Publications (co-)authored by Michael Poirier with students in the Biophysics program

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Golbarg M Roozbahani, P L Colosi, Attila Oravecz, Elena M Sorokina, Wolfgang Pfeifer, Siamak Shokri, Yin Wei, Pascal Didier, Marcello DeLuca, Gaurav Arya, László Tora, Melike Lakadamyali, Michael G Poirier, and Carlos E Castro
"Piggybacking functionalized DNA nanostructures into live-cell nuclei."
Sci Adv 10, eadn9423 (2024).

[2] 

Prerna Kabtiyal, Ariel Robbins, Elizabeth Jergens, Carlos E Castro, Jessica O Winter, Michael G Poirier, and Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin
"Localized Plasmonic Heating for Single-Molecule DNA Rupture Measurements in Optical Tweezers."
Nano Lett 24, 3097-3103 (2024).

[3] 

Ariel Robbins, Hazen Hildebolt, Michael Neuhoff, Peter Beshay, Jessica O Winter, Carlos E Castro, Ralf Bundschuh, and Michael G Poirier
"Cooperative control of a DNA origami force sensor."
Sci Rep 14, 4132 (2024).

[4] 

Elizabeth Jergens, Silvio de Araujo Fernandes-Junior, Yixiao Cui, Ariel Robbins, Carlos E Castro, Michael G Poirier, Metin N Gurcan, Jose J Otero, and Jessica O Winter
"DNA-caged nanoparticles "
Nanoscale 15, 9390-9402 (2023).

[5] 

Benjamin T Donovan, Hengye Chen, Priit Eek, Zhiyuan Meng, Caroline Jipa, Song Tan, Lu Bai, and Michael G Poirier
"Basic helix-loop-helix pioneer factors interact with the histone octamer to invade nucleosomes and generate nucleosome-depleted regions."
Mol Cell 83, 1251-1263.e6 (2023).

[6] 

Benjamin T Donovan, Yi Luo, Zhiyuan Meng, and Michael G Poirier
"The nucleosome unwrapping free energy landscape defines distinct regions of transcription factor accessibility and kinetics."
Nucleic Acids Res 51, 1139-1153 (2023).

[7] 

Ehsan Akbari, Melika Shahhosseini, Ariel Robbins, Michael G Poirier, Jonathan W Song, and Carlos E Castro
"Low cost and massively parallel force spectroscopy with fluid loading on a chip."
Nat Commun 13, 6800 (2022).

[8] 

Nathaniel L Burge, Jenna L Thuma, Ziyong Z Hong, Kevin B Jamison, Jennifer J Ottesen, and Michael G Poirier
"H1.0 C Terminal Domain Is Integral for Altering Transcription Factor Binding within Nucleosomes."
Biochemistry 61, 625-638 (2022).

[9] 

Enrique Lin-Shiao, Wolfgang G Pfeifer, Brian R Shy, Mohammad Saffari Doost, Evelyn Chen, Vivasvan S Vykunta, Jennifer R Hamilton, Elizabeth C Stahl, Diana M Lopez, Cindy R Sandoval Espinoza, Alexander E Deyanov, Rachel J Lew, Michael G Poirer, Alexander Marson, Carlos E Castro, and Jennifer A Doudna
"CRISPR-Cas9-mediated nuclear transport and genomic integration of nanostructured genes in human primary cells."
Nucleic Acids Res 50, 1256-1268 (2022).

[10] 

Dengke Zhao, Jenny V Le, Michael A Darcy, Kyle Crocker, Michael G Poirier, Carlos Castro, and Ralf Bundschuh
"Quantitative Modeling of Nucleosome Unwrapping from Both Ends."
Biophys. J. 117, S0006-34951930880-X (2019).

[11] 

Matthew Brehove, Elan Shatoff, Benjamin T Donovan, Caroline M Jipa, Ralf Bundschuh, and Michael G Poirier
"DNA sequence influences hexasome orientation to regulate DNA accessibility."
Nucleic Acids Res. 47, 5617-5633 (2019).

[12] 

Benjamin T Donovan, Anh Huynh, David A Ball, Heta P Patel, Michael G Poirier, Daniel R Larson, Matthew L Ferguson, and Tineke L Lenstra
"Live-cell imaging reveals the interplay between transcription factors, nucleosomes, and bursting."
EMBO J. 38, e100809 (2019).

[13] 

Benjamin T Donovan, Hengye Chen, Caroline Jipa, Lu Bai, and Michael G Poirier
"Dissociation rate compensation mechanism for budding yeast pioneer transcription factors."
Elife 8, e43008 (2019).

[14] 

Jenny V Le, Yi Luo, Michael A Darcy, Christopher R Lucas, Michelle F Goodwin, Michael G Poirier, and Carlos E Castro
"Probing Nucleosome Stability with a DNA Origami Nanocaliper."
ACS Nano 10, 7073-84 (2016).

[15] 

M D Gibson, M Brehove, Y Luo, J North, and M G Poirier
"Methods for Investigating DNA Accessibility with Single Nucleosomes."
Meth. Enzymol. 581, 379-415 (2016).

[16] 

Matthew Brehove, Tao Wang, Justin North, Yi Luo, Sarah J Dreher, John C Shimko, Jennifer J Ottesen, Karolin Luger, and Michael G Poirier
"Histone Core Phosphorylation Regulates DNA Accessibility."
J. Biol. Chem. 290, 22612-21 (2015).

[17] 

Morgan Bernier, Yi Luo, Kingsley C Nwokelo, Michelle Goodwin, Sarah J Dreher, Pei Zhang, Mark R Parthun, Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, Jennifer J Ottesen, and Michael G Poirier
"Linker histone H1 and H3K56 acetylation are antagonistic regulators of nucleosome dynamics."
Nat Commun 6, 10152 (2015).

[18] 

Yi Luo, Justin A North, and Michael G Poirier
"Single molecule fluorescence methodologies for investigating transcription factor binding kinetics to nucleosomes and DNA."
Methods 70, 108-18 (2014).

[19] 

Yi Luo, Justin A North, Sean D Rose, and Michael G Poirier
"Nucleosomes accelerate transcription factor dissociation."
Nucleic Acids Res. 42, 3017-27 (2014).

[20] 

Yu Kay Law, Robert A Forties, Xin Liu, Michael G Poirier, and Bern Kohler
"Sequence-dependent thymine dimer formation and photoreversal rates in double-stranded DNA."
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 12, 1431-9 (2013).

[21] 

Marek Simon, Justin A North, John C Shimko, Robert A Forties, Michelle B Ferdinand, Mridula Manohar, Meng Zhang, Richard Fishel, Jennifer J Ottesen, and Michael G Poirier
"Histone fold modifications control nucleosome unwrapping and disassembly."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 12711-6 (2011).