Publications (co-)authored by Benjamin Donovan while in the Biophysics program

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).