Publications

Marayati BF, Tucker JF, Cerda DA, Hou TC, Chen R, Sugiyama T, Pease JB, Zhang K. The Catalytic-Dependent and -Independent Roles of Lsd1 and Lsd2 Lysine Demethylases in Heterochromatin Formation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Cells. 2020 Apr 13;9(4). doi: 10.3390/cells9040955. PubMed PMID: 32295063; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7226997

Marayati, BF, Pease, JB, Zhang, K 2019. A deep-sequencing-assisted, spontaneous suppressor screen in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. J Vis Exp. 2019 Mar 7;(145). doi: 10.3791/59133 [pubMed]

Marayati BF, Drayton AL, Tucker JF, Huckabee RH, Anderson AM, Pease JB, Zeyl CW, Zhang K. 2018. Loss of Elongation-Like Factor 1 Spontaneously Induces Diverse, RNase H-Related Suppressor Mutations in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics. 2018 Aug;209(4):967-981.

BF Marayati, V Hoskins, RW Boger, JF Tucker, ES Fishman, AS Bray, K Zhang. 2016 The fission yeast MTREC and EJC orthologs ensure the maturation of meiotic transcripts during meiosis. RNA doi:10.1261/rna.055608.115 [pubMed]

JF Tucker, C Ohle, G Schermann, K Bendrin, W Zhang, T Fischer, K Zhang. 2016. A novel epigenetic silencing pathway involving the highly conserved 5’-3’ exoribonuclease Dhp1/Rat1/Xrn2 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. PLoS Genet 12(2):e1005873. [pubMed]

M Zofall, S Yamanaka, FE Reyes-Turcu,K Zhang, C Rubin, SI Grewal. 2013. RNA elimination machinery targeting meiotic mRNAs promotes facultative heterochromatin formation. Science 335:96-100 [pubMed Abstract]

K Zhang, T Fischer, RL Porter, J Dhakshnamoorthy, M Zofall, M Zhou, TD Veenstra, SI Grewal. 2011.  Clr4/Suv39 and RNA quality control factors cooperate to trigger RNAi and suppress antisense RNA. Science331: 1624-1627 [pubMed Abstract]

FE Reyes-Turcu*, K Zhang*, M Zofall, E Chen, SI Grewal.  2011. Defects in RNA quality control machinery promote RNAi-independent heterochromatin formation. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 18:1132-1138.  *These authors contributed equally to this work [pubMed Abstract]

M Zofall, T Fischer, K Zhang, M Zhou, B Cui, TD Veenstra and SI Grewal. 2009. Histone H2A.Z cooperates with RNAi and heterochromatin factors to suppress antisense RNAs. Nature461:419-422 [pubMed Abstract]

A Roguev, S Bandyopadhyay, M Zofall, K Zhang, TFischer, SR Collins, H Qu, M Shales, HO Park, J Hayles, KL Hoe, DU Kim, T Ideker, SI Grewal, JS Weissman and NJ Krogan. 2008. Conservation and rewiring of functional modules revealed by an epistasis map in fission yeast. Science 322: 405-410 [pubMed Abstract]

K Zhang, K Mosch, W Fischle and SI Grewal. 2008. Roles of the Clr4 methyltransferase complex in nucleation, spreading and maintenance of heterochromatin. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 15:381-388 [pubMed Abstract]

ES Chen, K Zhang, ENicolas, HP Cam, M Zofall, SI Grewal. 2008. Cell cycle control of centromeric repeat transcription and heterochromatin assembly. Nature 451:734-737 [pubMed Abstract]

YE Leem, TL Ripmaster, FD Kelly, H Ebina, ME Heincelman, K Zhang, SI Grewal. CS Hoffman,  HL Levin. 2008. Retrotransposon Tf1 is targeted to Pol II promoters by transcription activators. Molecular Cell30:98-107 [pubMed Abstract]

K Zhang, W Lin, JA Latham, GM Riefler, JM Schumacher, C Chan, T Tatchell, D Hawke, R Kobayashi, and SYR Dent. 2005. The Set1 methyltransferase opposes Ipl1 Aurora kinase functions in chromosome segregation. Cell 122: 723-734 [pubMed Abstract]

K Zhang, SYRDent. 2005. Histone modifying enzymes and cancer: going beyond histones. Journal of Cell Biochemistry. 96:1137-1148.

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