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Molecular Biology, Epigenetics, Histone, Cancer, Copper

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University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

2015 to present | Chair, Department of Biological Chemistry
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Siavash Kurdistani

University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

2014 to present | Professor (Biological Chemistry)
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University of California Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Gene Regulation Program Area: Los Angeles, CA, US

2011 to present | Director
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UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program: Los Angeles, CA, US

2013 to 2015 | Co-Director
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Siavash Kurdistani

University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

2010 to 2013 | Associate Professor (Biological Chemistry)
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Siavash Kurdistani

University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

2004 to 2010 | Assistant Professor (Biological Chemistry)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of California Los Angeles: Los Angeles, CA, US

2000 to 2004 | Postdoc (Biological Chemistry)
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Siavash Kurdistani

Harvard Medical School: Boston, MA, US

1994 to 1999 | M.D., Medicine
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University of California Los Angeles: Los Angeles, CA, US

1991 to 1994 | B.S., Biochemistry
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Works (48)

Metabolic sinkholes: Histones as methyl repositories

PLOS Biology
2023-10-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Ansar Karimian; Maria Vogelauer; Siavash K. Kurdistani
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Zinc is Essential for the Copper Reductase Activity of Yeast Nucleosomes

2023-09-14 | Preprint
Contributors: Maria Vogelauer; Chen Cheng; Ansar Karimian; Hooman Golshan Iranpour; Siavash K. Kurdistani
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A pathogenic role for histone H3 copper reductase activity in a yeast model of Friedreich’s ataxia

Science Advances
2021-12-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Oscar A. Campos; Narsis Attar; Chen Cheng; Maria Vogelauer; Nathan V. Mallipeddi; Stefan Schmollinger; Nedas Matulionis; Heather R. Christofk; Sabeeha S. Merchant; Siavash K. Kurdistani
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A pathogenic role for histone H3 copper reductase activity in a yeast model of Friedreich’s Ataxia

2021-06-14 | Other
Contributors: Oscar A. Campos; Narsis Attar; Nathan V. Mallipeddi; Chen Cheng; Maria Vogelauer; Stefan Schmollinger; Sabeeha S. Merchant; Siavash K. Kurdistani
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MCT1 Modulates Cancer Cell Pyruvate Export and Growth of Tumors that Co-express MCT1 and MCT4

Cell Reports
2016-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Candice Sun Hong; Nicholas A. Graham; Wen Gu; Carolina Espindola Camacho; Vei Mah; Erin L. Maresh; Mohammed Alavi; Lora Bagryanova; Pascal A.L. Krotee; Brian K. Gardner et al.
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EP400 Deposits H3.3 into Promoters and Enhancers during Gene Activation

Molecular Cell
2016-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Suman K. Pradhan; Trent Su; Linda Yen; Karine Jacquet; Chengyang Huang; Jacques Côté; Siavash K. Kurdistani; Michael F. Carey
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The Ino80 complex prevents invasion of euchromatin into silent chromatin

Genes Dev.
2015-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Yong Xue; Christopher Van; Suman K. Pradhan; Trent Su; Jason Gehrke; Benjamin G. Kuryan; Tasuku Kitada; Ajay Vashisht; Nancy Tran; James Wohlschlegel et al.
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Scl binds to primed enhancers in mesoderm to regulate hematopoietic and cardiac fate divergence

The EMBO Journal
2015-01-06 | Journal article
Contributors: T. Org; D. Duan; R. Ferrari; A. Montel-Hagen; B. Van Handel; M. A. Kerenyi; R. Sasidharan; L. Rubbi; Y. Fujiwara; M. Pellegrini et al.
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Adenovirus Small E1A Employs the Lysine Acetylases p300/CBP and Tumor Suppressor Rb to Repress Select Host Genes and Promote Productive Virus Infection

Cell Host & Microbe
2014-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberto Ferrari; Dawei Gou; Gauri Jawdekar; Sarah A. Johnson; Miguel Nava; Trent Su; Ahmed F. Yousef; Nathan R. Zemke; Matteo Pellegrini; Siavash K. Kurdistani et al.
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Chromatin: a capacitor of acetate for integrated regulation of gene expression and cell physiology

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
2014-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Siavash K Kurdistani
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Evolution of histone 2A for chromatin compaction in eukaryotes

eLife
2014-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Benjamin R Macadangdang; Amit Oberai; Tanya Spektor; Oscar A Campos; Fang Sheng; Michael F Carey; Maria Vogelauer; Siavash K Kurdistani
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Adenovirus E4ORF1-Induced MYC Activation Promotes Host Cell Anabolic Glucose Metabolism and Virus Replication

Cell Metabolism
2014-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Minh Thai; Nicholas A. Graham; Daniel Braas; Michael Nehil; Evangelia Komisopoulou; Siavash K. Kurdistani; Frank McCormick; Thomas G. Graeber; Heather R. Christofk
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A unique epigenetic signature is associated with active DNA replication loci in human embryonic stem cells

Epigenetics
2013-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Bing Li; Trent Su; Roberto Ferrari; Jing-Yu Li; Siavash K Kurdistani
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CTIP2 is a negative regulator of P-TEFb

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2013-07 | Journal article
Contributors: T. Cherrier; V. Le Douce; S. Eilebrecht; R. Riclet; C. Marban; F. Dequiedt; Y. Goumon; J.-C. Paillart; M. Mericskay; A. Parlakian et al.
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EGFR Mutation-Induced Alternative Splicing of Max Contributes to Growth of Glycolytic Tumors in Brain Cancer

Cell Metabolism
2013-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Ivan Babic; Erik S. Anderson; Kazuhiro Tanaka; Deliang Guo; Kenta Masui; Bing Li; Shaojun Zhu; Yuchao Gu; Genaro R. Villa; David Akhavan et al.
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Histone Acetylation Regulates Intracellular pH

Molecular Cell
2013-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthew A. McBrian; Iman Saramipoor Behbahan; Roberto Ferrari; Trent Su; Ta-Wei Huang; Kunwu Li; Candice S. Hong; Heather R. Christofk; Maria Vogelauer; David B. Seligson et al.
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Enhancer dysfunction: how the main regulators of gene expression contribute to cancer

Genome Biology
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Siavash K Kurdistani
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Mediator and SAGA Have Distinct Roles in Pol II Preinitiation Complex Assembly and Function

Cell Reports
2012-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiao-Fen Chen; Lynn Lehmann; Justin J. Lin; Ajay Vashisht; Ryan Schmidt; Roberto Ferrari; Chengyang Huang; Robin McKee; Amber Mosley; Kathrin Plath et al.
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Dynamic Distribution of Linker Histone H1.5 in Cellular Differentiation

PLoS Genet
2012-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Jing-Yu Li; Michaela Patterson; Hanna K. A. Mikkola; William E. Lowry; Siavash K. Kurdistani; Hiten D. Madhani
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Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) Disassembles RNA Polymerase II Preinitiation Complexes

Journal of Biological Chemistry
2012-08 | Journal article
Contributors: L. Lehmann; R. Ferrari; A. A. Vashisht; J. A. Wohlschlegel; S. K. Kurdistani; M. Carey
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Stimulation of Histone Deacetylase Activity by Metabolites of Intermediary Metabolism

Journal of Biological Chemistry
2012-07 | Journal article
Contributors: M. Vogelauer; A. S. Krall; M. A. McBrian; J.-Y. Li; S. K. Kurdistani
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Reorganization of the host epigenome by a viral oncogene

Genome Research
2012-04 | Journal article
Contributors: R. Ferrari; T. Su; B. Li; G. Bonora; A. Oberai; Y. Chan; R. Sasidharan; A. J. Berk; M. Pellegrini; S. K. Kurdistani
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The Rpd3 Core Complex Is a Chromatin Stabilization Module

Current Biology
2012-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiao-Fen Chen; Benjamin Kuryan; Tasuku Kitada; Nancy Tran; Jing-Yu Li; Siavash Kurdistani; Michael Grunstein; Bing Li; Michael Carey
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Genome-Wide Binding Map of the HIV-1 Tat Protein to the Human Genome

PLoS ONE
2011-11-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Céline Marban; Trent Su; Roberto Ferrari; Bing Li; Dimitrios Vatakis; Matteo Pellegrini; Jerome A. Zack; Olivier Rohr; Siavash K. Kurdistani; John J. Rossi
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Histone Modifications in Cancer Biology and Prognosis

Epigenetics and Disease
2010-09-03 | Other
Contributors: Siavash K. Kurdistani
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Cellular Histone Modification Patterns Predict Prognosis and Treatment Response in Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Results From RTOG 9704

Journal of Clinical Oncology
2010-02-08 | Journal article
Contributors: A. Manuyakorn; R. Paulus; J. Farrell; N. A. Dawson; S. Tze; G. Cheung-Lau; O. J. Hines; H. Reber; D. B. Seligson; S. Horvath et al.
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Global Levels of Histone Modifications Predict Prognosis in Different Cancers

The American Journal of Pathology
2009-05 | Journal article
Contributors: David B. Seligson; Steve Horvath; Matthew A. McBrian; Vei Mah; Hong Yu; Sheila Tze; Qun Wang; David Chia; Lee Goodglick; Siavash K. Kurdistani
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Viral manipulation of the host epigenome for oncogenic transformation

Nat Rev Genet
2009-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberto Ferrari; Arnold J. Berk; Siavash K. Kurdistani
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Mef2C is a lineage-restricted target of Scl/Tal1 and regulates megakaryopoiesis and B-cell homeostasis

Blood
2009-02-11 | Journal article
Contributors: C. Gekas; K. E. Rhodes; L. M. Gereige; H. Helgadottir; R. Ferrari; S. K. Kurdistani; E. Montecino-Rodriguez; R. Bassel-Duby; E. Olson; A. V. Krivtsov et al.
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Adenovirus Small e1a Alters Global Patterns of Histone Modification

Science
2008-08 | Journal article
Contributors: G. A. Horwitz; K. Zhang; M. A. McBrian; M. Grunstein; S. K. Kurdistani; A. J. Berk
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Epigenetic Reprogramming by Adenovirus e1a

Science
2008-08 | Journal article
Contributors: R. Ferrari; M. Pellegrini; G. A. Horwitz; W. Xie; A. J. Berk; S. K. Kurdistani
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Regulators of Cellular Levels of Histone Acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics
2008-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: W. Peng; C. Togawa; K. Zhang; S. K. Kurdistani
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Modeling the regulatory network of histone acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Mol Syst Biol
2007 | Journal article
Contributors: Hung Pham; Roberto Ferrari; Shawn J Cokus; Siavash K Kurdistani; Matteo Pellegrini
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Histone modifications as markers of cancer prognosis: a cellular view

Br J Cancer
2007-06 | Journal article
Contributors: S K Kurdistani
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Cotranscriptional Set2 Methylation of Histone H3 Lysine 36 Recruits a Repressive Rpd3 Complex

Cell
2005-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Michael-Christopher Keogh; Siavash K. Kurdistani; Stephanie A. Morris; Seong Hoon Ahn; Vladimir Podolny; Sean R. Collins; Maya Schuldiner; Kayu Chin; Thanuja Punna; Natalie J. Thompson et al.
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Global histone modification patterns predict risk of prostate cancer recurrence

Nature
2005-06 | Journal article
Contributors: David B. Seligson; Steve Horvath; Tao Shi; Hong Yu; Sheila Tze; Michael Grunstein; Siavash K. Kurdistani
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Function of Drg1/Rit42 in p53-dependent Mitotic Spindle Checkpoint

Journal of Biological Chemistry
2004-07-09 | Journal article
Contributors: K.-t. Kim; P. P. Ongusaha; Y.-K. Hong; S. K. Kurdistani; M. Nakamura; K. P. Lu; S. W. Lee
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Mapping Global Histone Acetylation Patterns to Gene Expression

Cell
2004-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Siavash K Kurdistani; Saeed Tavazoie; Michael Grunstein
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Acetylation of Yeast Histone H4 Lysine 16: A Switch for Protein Interactions in Heterochromatin and Euchromatin

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
2004-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: C.B. MILLAR; S.K. KURDISTANI; M. GRUNSTEIN
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Analysis of Genome-Wide Histone Acetylation State and Enzyme Binding Using DNA Microarrays

Chromatin and Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes, Part B
2003 | Other
Contributors: Daniel Robyr; Siavash K Kurdistani; Michael Grunstein
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In vivo protein–protein and protein–DNA crosslinking for genomewide binding microarray

Methods
2003-09 | Journal article
Contributors: S Kurdistani
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Histone acetylation and deacetylation in yeast

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol
2003-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Siavash K. Kurdistani; Michael Grunstein
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Requirement of Hos2 Histone Deacetylase for Gene Activity in Yeast

Science
2002-11 | Journal article
Contributors: A. Wang
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Genome-wide binding map of the histone deacetylase Rpd3 in yeast

Nat. Genet.
2002-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Siavash K. Kurdistani; Daniel Robyr; Saeed Tavazoie; Michael Grunstein
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Microarray Deacetylation Maps Determine Genome-Wide Functions for Yeast Histone Deacetylases

Cell
2002-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Robyr; Yuko Suka; Ioannis Xenarios; Siavash K. Kurdistani; Amy Wang; Noriyuki Suka; Michael Grunstein
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Altered Regulation of Cyclin G in Human Breast Cancer and Its Specific Localization at Replication Foci in Response to DNA Damage in p53+/+ Cells

Journal of Biological Chemistry
1999-04 | Journal article
Contributors: C. L. Reimer; A. M. Borras; S. K. Kurdistani; J. R. Garreau; M. Chung; S. A. Aaronson; S. W. Lee
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Comparisons of activation energies for dimethyl sulfoxide rotations in the inner phase of seven carcerands

J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.
1995 | Journal article
Contributors: Siavash K. Kurdistani; Timothy A. Robbins; Donald J. Cram
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Stepwise Shell Closures Provide Hosts That Expose or Protect Guests from Outer-Phase Reactants

J. Am. Chem. Soc.
1995-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Siavash K. Kurdistani; Roger C. Helgeson; Donald J. Cram
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