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Zhe Sun

Chinese Academy of SciencesORCID 0000-0002-0634-7983Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Zhe Sun2 papers · University of Missouri

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Organism:E. coli· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1

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Mikhail KashleviD· 2 shared Cédric CaglieroiD· 1 shared Ding Jun Jin· 1 shared Guozhong Huang· 1 shared Kevin S. FrancoiD· 1 shared Shuang WangiD· 1 shared Thomas Dana SchneideriD· 1 shared Y. ZuoiD· 1 shared

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Nascent RNA profiling reveals regulation of gene transcription through productive reiterative initiation in bacteria

Zhe Sun, Guozhong Huang, Yuqiong Zhang, Shuang Wang, Mikhail Kashlev

The paper develops 5TNET-seq to study productive reiterative initiation in E. coli, finding it occurs in over 51% of promoters and is influenced by specific promoter regions and trinucleotide sequences.

Nucleic Acids Research · Nov 17, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Escherichia coli σ38 promoters use two UP elements instead of a -35 element: resolution of a paradoxand discovery that σ38 transcribes ribosomal promoters

Kevin S. Franco, Zhe Sun, Yixiong Chen, Cédric Cagliero, Y. Zuo, Yan Ning Zhou, Mikhail Kashlev, Ding Jun Jin, Thomas Dana Schneider

The paper resolves a long-standing paradox about σ38 promoters in E. coli by showing they use two UP elements instead of a -35 element and transcribe ribosomal promoters.

bioRxiv · Feb 5, 2020 · PreprintMolecular Biology