Min-Hao Kuo Recent Publications

Jianjun Luo, Xinjing Xu, Hana Hall, Edel M. Hyland, Jef D. Boeke, Tony Hazbun, and Min-Hao Kuo (2009). Histone H3 exerts key function in mitotic checkpoint control. Molecular and Cellular Biology (accepted).

Liu, Y., X. Xu, and M.-H. Kuo. 2009. Snf1p regulates Gcn5p transcriptional coactivator function by antagonizing Spt3p. Genetics 2009 Oct 19. [Epub ahead of print].

Kuo, M. H., X. J. Xu, H. A. Bolck, and D. Guo. 2009. Functional connection between histone acetyltransferase Gcn5p and methyltransferase Hmt1p. Biochim Biophys Acta 1789:395-402. Link to pdf

Luo, J., and M. H. Kuo. 2009. Linking nutrient metabolism to epigenetics. Cell Science Reviews 6:49-54. Link to pdf

Lee DY, Northrop JP, Kuo MH, Stallcup MR. Histone H3 lysine 9 methyltransferase G9a is a transcriptional coactivator for nuclear receptors. J Biol Chem. 2006 Mar 31;281(13):8476-85. Link to pdf

Liu, Y, Xu, X-J, Singh-Rodriguez, S, Zhao, Y, and Kuo, M-H. (2005) A histone H3 phosphorylation-independent function of Snf1 and Reg1 proteins rescues a gcn5- mutant in HIS3 expression. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25(23):10566-79. Link to pdf

Acharya, A, Xu, X-J, Husain-Ponnampalam RD, Hoffmann-Benning S, and Kuo, M-H. (2005) Production of Constitutively Acetylated Recombinant p53 from Yeast and E. coli by Tethered Catalysis. Protein Exp. Purif. 41:417-425 Link to pdf

Guo, D., Hazbun, T., Xu, X., Ng, S-L., Fields, S., and Kuo, M-H. (2004). A tethered catalysis two-hybrid system to identify protein-protein interactions requiring post-translational modifications. Nature Biotechnology (22)888-892. Link to article and sequences

Kuo, M-H. (2001). Tackling the chromatin dynamics: use of antibodies against acetylated histones and other vibrant chromatin features. ChemTracks. Sept;14(10)539-556.

Kuo, M-H; vom-Baur,-E; Struhl,-K; Allis,-C-D. (2000). Gcn4 activator targets Gcn5 histone acetyltransferase to specific promoters independently of transcription. Mol-Cell. Dec; 6(6): 1309-20.

Broday, L., W. Peng, M-H. Kuo, K. Salnikow, M. Zoroddu, and M. Costa. (2000) Nickel compounds are novel inhibitors of histone H4 acetylation. Can. Res. 60:238-241.

Kuo, M-H. and C.D. Allis (1999). Formaldehyde fixation and immunoprecipitation to study chromatin structure and dynamics. Method 19:425-433.

Tanner, K.G., R.C. Trievel, M.-H. Kuo, R.M. Howard, S.L. Berger, C.D. Allis, R. Marmostein, J.M. Denu (1999). Catalytic mechanism and function of invariant glutamic acid 173 from the histone acetyltransferase GCN5 transcriptional coactivator. J. Biol. Chem. 274:18157-18160.

Krebs, J.E., M.-H. Kuo, C.D. Allis, C.L. Peterson (1999). Cell cycle-regulated histone acetylation required form expression of the yeast HO gene. Genes Dev. 13:1412-1421.

Kuo, M.-H., J. Zhou, P. Jambeck, M. Churchill, and C.D. Allis (1998). Histone acetyltransferase activity of yeast Gcn5p is required for the activation of target genes in vivo. Genes Dev. 12:627-639.

Kuo, M.-H. and C.D. Allis (1998). Roles of histone acetyltransferases and deacetylases in gene regulation. BioEssays 20:615-626.

Mizzen, C.A., M.-H. Kuo, E.R. Smith, J.E. Brownell, J. Zhou, R. Ohba, Y. Wei, L. Monaco, P. Sassone-Corsi, and C.D. Allis (1998). Signaling to chromatin through histone modification: how clear is the signal? Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 63:469-481.

Kuo, M.-H., E.T. Nadeau, and E.J. Grayhack (1997). Phosphorylation of S. cerevisiae MCM1 protein, an SRF homolog, is in a domain involved in response to salt stress. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17:819-832.

Kuo, M.-H., J.E. Brownell, R.E. Sobel, T.A. Ranalli, R.G. Cook, D.G. Edmondson, S.Y. Roth, and C.D. Allis (1996). Transcription-linked acetylation by Gcn5p of histone H3 and H4 at specific lysines. Nature 383:269-272.

Kuo, M.-H., and E.J. Grayhack (1994). A library of yeast genomic MCM1 binding sites contains genes involved in cell cycle control, cell wall and membrane structure, and metabolism. Mol. Cell. Biol. 14:348-359.

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