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Courtney Smith

Pennsylvania State UniversityORCID 0000-0002-9262-8772Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:ChIP-seq· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Organism:human· 1

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Cohesin Facilitates Nucleosome Invasion by Transcription Factors

Shane D Stoeber, Hengye Chen, Ruo-Wen Chen, Courtney Smith, Samuel Becker, Sarah Vinson, Michael Guy Poirier, Lu Bai

The paper shows that cohesin facilitates nucleosome invasion by transcription factors, even in the absence of chromatin remodeling or replication.

Science Advances · Aug 5, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Human CCR4-NOT globally regulates gene expression and is a novel silencer of retrotransposon activation

Shardul D. Kulkarni, Alexis Morrissey, Aswathy Sebastian, Belinda M. Giardine, Courtney Smith, Oluwasegun T. Akinniyi, Cheryl A. Keller, Alexei Arnaoutov, Istvan U. Albert, Shaun Mahony, Joseph C. Reese

The paper shows that CCR4-NOT regulates gene expression and suppresses retrotransposon activation by modulating RNA decay and KZNF gene expression.

bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2024 · PreprintMolecular Biology