Brent D. Brower-Toland, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
Washington University, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 
Area:
the role that chromatin structure plays in gene regulation
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Sarah C.R. Elgin grad student 2008 Washington University
 (Specific factors involved in gene silencing in the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster.)
Craig S. Pikaard research scientist Washington University (Cell Biology Tree)
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Haag JR, Brower-Toland B, Krieger EK, et al. (2014) Functional diversification of maize RNA polymerase IV and V subtypes via alternative catalytic subunits. Cell Reports. 9: 378-90
Petrick JS, Brower-Toland B, Jackson AL, et al. (2013) Safety assessment of food and feed from biotechnology-derived crops employing RNA-mediated gene regulation to achieve desired traits: a scientific review. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology : Rtp. 66: 167-76
Brower-Toland B, Riddle NC, Jiang H, et al. (2009) Multiple SET methyltransferases are required to maintain normal heterochromatin domains in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 181: 1303-19
Earley KW, Shook MS, Brower-Toland B, et al. (2007) In vitro specificities of Arabidopsis co-activator histone acetyltransferases: Implications for histone hyperacetylation in gene activation Plant Journal. 52: 615-626
Brower-Toland B, Findley SD, Jiang L, et al. (2007) Drosophila PIWI associates with chromatin and interacts directly with HP1a. Genes & Development. 21: 2300-11
Huisinga KL, Brower-Toland B, Elgin SC. (2006) The contradictory definitions of heterochromatin: transcription and silencing. Chromosoma. 115: 110-22
Brower-Toland B, Wacker DA, Fulbright RM, et al. (2005) Specific contributions of histone tails and their acetylation to the mechanical stability of nucleosomes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 346: 135-46
Brower-Toland B, Wang MD. (2004) Use of optical trapping techniques to study single-nucleosome dynamics. Methods in Enzymology. 376: 62-72
Brower-Toland BD, Smith CL, Yeh RC, et al. (2002) Mechanical disruption of individual nucleosomes reveals a reversible multistage release of DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 1960-5
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