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Michael P Meers

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Verified email at wustl.edu
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Improved CUT&RUN chromatin profiling tools

MP Meers, TD Bryson, JG Henikoff, S Henikoff - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.46314.001 Previously, we described a novel alternative to chromatin
immunoprecipitation, CUT&RUN, in which unfixed permeabilized cells are incubated with antibody, …

[HTML][HTML] Peak calling by Sparse Enrichment Analysis for CUT&RUN chromatin profiling

MP Meers, D Tenenbaum, S Henikoff - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2019 - Springer
Background CUT&RUN is an efficient epigenome profiling method that identifies sites of
DNA binding protein enrichment genome-wide with high signal to noise and low sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Multifactorial profiling of epigenetic landscapes at single-cell resolution using MulTI-Tag

MP Meers, G Llagas, DH Janssens, CA Codomo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chromatin profiling at locus resolution uncovers gene regulatory features that define cell
types and developmental trajectories, but it remains challenging to map and compare different …

[PDF][PDF] Interrogating the function of metazoan histones using engineered gene clusters

DJ McKay, S Klusza, TJR Penke, MP Meers, KP Curry… - Developmental cell, 2015 - cell.com
Histones and their posttranslational modifications influence the regulation of many DNA-dependent
processes. Although an essential role for histone-modifying enzymes in these …

[PDF][PDF] Pioneer factor-nucleosome binding events during differentiation are motif encoded

MP Meers, DH Janssens, S Henikoff - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Although the in vitro structural and in vivo spatial characteristics of transcription factor (TF)
binding are well defined, TF interactions with chromatin and other companion TFs during …

[HTML][HTML] CUT&Tag2for1: a modified method for simultaneous profiling of the accessible and silenced regulome in single cells

DH Janssens, DJ Otto, MP Meers, M Setty, K Ahmad… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Cleavage Under Targets and Tagmentation (CUT&Tag) is an antibody-directed transposase
tethering strategy for in situ chromatin profiling in small samples and single cells. We …

[HTML][HTML] MYCN amplification and ATRX mutations are incompatible in neuroblastoma

…, P Vogel, S Lee, A Shelat, JF Sarthy, MP Meers… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Aggressive cancers often have activating mutations in growth-controlling oncogenes and
inactivating mutations in tumor-suppressor genes. In neuroblastoma, amplification of the …

Old cogs, new tricks: the evolution of gene expression in a chromatin context

PB Talbert, MP Meers, S Henikoff - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Sophisticated gene-regulatory mechanisms probably evolved in prokaryotes billions of years
before the emergence of modern eukaryotes, which inherited the same basic enzymatic …

Poly (A) RNA‐binding proteins and polyadenosine RNA: new members and novel functions

CP Wigington, KR Williams, MP Meers… - Wiley …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Poly(A) RNA ‐binding proteins (Pabs) bind with high affinity and specificity to polyadenosine
RNA . Textbook models show a nuclear Pab, PABPN1 , and a cytoplasmic Pab, PABPC , …

[HTML][HTML] Selective androgen receptor modulators activate the canonical prostate cancer androgen receptor program and repress cancer growth

…, A Corella, IM Coleman, MP Meers… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Prostate cancer (PC) is driven by androgen receptor (AR) activity, a master regulator of
prostate development and homeostasis. Frontline therapies for metastatic PC deprive the AR of …