This collection showcases the journal articles and other publications authored by researchers in the lab of Peter Jones, Ph.D., in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, prior to the closing of the department in 2017. The Peter Jones lab relocated to the University of Nevado, Reno.
Publications from 2017
Large family cohorts of lymphoblastoid cells provide a new cellular model for investigating facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, Takako I. Jones, Charis L. Himeda, Daniel P. Perez, and Peter L. Jones
Publications from 2016
CRISPR/dCas9-mediated transcriptional inhibition ameliorates the epigenetic dysregulation at D4Z4 and represses DUX4-fl in FSH muscular dystrophy, Charis L. Himeda, Takako I. Jones, and Peter L. Jones
Scalpel or Straitjacket: CRISPR/Cas9 Approaches for Muscular Dystrophies, Charis L. Himeda, Takako I. Jones, and Peter L. Jones
Transgenic Drosophila for Investigating DUX4 and FRG1, Two Genes Associated with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD), Takako I. Jones, Megan Parilla, and Peter L. Jones
Publications from 2015
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy as a model for epigenetic regulation and disease, Charis L. Himeda, Takako I. Jones, and Peter L. Jones
Individual epigenetic status of the pathogenic D4Z4 macrosatellite correlates with disease in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, Takako I. Jones, Oliver D. King, Charis L. Himeda, Sachiko Homma, Jennifer C. J. Chen, Mary Lou. Beermann, Chi Yan, Charles P. Emerson Jr., Jeffrey B. Miller, Kathryn R. Wagner, and Peter L. Jones
Emerging preclinical animal models for FSHD, Angela Lek, Fedik Rahimov, Peter L. Jones, and Louis M. Kunkel
Publications from 2014
Myogenic Enhancers Regulate Expression of the Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy-Associated DUX4 Gene, Charis L. Himeda, Celine Debarnot, Sachiko Homma, Mary Lou Beermann, Jeffrey B. Miller, Peter L. Jones, and Takako I. Jones
Publications from 2013
Analysis of Myogenic and Candidate Disease Biomarkers in FSHD Muscle Cells, Jennifer C. J. Chen; Takako I. Jones; Oliver D. King; Kendal Hanger; Fedik Rahimov; Sachiko Homma; Mary Lou Beermann; Genila M. Bibat; Jeffrey B. Miller; Louise M. Kunkel; Kathryn R. Wagner; Peter L. Jones; and Charles P. Emerson, Jr.
Molecular Mechanisms of FSH Muscular Dystrophy Pathogenesis, Peter L. Jones and Takako I. Jones
Epigenetic variability is a modifier of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, Takako I. Jones; Chia-Yun Sun; Celine Debarnot; Charis Himeda; Charles P. Emerson, Jr.; and Peter L. Jones
Exome sequencing identifies a novel SMCHD1 mutation in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 2, Satomi Mitsuhashi, Steven E. Boyden, Elicia A. Estrella, Takako I. Jones, Fedik Rahimov, Timothy W. Yu, Basil T. Darras, Anthony A. Amato, Rebecca D. Folkerth, Peter L. Jones, Louis M. Kunkel, and Peter B. Kang
Publications from 2012
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy family studies of DUX4 expression: evidence for disease modifiers and a quantitative model of pathogenesis, Takako I. Jones; Jennifer Cj Chen; Fedik Rahimov; Sachiko Homma; Patricia Arashiro; Mary Lou Beermann; Oliver D. King; Jeffrey Boone Miller; Louis M. Kunkel; Charles P. Emerson, Jr.; Kathryn R. Wagner; and Peter L. Jones
C. elegans PAT-9 is a nuclear zinc finger protein critical for the assembly of muscle attachments, Qian Liu, Takako I. Jones, Rebecca A. Bachmann, Mitchell Meghpara, Lauren Rogowski, Benjamin D. Williams, and Peter L. Jones
Association of modified cytosines and the methylated DNA-binding protein MeCP2 with distinctive structural domains of lampbrush chromatin, Garry T. Morgan, Peter L. Jones, and Michel Bellini
Publications from 2011
Temporal uncoupling of the DNA methylome and transcriptional repression during embryogenesis, Ozren Bogdanovic, Steven W. Long, Simon J. van Heeringen, Arie B. Brinkman, Jose Luis Gomez-Skarmeta, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Peter L. Jones, and Gert Jan C. Veenstra
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) region gene 1 (FRG1) is a dynamic nuclear and sarcomeric protein, Meredith L. Hanel, Chia-Yun Jessica Sun, Takako I. Jones, Steven W. Long, Simona Zanotti, Derek Milner, and Peter L. Jones
A brain-derived MeCP2 complex supports a role for MeCP2 in RNA processing, Steven W. Long, Jenny Y. Y. Ooi, Peter M. Yau, and Peter L. Jones
The nucleoporin Seh1 forms a complex with Mio and serves an essential tissue-specific function in Drosophila oogenesis, Stefania Senger, John Csokmay, Tanveer Akbar, Takako I. Jones, Prabuddha Sengupta, and Mary A Lilly
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy region gene 1 is a dynamic RNA-associated and actin-bundling protein, Chia-Yun Jessica Sun, Silvana van Koningsbruggen, Steven W. Long, Kirsten Straasheijm, Rinse Klooster, Takako I. Jones, Michel Bellini, Lyne Levesque, William M. Brieher, Silvere M. van der Maarel, and Peter L. Jones
Publications from 2010
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy region gene-1 (FRG-1) is an actin-bundling protein associated with muscle-attachment sites, Qian Liu, Takako I. Jones, Vivian W. Tang, William M. Brieher, and Peter L. Jones
Testing the effects of FSHD candidate gene expression in vertebrate muscle development, Ryan D. Wuebbles, Steven W. Long, Meredith L. Hanel, and Peter L. Jones
Publications from 2009
Muscular dystrophy candidate gene FRG1 is critical for muscle development, Meredith L. Hanel, Ryan Wuebbles, and Peter L. Jones
FSHD region gene 1 (FRG1) is crucial for angiogenesis linking FRG1 to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy-associated vasculopathy, Ryan Wuebbles, Meredith L. Hanel, and Peter L. Jones
Publications from 2008
Transient high glucose causes persistent epigenetic changes and altered gene expression during subsequent normoglycemia, Assam El-Osta, Daniella Brasacchio, Dachun Yao, Alessandro Pocai, Peter L. Jones, Robert G. Roeder, Mark E. Cooper, and Michael Brownlee
Publications from 2007
The tripartite motif (TRIM) of nuclear factor 7 is required for its association with transcription units, Brent Beenders, Peter L. Jones, and Michel Bellini
Engineered telomeres in transgenic Xenopus laevis, Ryan D. Wuebbles and Peter L. Jones
Publications from 2006
Reply to “Testing for association between MeCP2 and the brahma-associated SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex", K. N. Harikrishnan, Sharmistha Pal, Emma K. Baker, Maggie Z. Chow, Michelle G. de Silva, Jun Okabe, Li Wang, Peter L. Jones, Said Sif, and Assam El-Osta
Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera, Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium and Peter L. Jones
Functional CpG methylation system in a social insect, Ying Wang, Mireia Jorda, Peter L. Jones, Ryszard Maleszka, Xu Ling, Hugh M. Robertson, Craig A. Mizzen, Miguel A. Peinado, and Gene E. Robinson
Publications from 2005
Brahma links the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex with MeCP2-dependent transcriptional silencing, K. N. Harikrishnan, Maggie Z. Chow, Emma K. Baker, Sharmistha Pal, Sahar Bassal, Daniella Brasacchio, Li Wang, Jeff M. Craig, Peter L. Jones, Said Sif, and Assam El-Osta
Publications from 2004
DNA repair in a chromatin environment, Ryan D. Wuebbles and Peter L. Jones
Publications from 2003
N-CoR-HDAC corepressor complexes: roles in transcriptional regulation by nuclear hormone receptors, Peter L. Jones and Y.-B. Shi