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Overview

Stefan Dimitrov is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular concentration on Molecular Biology and related subfields including Plant Science, Genetics, Oncology, and Hematology. The scientist's scholarly work spans diverse topics such as Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA modifications and cancer, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, DNA Repair Mechanisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and RNA Research and Splicing.

Among their recent publications are several papers that highlight aspects of chromatin biology and nucleosome structure. These include:

  • MeCP2 is a microsatellite binding protein that protects CA repeats from nucleosome invasion, 2021, Science
  • Phase-plate cryo-EM structure of the Widom 601 CENP-A nucleosome core particle reveals differential flexibility of the DNA ends, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Unraveling linker histone interactions in nucleosomes, 2021, Current Opinion in Structural Biology
  • H2A.Z is dispensable for both basal and activated transcription in post-mitotic mouse muscles, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • CpG Islands Shape the Epigenome Landscape, 2020, Journal of Molecular Biology

Stefan Dimitrov collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Ali Hamiche, Ramachandran Boopathi, Seyit Kale, Jan Bednář, and Christophe Papin. These collaborations contribute across multiple scientific publications.

Their work has been featured prominently in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for Dimitrov's research include:

  • Nucleic Acids Research (4 publications)
  • Current Opinion in Structural Biology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Molecular Biology (2 publications)
  • Science (1 publication)
  • Trends in Biochemical Sciences (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Histone H3 phosphorylation and cell division.

    Fabienne Hans;Stefan Dimitrov

  • Phosphorylation of serine 10 in histone H3, what for?

    Claude Prigent;Stefan Dimitrov

  • Higher-order structure of chromatin and chromosomes

    Christopher L Woodcock;Stefan Dimitrov

  • A unified phylogeny-based nomenclature for histone variants

    Paul B Talbert;Kami Ahmad;Geneviève Almouzni;Juan Ausió

  • The Histone Variant MacroH2A Interferes with Transcription Factor Binding and SWI/SNF Nucleosome Remodeling

    Dimitar Angelov;Annie Molla;Pierre-Yves Perche;Fabienne Hans

  • Specific regulation of Xenopus chromosomal 5S rRNA gene transcription in vivo by histone H1.

    Philippe Bouvet;Stefan Dimitrov;Alan P. Wolffe

  • Nucleolin is a histone chaperone with FACT-like activity and assists remodeling of nucleosomes

    Dimitar Angelov;Vladimir A Bondarenko;Sébastien Almagro;Hervé Menoni

  • Structure and Dynamics of a 197 bp Nucleosome in Complex with Linker Histone H1

    Jan Bednar;Isabel Garcia-Saez;Ramachandran Boopathi;Amber R. Cutter

  • Histone acetylation: influence on transcription, nucleosome mobility and positioning, and linker histone-dependent transcriptional repression.

    Kiyoe Ura;Hitoshi Kurumizaka;Stefan Dimitrov;Geneviève Almouzni

  • ANP32E is a histone chaperone that removes H2A.Z from chromatin

    Arnaud Obri;Khalid Ouararhni;Christophe Papin;Marie Laure Diebold

  • Single-base resolution mapping of H1–nucleosome interactions and 3D organization of the nucleosome

    Sajad Hussain Syed;Damien Goutte-Gattat;Nils Becker;Sam Meyer

  • Chromatin transitions during early Xenopus embryogenesis: changes in histone H4 acetylation and in linker histone type.

    Stefan Dimitrov;Geneviève Almouzni;Mary Dasso;Alan P. Wolffe

  • HJURP binds CENP-A via a highly conserved N-terminal domain and mediates its deposition at centromeres

    Muhammad Shuaib;Khalid Ouararhni;Stefan Dimitrov;Ali Hamiche

  • The histone variant mH2A1.1 interferes with transcription by down-regulating PARP-1 enzymatic activity

    Khalid Ouararhni;Réda Hadj-Slimane;Slimane Ait-Si-Ali;Philippe Robin

  • Evidence for a shared structural role for HMG1 and linker histones B4 and H1 in organizing chromatin.

    K. Nightingale;S. Dimitrov;R. Reeves;A. P. Wolffe

  • What do linker histones do in chromatin

    Alan P. Wolffe;Saadi Khochbin;Stefan Dimitrov

  • Persistent Interactions of Core Histone Tails with Nucleosomal DNA following Acetylation and Transcription Factor Binding

    Vesco Mutskov;Delphine Gerber;Dimitri Angelov;Juan Ausio

  • Mechanism of Polymerase II Transcription Repression by the Histone Variant macroH2A

    Cécile Marie Doyen;Cécile Marie Doyen;Woojin An;Dimitar Angelov;Vladimir Bondarenko

  • Remodeling somatic nuclei in Xenopus laevis egg extracts: molecular mechanisms for the selective release of histones H1 and H1(0) from chromatin and the acquisition of transcriptional competence.

    S. Dimitrov;A. P. Wolffe

  • Histone variant H2ABbd confers lower stability to the nucleosome.

    Thierry Gautier;D Wade Abbott;Annie Molla;Andre Verdel

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Bouvet
Philippe Bouvet École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Saadi Khochbin
Saadi Khochbin Grenoble Alpes University
Tapas K. Kundu
Tapas K. Kundu Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Jeffrey J. Hayes
Jeffrey J. Hayes University of Rochester Medical Center
Andrew Travers
Andrew Travers MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Robert L. Margolis
Robert L. Margolis Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Juan Ausió
Juan Ausió University of Victoria
Jean Cadet
Jean Cadet Université de Sherbrooke
Jacques Samarut
Jacques Samarut École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Martha L. Bulyk
Martha L. Bulyk Harvard University

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