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Leah J. Connor

Yale University

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Assay:ChIP-seq· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Histone H4 acetyl-methyllysine marks accessible chromatin that resists compaction

Andreas P. Pintado-Urbanc, Charlie L Brown, Leah J. Connor, Joshua T Young, Yeil Kim, Elizabeth M. Black, Lilian Kabeche, Matthew D. Simon

The paper identifies Kacme as a histone modification marking accessible chromatin that resists compaction, particularly at regulatory regions and insulator elements.

bioRxiv · Apr 21, 2026 · PreprintMolecular Biology

E-box independent chromatin recruitment turns MYOD into a transcriptional repressor

Chiara Nicoletti, Jimmy Massenet, Andreas P. Pintado-Urbanc, Leah J. Connor, Monica M Nicolau, Swetha Sundar, Mingzhi Xu, Anthony D. Schmitt, Wenxin Zhang, Zesen Fang, Tsz Ching Chan, Stephen J. Tapscott, Tom H. Cheung, Matthew D. Simon, Luca Caputo, Prem Puri

This paper identifies a new function of MYOD as a transcriptional repressor through E-box-independent chromatin binding, revealing a mechanism to repress gene expression and maintain cell identity during myogenesis.

bioRxiv · Dec 5, 2024 · PreprintMolecular Biology