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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Tom W. Muir is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with a significant concentration in molecular biology, cell biology, organic chemistry, oncology, and genetics.

Their work spans several key topics within these fields, including:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Click Chemistry and Applications
  • Biotin and Related Studies

Tom W. Muir has contributed to numerous scientific publications in various high-impact journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Chromatin landscape signals differentially dictate the activities of mSWI/SNF family complexes" (2021), published in Science
  • "Oncohistone mutations enhance chromatin remodeling and alter cell fates" (2021), published in Nature Chemical Biology
  • "Tracking chromatin state changes using nanoscale photo-proximity labelling" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Reactive intermediates for interactome mapping" (2021), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Chromatin as a key consumer in the metabolite economy" (2020), published in Nature Chemical Biology

Frequent co-authors in their research include Michelle M. Mitchener, Antony J. Burton, Robert E. Thompson, Xuanjia Ye, and John D. Bagert.

Muir's publications are commonly featured in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • Nature
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist has been recognized by multiple prestigious organizations. Awards include:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2007)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1999)

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of proteins by native chemical ligation

    Stephen B. H. Kent;Tom W. Muir;Philip E. Dawson

  • Expressed protein ligation: A general method for protein engineering

    Tom W. Muir;Dolan Sondhi;Philip A. Cole

  • Inhibition of PRC2 Activity by a Gain-of-Function H3 Mutation Found in Pediatric Glioblastoma

    Peter W. Lewis;Manuel M. Müller;Matthew S. Koletsky;Francisco Cordero

  • How many human proteoforms are there

    Ruedi Aebersold;Jeffrey N. Agar;I. Jonathan Amster;Mark S. Baker

  • Histone H2A deubiquitinase activity of the Polycomb repressive complex PR-DUB

    Johanna C. Scheuermann;Andrés Gaytán de Ayala Alonso;Katarzyna Oktaba;Nga Ly-Hartig

  • Semisynthesis of Proteins by Expressed Protein Ligation

    Thomas William Muir

  • RAD6-Mediated transcription-coupled H2B ubiquitylation directly stimulates H3K4 methylation in human cells.

    Jaehoon Kim;Mohamed Guermah;Robert K. McGinty;Jung Shin Lee

  • Structure-activity analysis of synthetic autoinducing thiolactone peptides from Staphylococcus aureus responsible for virulence

    Patricia Mayville;Guangyong Ji;Ronald Beavis;Hongmei Yang

  • Chemically ubiquitylated histone H2B stimulates hDot1L-mediated intranucleosomal methylation

    Robert K. McGinty;Jaehoon Kim;Champak Chatterjee;Robert G. Roeder

  • The TGF beta receptor activation process: an inhibitor- to substrate-binding switch.

    Morgan Huse;Tom W. Muir;Lan Xu;Ye Guang Chen

  • Histone H2B ubiquitylation disrupts local and higher-order chromatin compaction

    Beat Fierz;Champak Chatterjee;Champak Chatterjee;Robert K McGinty;Maya Bar-Dagan

  • Histone serotonylation is a permissive modification that enhances TFIID binding to H3K4me3

    Lorna A. Farrelly;Robert E. Thompson;Shuai Zhao;Ashley E. Lepack

  • Inteins: nature's gift to protein chemists

    Neel H. Shah;Tom W. Muir

  • Protein ligation: an enabling technology for the biophysical analysis of proteins

    Vasant Muralidharan;Tom W Muir

  • Crystal Structure of a Phosphorylated Smad2: Recognition of Phosphoserine by the MH2 Domain and Insights on Smad Function in TGF-β Signaling

    Jia-Wei Wu;Min Hu;Jijie Chai;Joan Seoane

  • Histone H3K36 mutations promote sarcomagenesis through altered histone methylation landscape

    Chao Lu;Siddhant U. Jain;Dominik Hoelper;Denise Bechet

  • Recognition of a Mononucleosomal Histone Modification Pattern by BPTF via Multivalent Interactions

    Alexander J. Ruthenburg;Haitao Li;Thomas A. Milne;Scott Dewell

  • The expanding landscape of ‘oncohistone’ mutations in human cancers

    Benjamin A. Nacev;Benjamin A. Nacev;Lijuan Feng;John D. Bagert;Agata E. Lemiesz

  • Rational design of a global inhibitor of the virulence response in Staphylococcus aureus, based in part on localization of the site of inhibition to the receptor-histidine kinase, AgrC

    Gholson J. Lyon;Patricia Mayville;Tom W. Muir;Richard P. Novick

  • Exfoliatin-producing strains define a fourth agr specificity group in Staphylococcus aureus.

    S. Jarraud;G. J. Lyon;G. J. Lyon;A. M. S. Figueiredo;G. Lina

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. H. Kent
Stephen B. H. Kent University of Chicago
Richard P. Novick
Richard P. Novick New York University
David Cowburn
David Cowburn Albert Einstein College of Medicine
C. David Allis
C. David Allis Rockefeller University
Philip E. Dawson
Philip E. Dawson Scripps Research Institute
Julio A. Camarero
Julio A. Camarero University of Southern California
Gholson J. Lyon
Gholson J. Lyon Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Benjamin A. Garcia
Benjamin A. Garcia Washington University in St. Louis
Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder Rockefeller University
Brian T. Chait
Brian T. Chait Rockefeller University

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