Mark Ptashne

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms(86), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics(75), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology(68), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions(64), Fungal and yeast genetics research(39)

Publications255 total

OCT4 and SOX2 Work as Transcriptional Activators in Reprogramming Human Fibroblasts
Cell Reports·2017· 50 citedOpen Access
Polycomb Responds to Low Levels of Transcription
Cell Reports·2017· 20 citedOpen Access
Fusion of Escherichia coli lacZ to the cytochrome c gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (lacZ gene fusion/in vitro recombination/yeast transformation/CYCi gene/yeast promoter)
2016
Cooperative DNA binding of the yeast transcriptional activator GAL4 (upstream activating sequence/GAL/in vivo "footprinting")
2016
Nucleosome Avidities and Transcriptional Silencing in Yeast
Current Biology·2015· 17 citedOpen Access
Francois Jacob 1920–2013
Research in Microbiology·2014· 3 cited
The Chemistry of Regulation of Genes and Other Things
Journal of Biological Chemistry·2014· 46 citedOpen Access
Regulation of a Mammalian Gene Bearing a CpG Island Promoter and a Distal Enhancer
Cell Reports·2013· 16 citedOpen Access
Francois Jacob (1920-2013)
Cell·2013· 3 citedOpen Access
Epigenetics: Core misconcept
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2013· 211 citedOpen Access
Faddish Stuff: Epigenetics and the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
The FASEB Journal·2013· 60 cited
Transcriptional Activation by Oct4 Is Sufficient for the Maintenance and Induction of Pluripotency
Cell Reports·2012· 73 citedOpen Access
Nucleosomes and the accessibility problem
Trends in Genetics·2011· 46 cited
Principles of a switch
Nature Chemical Biology·2011· 66 cited
Horace Judson (1931–2011)
PLoS Biology·2011Open Access
An effect of DNA sequence on nucleosome occupancy and removal
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology·2011· 46 citedOpen Access
Proteolytic Instability and the Action of Nonclassical Transcriptional Activators
Current Biology·2010· 25 citedOpen Access
A RSC/Nucleosome Complex Determines Chromatin Architecture and Facilitates Activator Binding
Cell·2010· 175 cited
Issues raised by use of ethnic-group names in genome study: Schuster and colleagues reply
Nature·2010Open Access
Questions over the scientific basis of epigenome project
Nature·2010· 17 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Michael Carey(6), Jun Ma(5), Barbara J Meyer(5), Edward Giniger(4), Russell Maurer(4), Robert T. Sauer(4), Ivan Sadowski(3), Alexander Gann(3), Roger Brent(3), Grace Gill(3), Stephen C. Harrison(3), Alexander D. Johnson(3), Young-Sun Lin(3), Michael R. Green(3), Andrea Jeffrey(2), Carl O. Pabo(2), Ann Hochschild(2), Keith Backman(2), Robert W. West(2), R. Rogers Yocum(2)