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Mitzi Kuroda

Harvard Medical School
Verified email at genetics.med.harvard.edu
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Dynamic competition of polycomb and trithorax in transcriptional programming

MI Kuroda, H Kang, S De… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Predicting regulatory potential from primary DNA sequences or transcription factor binding
patterns is not possible. However, the annotation of the genome by chromatin proteins, …

Global regulation of X chromosomal genes by the MSL complex in Drosophila melanogaster

…, PJ Park, PR Gordadze, MI Kuroda - Genes & …, 2005 - genesdev.cshlp.org
A long-standing model postulates that X-chromosome dosage compensation in Drosophila
occurs by twofold up-regulation of the single male X, but previous data cannot exclude an …

Drosophila dosage compensation: a complex voyage to the X chromosome

ME Gelbart, MI Kuroda - 2009 - journals.biologists.com
Dosage compensation is the crucial process that equalizes gene expression from the X
chromosome between males (XY) and females (XX). In Drosophila, the male-specific lethal (MSL…

A sequence motif within chromatin entry sites directs MSL establishment on the Drosophila X chromosome

…, SD McGrath, CI Wang, ER Mardis, PJ Park, MI Kuroda - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
The Drosophila MSL complex associates with active genes specifically on the male X chromosome
to acetylate histone H4 at lysine 16 and increase expression approximately 2-fold. To …

Expression of msl-2 causes assembly of dosage compensation regulators on the X chromosomes and female lethality in Drosophila

…, LM Lyman, R Richman, V Solovyev, MI Kuroda - Cell, 1995 - cell.com
Male-specific lethal-2 (msl-2) is a RING finger protein that is required for X chromosome
dosage compensation in Drosophila males. Consistent with the formation of a dosage …

The maleless protein associates with the X chromosome to regulate dosage compensation in Drosophila

MI Kuroda, MJ Kernan, R Kreber, B Ganetzky… - Cell, 1991 - cell.com
The maleless (m/e) gene is one of four known regulatory loci required for increased transcription
(dosage compensation) of X-linked genes in D. melanogaster males. A predicted m/e …

Sex lethal controls dosage compensation in Drosophila by a non-splicing mechanism

RL Kelley, J Wang, L Bell, MI Kuroda - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Dosage compensation in Drosophila requires the male-specific lethal (msl) proteins (MSL)
to make gene expression from the single male X chromosome equivalent to that from both …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic spreading of the Drosophila dosage compensation complex from roX RNA genes into flanking chromatin

…, PR Gordadze, G Roman, RL Davis, MI Kuroda - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
The multisubunit MSL dosage compensation complex binds to hundreds of sites along the
Drosophila single male X chromosome, mediating its hypertranscription. The male X …

MSL complex is attracted to genes marked by H3K36 trimethylation using a sequence-independent mechanism

…, B Li, P Yang, JL Workman, PJ Park, MI Kuroda - Molecular cell, 2007 - cell.com
In Drosophila, X chromosome dosage compensation requires the male-specific lethal (MSL)
complex, which associates with actively transcribed genes on the single male X …

Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA

…, BJ Reinhart, F Slack, MQ Martindale, MI Kuroda… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Two small RNAs regulate the timing of Caenorhabditis elegans development 1 , 2 . Transition
from the first to the second larval stage fates requires the 22-nucleotide lin-4 RNA 1 , 3 , 4 , …