburn's research include Laurence Florens, Jerry L. Workman, Michaella J. Levy, Mihaela E. Sardiu, and Charles A.S. Banks.

Washburn's work has appeared often in several key venues, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, eLife, Nature Communications, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to journal articles, Washburn has contributed to book publications, with one known book titled Recentering the Self, published by the State University of New York Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Large-scale analysis of the yeast proteome by multidimensional protein identification technology.

    Michael P. Washburn;Dirk Wolters;John R. Yates;John R. Yates

  • An Automated Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology for Shotgun Proteomics

    Dirk A. Wolters;Michael P. Washburn;John R. Yates

  • The CRAPome: a contaminant repository for affinity purification–mass spectrometry data

    Dattatreya Mellacheruvu;Zachary Wright;Amber L. Couzens;Jean Philippe Lambert

  • A proteomic view of the Plasmodium falciparum life cycle

    Laurence Florens;Michael P. Washburn;J. Dale Raine;Robert M. Anthony

  • Histone H3 methylation by Set2 directs deacetylation of coding regions by Rpd3S to suppress spurious intragenic transcription.

    Michael J. Carrozza;Bing Li;Laurence Florens;Tamaki Suganuma

  • Vpx relieves inhibition of HIV-1 infection of macrophages mediated by the SAMHD1 protein

    Kasia Hrecka;Caili Hao;Magda Gierszewska;Selene K. Swanson

  • Statistical analysis of membrane proteome expression changes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Boris Zybailov;Amber L. Mosley;Mihaela E. Sardiu;Michael K. Coleman

  • Acetylation by Tip60 Is Required for Selective Histone Variant Exchange at DNA Lesions

    Thomas Kusch;Laurence Florens;W. Hayes MacDonald;Selene K. Swanson

  • Shotgun identification of protein modifications from protein complexes and lens tissue

    Michael J. MacCoss;W. Hayes McDonald;Anita Saraf;Rovshan Sadygov

  • AFF4, a Component of the ELL/P-TEFb Elongation Complex and a Shared Subunit of MLL Chimeras, Can Link Transcription Elongation to Leukemia

    Chengqi Lin;Edwin R. Smith;Hidehisa Takahashi;Ka Chun Lai

  • Quantitative proteomic analysis of distinct mammalian Mediator complexes using normalized spectral abundance factors.

    Andrew C. Paoletti;Tari J. Parmely;Chieri Tomomori-Sato;Shigeo Sato

  • Analysis of quantitative proteomic data generated via multidimensional protein identification technology.

    Michael P. Washburn;Ryan Ulaszek;Cosmin Deciu;and David M. Schieltz

  • Proteomic survey of metabolic pathways in rice

    Antonius Koller;Michael P. Washburn;B. Markus Lange;Nancy L. Andon

  • Histone Crosstalk between H2B Monoubiquitination and H3 Methylation Mediated by COMPASS

    Jung Shin Lee;Abhijit Shukla;Jessica Schneider;Selene K. Swanson

  • Protein pathway and complex clustering of correlated mRNA and protein expression analyses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Michael P. Washburn;Antonius Koller;Guy Oshiro;Ryan R. Ulaszek

  • Refinements to label free proteome quantitation: how to deal with peptides shared by multiple proteins.

    Ying Zhang;Zhihui Wen;Michael P. Washburn;Laurence Florens

  • Evolutionarily Conserved Multisubunit RBL2/p130 and E2F4 Protein Complex Represses Human Cell Cycle-Dependent Genes in Quiescence

    Larisa Litovchick;Subhashini Sadasivam;Laurence Florens;Xiaopeng Zhu

  • Correlation of Relative Abundance Ratios Derived from Peptide Ion Chromatograms and Spectrum Counting for Quantitative Proteomic Analysis Using Stable Isotope Labeling

    Boris Zybailov;Michael K. Coleman;and Laurence Florens;Michael P. Washburn

  • Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation directs recruitment and activation of an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler.

    Aaron J. Gottschalk;Gyula Timinszky;Stephanie E. Kong;Jingji Jin

  • Cyclin F-Mediated Degradation of Ribonucleotide Reductase M2 Controls Genome Integrity and DNA Repair

    Vincenzo D'Angiolella;Valerio Donato;Frances M. Forrester;Yeon-Tae Jeong

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Florens
Laurence Florens Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Selene K. Swanson
Selene K. Swanson Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Joan Weliky Conaway
Joan Weliky Conaway The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jerry L. Workman
Jerry L. Workman Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Ronald C. Conaway
Ronald C. Conaway The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Susan M. Abmayr
Susan M. Abmayr Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Ali Shilatifard
Ali Shilatifard Northwestern University
Michele Pagano
Michele Pagano New York University
James A. DeCaprio
James A. DeCaprio Harvard University
Arcady Mushegian
Arcady Mushegian National Science Foundation

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