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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Mitzi I. Kuroda is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a specialized focus on molecular biology as evidenced by a substantial volume of publications in this subfield.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, such as:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Mitzi I. Kuroda has contributed research to several notable journals and publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Genetics
  • Annual Review of Biochemistry
  • Science Advances

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Mitzi I. Kuroda include:

  • Dynamic Competition of Polycomb and Trithorax in Transcriptional Programming, 2020, Annual Review of Biochemistry
  • Variant Polycomb complexes in Drosophila consistent with ancient functional diversity, 2022, Science Advances
  • Integrated loss- and gain-of-function screens define a core network governing human embryonic stem cell behavior, 2021, Genes & Development
  • Chemical Screen Identifies Diverse and Novel Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors as Repressors of NUT Function: Implications for NUT Carcinoma Pathogenesis and Treatment, 2021, Molecular Cancer Research
  • Uncoupling histone modification crosstalk by engineering lysine demethylase LSD1, 2024, Nature Chemical Biology

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Hyuckjoon Kang
  • Barry M. Zee
  • Artyom A. Alekseyenko
  • Heather A. Kang
  • Philip A. Cole

Mitzi I. Kuroda has been recognized with awards such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)

Best Publications

  • Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA

    Amy E. Pasquinelli;Brenda J. Reinhart;Frank Slack;Mark Q. Martindale

  • Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE

    Sushmita Roy;Jason Ernst;Peter V. Kharchenko;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Comprehensive analysis of the chromatin landscape in Drosophila melanogaster

    Peter V. Kharchenko;Artyom A. Alekseyenko;Artyom A. Alekseyenko;Yuri B. Schwartz;Aki Minoda

  • An assessment of histone-modification antibody quality

    Thea A. Egelhofer;Aki Minoda;Aki Minoda;Sarit Klugman;Sarit Klugman;Kyungjoon Lee

  • The genomic binding sites of a noncoding RNA

    Matthew D. Simon;Charlotte I. Wang;Peter V. Kharchenko;Jason A. West

  • Comparative analysis of metazoan chromatin organization

    Joshua Wing Kei Ho;Joshua Wing Kei Ho;Youngsook L. Jung;Tao Liu;Tao Liu;Burak Han Alver

  • Expression of Msl-2 causes assembly of dosage compensation regulators on the X chromosomes and female lethality in Drosophila

    Richard L Kelley;Irina Solovyeva;Laura M Lyman;Ron Richman

  • Acetylated histone H4 on the male X chromosome is associated with dosage compensation in Drosophila.

    J R Bone;J Lavender;R Richman;M J Palmer

  • The maleless protein associates with the X chromosome to regulate dosage compensation in drosophila

    Mitzi I. Kuroda;Maurice J. Kernan;Robert Kreber;Barry Ganetzky

  • Epigenetic spreading of the Drosophila dosage compensation complex from roX RNA genes into flanking chromatin.

    Richard L Kelley;Victoria H Meller;Polina R Gordadze;Gregg Roman

  • roX1 RNA paints the X chromosome of male Drosophila and is regulated by the dosage compensation system.

    Victoria H Meller;Kwok Hang Wu;Gregg Roman;Mitzi I Kuroda

  • Sex lethal controls dosage compensation in Drosophila by a non-splicing mechanism

    Richard L. Kelley;Jiwu Wang;Leslie Bell;Mitzi I. Kuroda

  • A sequence motif within chromatin entry sites directs MSL establishment on the Drosophila X chromosome

    Artyom A. Alekseyenko;Shouyong Peng;Shouyong Peng;Erica Larschan;Erica Larschan;Andrey A. Gorchakov;Andrey A. Gorchakov

  • Drosophila dosage compensation: a complex voyage to the X chromosome.

    Marnie E. Gelbart;Mitzi I. Kuroda

  • Plasticity in patterns of histone modifications and chromosomal proteins in Drosophila heterochromatin

    Nicole C. Riddle;Aki Minoda;Peter V. Kharchenko;Artyom A. Alekseyenko

  • Dosage Compensation in Drosophila

    John C. Lucchesi;Mitzi I. Kuroda

  • MSL complex is attracted to genes marked by H3K36 trimethylation using a sequence-independent mechanism.

    Erica Larschan;Artyom A. Alekseyenko;Artyom A. Alekseyenko;Andrey A. Gortchakov;Andrey A. Gortchakov;Shouyong Peng

  • High-resolution ChIP–chip analysis reveals that the Drosophila MSL complex selectively identifies active genes on the male X chromosome

    Artyom A. Alekseyenko;Erica Larschan;Weil R. Lai;Peter J. Park

  • Ordered assembly of roX RNAs into MSL complexes on the dosage-compensated X chromosome in Drosophila

    V.H. Meller;P.R. Gordadze;Y. Park;X. Chu

  • Drosophila male-specific lethal-2 protein: structure/function analysis and dependence on MSL-1 for chromosome association.

    L. M. Lyman;K. Copps;L. Rastelli;R. L. Kelley

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Park
Peter J. Park Harvard University
Peter V. Kharchenko
Peter V. Kharchenko Harvard University
Gary H. Karpen
Gary H. Karpen University of California, Berkeley
Michael Y. Tolstorukov
Michael Y. Tolstorukov Harvard University
Sarah C. R. Elgin
Sarah C. R. Elgin Washington University in St. Louis
Jason D. Lieb
Jason D. Lieb University of Chicago
Abby F. Dernburg
Abby F. Dernburg University of California, Berkeley
Bradley E. Bernstein
Bradley E. Bernstein Broad Institute
Bing Ren
Bing Ren New York Genome Center

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