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| Activation of transcription through histone H4 acetylation by MOF, an acetyltransferase essential for dosage compensation in Drosophila A Akhtar, PB Becker Molecular cell 5 (2), 367-375, 2000 | 574 | 2000 |
| The nuclear envelope and transcriptional control A Akhtar, SM Gasser Nature Reviews Genetics 8 (7), 507-517, 2007 | 551 | 2007 |
| Chromodomains are protein–RNA interaction modules A Akhtar, D Zink, PB Becker Nature 407 (6802), 405-409, 2000 | 509 | 2000 |
| Nuclear pore components are involved in the transcriptional regulation of dosage compensation in Drosophila S Mendjan, M Taipale, J Kind, H Holz, P Gebhardt, M Schelder, ... Molecular cell 21 (6), 811-823, 2006 | 462 | 2006 |
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| hMOF histone acetyltransferase is required for histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation in mammalian cells M Taipale, S Rea, K Richter, A Vilar, P Lichter, A Imhof, A Akhtar Molecular and cellular biology, 2005 | 359 | 2005 |
| Considerations when investigating lncRNA function in vivo AR Bassett, A Akhtar, DP Barlow, AP Bird, N Brockdorff, D Duboule, ... elife 3, e03058, 2014 | 351 | 2014 |
| Modulation of cellular processes by histone and non-histone protein acetylation M Shvedunova, A Akhtar Nature reviews Molecular cell biology 23 (5), 329-349, 2022 | 287 | 2022 |
| Dosage compensation in Drosophila melanogaster: epigenetic fine-tuning of chromosome-wide transcription T Conrad, A Akhtar Nature Reviews Genetics 13 (2), 123-134, 2012 | 280 | 2012 |
| Nuclear Pore Proteins Nup153 and Megator Define Transcriptionally Active Regions in the Drosophila Genome JM Vaquerizas, R Suyama, J Kind, K Miura, NM Luscombe, A Akhtar PLoS genetics 6 (2), e1000846, 2010 | 270 | 2010 |
| The dMi‐2 chromodomains are DNA binding modules important for ATP‐dependent nucleosome mobilization K Bouazoune, A Mitterweger, G Längst, A Imhof, A Akhtar, PB Becker, ... The EMBO journal, 2002 | 219 | 2002 |
| The histone acetyltransferase hMOF is frequently downregulated in primary breast carcinoma and medulloblastoma and constitutes a biomarker for clinical outcome in medulloblastoma S Pfister, S Rea, M Taipale, F Mendrzyk, B Straub, C Ittrich, O Thuerigen, ... International journal of cancer 122 (6), 1207-1213, 2008 | 192 | 2008 |
| Revealing long noncoding RNA architecture and functions using domain-specific chromatin isolation by RNA purification JJ Quinn, IA Ilik, K Qu, P Georgiev, C Chu, A Akhtar, HY Chang Nature biotechnology 32 (9), 933-940, 2014 | 188 | 2014 |
| Rapid evolutionary turnover underlies conserved lncRNA–genome interactions JJ Quinn, QC Zhang, P Georgiev, IA Ilik, A Akhtar, HY Chang Genes & development 30 (2), 191-207, 2016 | 179 | 2016 |
| Tandem stem-loops in roX RNAs act together to mediate X chromosome dosage compensation in Drosophila IA Ilik, JJ Quinn, P Georgiev, F Tavares-Cadete, D Maticzka, S Toscano, ... Molecular cell 51 (2), 156-173, 2013 | 178 | 2013 |
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| Males absent on the first (MOF): from flies to humans S Rea, G Xouri, A Akhtar Oncogene 26 (37), 5385-5394, 2007 | 156 | 2007 |
| MOF acetyl transferase regulates transcription and respiration in mitochondria A Chatterjee, J Seyfferth, J Lucci, R Gilsbach, S Preissl, L Böttinger, ... Cell 167 (3), 722-738. e23, 2016 | 151 | 2016 |
