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Overview

Suhua Feng is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research focuses on areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Plant Science and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including Aging, Ecology, and Computer Networks and Communications, though the primary concentration remains on plant-related molecular biology.

Key research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Steven E. Jacobsen
  • Zhenhui Zhong
  • Ming Wang
  • James A. Wohlschlegel
  • Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi

The scientist publishes widely in several journals, with repeated contributions to the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Plants
  • PLoS Genetics

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, RNA processing, and gene silencing mechanisms in plants. Selected recent papers include:

  • "DNA methylation-linked chromatin accessibility affects genomic architecture in Arabidopsis", 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Efficient and accurate determination of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana with enzymatic methyl sequencing", 2020, published in Epigenetics & Chromatin
  • "The histone variant H2A.W and linker histone H1 co-regulate heterochromatin accessibility and DNA methylation", 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Mechanism of siRNA production by a plant Dicer-RNA complex in dicing-competent conformation", 2021, published in Science
  • "MBD5 and MBD6 couple DNA methylation to gene silencing through the J-domain protein SILENZIO", 2021, published in Science

Best Publications

  • Shotgun bisulphite sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome reveals DNA methylation patterning

    Shawn J. Cokus;Suhua Feng;Xiaoyu Zhang;Zugen Chen

  • Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

    Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus;Xiaoyu Zhang;Pao Yang Chen

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in plant and animal development.

    Suhua Feng;Steven E. Jacobsen;Wolf Reik

  • Coordinated regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana development by light and gibberellins

    Suhua Feng;Cristina Martinez;Giuliana Gusmaroli;Yu Wang

  • Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by Aid deficiency

    Christian Popp;Wendy Dean;Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus

  • Relationship between nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation.

    Ramakrishna K. Chodavarapu;Suhua Feng;Yana V. Bernatavichute;Pao Yang Chen

  • Comprehensive Analysis of Silencing Mutants Reveals Complex Regulation of the Arabidopsis Methylome

    Hume Stroud;Maxim V.C. Greenberg;Suhua Feng;Yana V. Bernatavichute

  • Non-CG methylation patterns shape the epigenetic landscape in Arabidopsis.

    Hume Stroud;Truman Do;Jiamu Du;Xuehua Zhong

  • Dual Binding of Chromomethylase Domains to H3K9me2-containing Nucleosomes Directs DNA Methylation in Plants

    Jiamu Du;Xuehua Zhong;Yana V. Bernatavichute;Hume Stroud

  • 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine is associated with enhancers and gene bodies in human embryonic stem cells

    Hume Stroud;Suhua Feng;Shannon Morey Kinney;Sriharsa Pradhan

  • Molecular Chaperone Hsp90 Associates with Resistance Protein N and Its Signaling Proteins SGT1 and Rar1 to Modulate an Innate Immune Response in Plants

    Yule Liu;Tessa Burch-Smith;Michael Schiff;Suhua Feng

  • Polymerase IV occupancy at RNA-directed DNA methylation sites requires SHH1

    Julie A. Law;Jiamu Du;Christopher J. Hale;Suhua Feng

  • DNA methylation dynamics, metabolic fluxes, gene splicing, and alternative phenotypes in honey bees

    Sylvain Foret;Robert Kucharski;Matteo Pellegrini;Suhua Feng

  • Genome-wide Hi-C Analyses in Wild-Type and Mutants Reveal High-Resolution Chromatin Interactions in Arabidopsis

    Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus;Veit Schubert;Jixian Zhai

  • SRA- and SET-domain-containing proteins link RNA polymerase V occupancy to DNA methylation

    Lianna M. Johnson;Jiamu Du;Christopher J. Hale;Sylvain Bischof

  • MORC Family ATPases Required for Heterochromatin Condensation and Gene Silencing

    Guillaume Moissiard;Shawn J. Cokus;Joshua Cary;Suhua Feng

  • ATXR5 and ATXR6 are H3K27 monomethyltransferases required for chromatin structure and gene silencing.

    Yannick Jacob;Suhua Feng;Chantal A LeBlanc;Yana V Bernatavichute

  • The Histone Variant H2A.W Defines Heterochromatin and Promotes Chromatin Condensation in Arabidopsis

    Ramesh Yelagandula;Hume Stroud;Sarah Holec;Keda Zhou

  • Molecular Mechanism of Action of Plant DRM De Novo DNA Methyltransferases

    Xuehua Zhong;Jiamu Du;Christopher J. Hale;Javier Gallego-Bartolome

  • A One Precursor One siRNA Model for Pol IV-Dependent siRNA Biogenesis.

    Jixian Zhai;Sylvain Bischof;Haifeng Wang;Suhua Feng

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven E. Jacobsen
Steven E. Jacobsen University of California, Los Angeles
Matteo Pellegrini
Matteo Pellegrini University of California, Los Angeles
James A. Wohlschlegel
James A. Wohlschlegel University of California, Los Angeles
Jixian Zhai
Jixian Zhai Southern University of Science and Technology
Dinshaw J. Patel
Dinshaw J. Patel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ajay A. Vashisht
Ajay A. Vashisht University of California, Los Angeles
Sriharsa Pradhan
Sriharsa Pradhan New England Biolabs
Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Scott D. Michaels
Scott D. Michaels Indiana University
Blake C. Meyers
Blake C. Meyers University of California, Davis

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