Publication List
Pfister, S.,
Rea, S., Taipale M., Mendrzyk, F., Straub, B., Ittrich, C., Thuerigen, O., Sinn, H.P., Lichter, P. and Akhtar, A. (2007): The histone acetyltransferase hMOF is frequently downregulated in primary breast carcinoma and medulloblastoma and constitutes a biomarker for clinical outcome in medulloblastoma.
Int J. Cancer 122(6):1207-13
Rea, S., Xouri, G., Akhtar, A., (2007): Males absent on the first (MOF): from flies to humans.
Oncogene 26 (37), 5385-94.
Kubicek, S., O' Sullivan, R.J., August, E.M., Hickey, E.R., Zhang, Q., Teodoro, M.L.,
Rea, S., Mechtler, K., Kowalski, J.A., Homon, C.A., Kelly, T.A., and Jenuwein, T. (2007): Reversal of H3K9Me2 by a small molecule inhibitor for the G9a histone methyltransferase.
Mol. Cell 25 (3), 473-81.
Rea, S., Akhtar, A., (2006): MSL proteins and the regulation of gene expression.
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 310,117-139.
Taipale, M.,
Rea, S., Richter, K., Vilar, A., Lichter, P., Imhof, A., and Akhtar, A. (2005): hMOF histone acetyltransferase is required for histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation in mammalian cells.
Mol Cell Biol 25, 6798-6810.
Schotta, G., Ebert, A., Krauss, V., Fischer, A., Hoffmann, J.,
Rea, S., Jenuwein, T., Dorn, R., and Reuter, G. (2002): Central role of Drosophila SU(VAR)3-9 in histone H3-K9 methylation and heterochromatic gene silencing.
Embo J 21, 1121-1131.
Lachner, M., O'Carroll, D.,
Rea, S., Mechtler, K., and Jenuwein, T. (2001): Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins.
Nature
410, 116-20.
O'Carroll, D., Scherthan, H., Peters, A. H., Opravil, S., Haynes, A. R., Laible, G.,
Rea, S., Schmid, M., Lebersorger, A., Jerratsch, M., Sattler, L., Mattei, M. G., Denny, P., Brown, S. D., Schweizer, D., and Jenuwein, T. (2000): Isolation and characterization of Suv39h2, a second histone H3 methyltransferase gene that displays testis-specific expression.
Mol Cell Biol 20, 9423-33.
Rea, S., Eisenhaber, F., O'Carroll, D., Strahl, B. D., Sun, Z. W., Schmid, M., Opravil, S., Mechtler, K., Ponting, C. P., Allis, C. D., and Jenuwein, T. (2000): Regulation of chromatin structure by site-specific histone H3 methyltransferases.
Nature
406, 593-9.