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Xavier Darzacq

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Verified email at berkeley.edu
Cited by 18321

Overcoming the bottleneck to widespread testing: a rapid review of nucleic acid testing approaches for COVID-19 detection

MN Esbin, ON Whitney, S Chong, A Maurer, X Darzacq… - Rna, 2020 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
… of the Tjian and Darzacq laboratory for their reading, insights, and helpful discussions on
this review. We would expressly like to thank the Tjian and Darzacq COVID-19 response team …

Evaluating phase separation in live cells: diagnosis, caveats, and functional consequences

DT McSwiggen, M Mir, X Darzacq… - Genes & …, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
… The x-axis is the number of proteins from the 33 studies that were claimed to display that
evidence. (B) A simulated example of how diffraction-limited fluorescence imaging can obscure …

The transcription factor activity gradient (TAG) model: contemplating a contact-independent mechanism for enhancer–promoter communication

JP Karr, JJ Ferrie, R Tjian, X Darzacq - Genes & Development, 2022 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Darzacq, the members of the Tjian-Darzacq laboratory, and the external reviewers, all of
whom we thank for their time and contributions. This work was supported by National Institutes …

Phase separation drives heterochromatin domain formation

…, AV Emelyanov, M Mir, DV Fyodorov, X Darzacq… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
… A 30 beam square lattice light sheet, with inner and outer numerical apertures of 0.505
and 0.60 respectively, was generated with a 488 nm input laser and dithered in x over a 5 μm …

Imaging dynamic and selective low-complexity domain interactions that control gene transcription

…, C Cattoglio, A Heckert, S Banala, L Lavis, X Darzacq… - Science, 2018 - science.org
… Goodrich, GS Martin, and members of Tjian and Darzacq labs for critical reading of the
manuscript. Funding: This work was supported by California Institute of Regenerative Medicine …

In vivo dynamics of RNA polymerase II transcription

X Darzacq, Y Shav-Tal, V De Turris, Y Brody… - Nature structural & …, 2007 - nature.com
We imaged transcription in living cells using a locus-specific reporter system, which allowed
precise, single-cell kinetic measurements of promoter binding, initiation and elongation. …

[HTML][HTML] Cajal body‐specific small nuclear RNAs: a novel class of 2′‐O‐methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs

X Darzacq, BE Jády, C Verheggen, AM Kiss… - The EMBO …, 2002 - embopress.org
Cajal (coiled) bodies are conserved subnuclear organelles that are present in the nucleoplasm
of both animal and plant cells. Although Cajal bodies were first described nearly 100 …

Real-time dynamics of RNA polymerase II clustering in live human cells

…, C Dugast-Darzacq, B Hajj, M Dahan, X Darzacq - Science, 2013 - science.org
Transcription is reported to be spatially compartmentalized in nuclear transcription factories
with clusters of RNA polymerase II (Pol II). However, little is known about when these foci …

Dynamics of single mRNPs in nuclei of living cells

Y Shav-Tal, X Darzacq, SM Shenoy, D Fusco… - science, 2004 - science.org
Understanding gene expression requires the ability to follow the fate of individual molecules.
Here we use a cellular system for monitoring messenger RNA (mRNA)expression to …

CTCF and cohesin regulate chromatin loop stability with distinct dynamics

AS Hansen, I Pustova, C Cattoglio, R Tjian, X Darzacq - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
… frame and tracking them between frames, we obtaining several estimates of the true x,y
coordinates for each molecule, which improves the localization precision. Moreover, since each …