Publications

Chen J, Horton J, Sagum C, Zhou J, Cheng X, Bedford MT.Histone H3 N-terminal mimicry drives a novel network of methyl-effector interactions. Biochem J. 2021 May 28;478(10):1943-1958.

Wang Y, Person MD, Bedford MT. Pan-methylarginine antibody generation using PEG linked GAR motifs as antigens. Methods. 2021 Jun 6:S1046-2023(21)00157-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.06.005. Online ahead of print.

Wright T, Wang Y, Bedford MT. The Role of the PRMT5-SND1 Axis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Epigenomes. 2021 Mar;5(1):2.

Avasarala S, Wu PY, Khan SQ, Yanlin S, Van Scoyk M, Bao J, Di Lorenzo A, David O, Bedford MT, Gupta V, Winn RA, Bikkavilli RK. PRMT6 Promotes Lung Tumor Progression via the Alternate Activation of Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Mol Cancer Res. 2020 Jan;18(1):166-178. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0204.

Baumert R, Ji H, Paulucci-Holthauzen A, Wolfe A, Sagum C, Hodgson L, Arikkath J, Chen X, Bedford MT, Waxham MN, McCrea PD. Novel phospho-switch function of delta-catenin in dendrite development. J Cell Biol. 2020 Nov 2;219(11):e201909166. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201909166.

Cheng D, Gao G, Di Lorenzo A, Jayne S, Hottiger MO, Richard S, Bedford MT. Genetic evidence for partial redundancy between the arginine methyltransferases CARM1 and PRMT6. J Biol Chem. 2020 Dec 11;295(50):17060-17070. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.014704.

Genois MM, Gagné JP, Yasuhara T, Jackson J, Saxena S, Langelier MF, Ahel I, Bedford MT, Pascal JM, Vindigni A, Poirier GG, Zou L. CARM1 regulates replication fork speed and stress response by stimulating PARP1. Mol Cell. 2020 Dec 30:S1097-2765(20)30902-3. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.12.010.

Han Z, Dash S, Sagum CA, Ruthel G, Jaladanki CK, Berry CT, Schwoerer MP, Harty NM, Freedman BD, Bedford MT, Fan H, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Shtanko O, Harty RN. Modular mimicry and engagement of the Hippo pathway by Marburg virus VP40: Implications for filovirus biology and budding. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Jan 6;16(1):e1008231.

Hwang JW, Kim SN, Myung N, Song D, Han G, Bae GU, Bedford MT, Kim YK. PRMT5 promotes DNA repair through methylation of 53BP1 and is regulated by Src-mediated phosphorylation. Commun Biol. 2020 Aug 5;3(1):428. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01157-z. 

Jain K, Fraser CS, Marunde MR, Parker MM, Sagum C, Burg JM, Hall N, Popova IK, Rodriguez KL, Vaidya A, Krajewski K, Keogh MC, Bedford MT, Strahl BD. Characterization of the plant homeodomain (PHD) reader family for their histone tail interactions. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2020 Jan 24;13(1):3

Prasanth KR, Hirano M, Fagg WS, McAnarney ET, Shan C, Xie X, Hage A, Pietzsch CA, Bukreyev A, Rajsbaum R, Shi PY, Bedford MT, Bradrick SS, Menachery V, Garcia-Blanco MA. Topoisomerase III-beta is required for efficient replication of positive-sense RNA viruses. Antiviral Res. 2020 Oct;182:104874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104874. 

Shen Y, Gao G, Yu X, Kim HS, Wang L, Xie L, Schwarz M, Chen X, Guccione E, Liu J, Bedford MT*, Jin J*. Discovery of First-in-class Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) Degraders. J Med Chem. 2020 Sep 10;63(17):9977-9989. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01111. (*co-corresponding authors)

Stossi F, Dandekar RD, Mancini MG, Gu G, Fuqua SAW, Nardone A, De Angelis C, Fu X, Schiff R, Bedford MT, Xu W, Johansson HE, Stephan CC, Mancini MA. Estrogen-induced transcription at individual alleles is independent of receptor level and active conformation but can be modulated by coactivators activity. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Feb 28;48(4):1800-1810.

Tetenborg S, Wang HY, Nemitz L, Depping A, Espejo AB, Aseervatham J, Bedford MT, Janssen-Bienhold U, O'Brien J, Dedek K. Phosphorylation of Connexin36 near the C-terminus switches binding affinities for PDZ-domain and 14-3-3 proteins in vitro. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 27;10(1):18378. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75375-0.

Vaughan RM, Kupai A, Foley CA, Sagum CA, Tibben BM, Eden HE, Tiedemann RL, Berryhill CA, Patel V, Shaw KM, Krajewski K, Strahl BD, Bedford MT, Frye SV, Dickson BM, Rothbart SB. The histone and non-histone methyllysine reader activities of the UHRF1 tandem Tudor domain are dispensable for the propagation of aberrant DNA methylation patterning in cancer cells. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2020 Oct 23;13(1):44.

Woodcock CB, Horton JR, Zhou J, Bedford MT, Blumenthal RM, Zhang X, Cheng X. Biochemical and structural basis for YTH domain of human YTHDC1 binding to methylated adenine in DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Oct 9;48(18):10329-10341. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa604.

Wu X, Liu S, Sagum C, Chen J, Singh R, Chaturvedi A, Horton JR, Kashyap TR, Fushman D, Cheng X, Bedford MT, Wang B. Crosstalk between Lys63- and Lys11-polyubiquitin signaling at DNA damage sites is driven by Cezanne. Genes Dev. 2019 Nov 7. doi: 10.1101/gad.332395.119. [Epub ahead of print]

Manickavinayaham S, Vélez-Cruz R, Biswas AK, Bedford E, Klein BJ, Kutateladze TG, Liu B, Bedford MT, Johnson DG. E2F1 acetylation directs p300/CBP-mediated histone acetylation at DNA double-strand breaks to facilitate repair. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 30;10(1):4951.

Avasarala S, Wu PY, Khan SQ, Yanlin S, Van Scoyk M, Bao J, Di Lorenzo A, David O, Bedford MT, Gupta V, Winn RA, Bikkavilli RK. PRMT6 promotes lung tumor progression via the alternate activation of tumor-associated macrophages. Mol Cancer Res. 2019 Oct 16. pii: molcanres.0204.2019. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0204. [Epub ahead of print]

He W, Zhang L, Villarreal OD, Fu R, Bedford E, Dou J, Patel AY, Bedford MT, Shi X, Chen T, Bartholomew B, Xu H. De novo identification of essential protein domains from CRISPR-Cas9 tiling-sgRNA knockout screens. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 4;10(1):4541.

Chen J, Sagum C, Bedford MT. Protein domain microarrays as a platform to decipher signaling pathways and the histone code. Methods. 2019 Aug 23. pii: S1046-2023(19)30137-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.08.007.

Lamb KN, Bsteh D, Dishman SN, Moussa HF, Fan H, Stuckey JI, Norris JL, Cholensky SH, Li D, Wang J, Sagum C, Stanton BZ, Bedford MT, Pearce KH, Kenakin TP, Kireev DB, Wang GG, James LI, Bell O, Frye SV. Discovery and Characterization of a Cellular Potent Positive Allosteric Modulator of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 Chromodomain, CBX7. Cell Chem Biol. 2019 Aug 14. pii: S2451-9456(19)30244-2. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2019.07.013

Gao G, Zhang L, Villarreal OD, He W, Su D, Bedford E, Moh P, Shen J, Shi X, Bedford MT, Xu H. PRMT1 loss sensitizes cells to PRMT5 inhibition. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jun 4;47(10):5038-5048. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz200.

Roth L, Wakim J, Wasserman E, Shalev M, Arman E, Stein M, Brumfeld V, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Tuckermann J, Elson A. Phosphorylation of the phosphatase PTPROt at Tyr399 is a molecular switch that controls osteoclast activity and bone mass in vivo. Sci Signal. 2019 Jan 8;12(563). pii: eaau0240.

Bao J, Di Lorenzo A, Lin K, Lu Y, Zhong Y, Sebastian MM, Muller WJ, Yang Y, Bedford MT. Mouse Models of Overexpression Reveal Distinct Oncogenic Roles for Different Type I Protein Arginine Methyltransferases. Cancer Res. 2019 Jan 1;79(1):21-32. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-1995. 

Hupalowska A, Jedrusik A, Zhu M, Bedford MT, Glover DM, Zernicka-Goetz M. CARM1 and Paraspeckles Regulate Pre-implantation Mouse Embryo Development. Cell. 2018 Dec 13;175(7):1902-1916.e13. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.11.027.

Cheng D, Vemulapalli V, Lu Y, Shen J, Aoyagi S, Fry CJ, Yang Y, Foulds CE, Stossi F, Treviño LS, Mancini MA, O'Malley BW, Walker CL, Boyer TG, Bedford MT.CARM1 methylates MED12 to regulate its RNA-binding ability. Life Sci Alliance. 2018 Sep 19;1(5):e201800117. 

Bao J, Rousseaux S, Shen J, Lin K, Lu Y, Bedford MT. The arginine methyltransferase CARM1 represses p300•ACT•CREMτ activity and is required for spermiogenesis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 May 18;46(9):4327-4343.

Suh JL, Watts B, Stuckey JI, Norris-Drouin JL, Cholensky SH, Dickson BM, An Y, Mathea S, Salah E, Knapp S, Khan A, Adams AT, Strahl BD, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, James LI, Kireev DB, Frye SV. Quantitative Characterization of Bivalent Probes for a Dual Bromodomain Protein, Transcription Initiation Factor TFIID Subunit 1. Biochemistry. 2018 Apr 10;57(14):2140-2149.

Xi Y, Shi J, Li W, Tanaka K, Allton KL, Richardson D, Li J, Franco HL, Nagari A, Malladi VS, Coletta LD, Simper MS, Keyomarsi K, Shen J, Bedford MT, Shi X, Barton MC, Lee Kraus W, Li W, Dent SYR. Histone modification profiling in breast cancer cell lines highlights commonalities and differences among subtypes. BMC Genomics. 2018 Feb 20;19(1):150. 

Franco HL, Nagari A, Malladi V, Li W, Xi Y, Richardson D, Allton KL, Tanaka K, Li J, Murakami S, Keyomarsi K, Bedford MT, Shi X, Li W, Barton MC, Dent SYR, Kraus WL. Enhancer transcription reveals subtype-specific gene expression programs controlling breast cancer pathogenesis. Genome Res. 2018 Feb;28(2):159-170.

Veland N, Hardikar S, Zhong Y, Gayatri S, Dan J, Strahl BD, Rothbart SB, Bedford MT, Chen T. The Arginine Methyltransferase PRMT6 Regulates DNA Methylation and Contributes to Global DNA Hypomethylation in Cancer. Cell Rep. 2017 Dec 19;21(12):3390-3397.

Bae N, Gao M, Li X, Premkumar T, Sbardella G, Chen J, Bedford MT. A transcriptional coregulator, SPIN·DOC, attenuates the coactivator activity of Spindlin1. J Biol Chem. 2017 Dec 22;292(51):20808-20817.

Carr SM, Munro S, Sagum CA, Fedorov O, Bedford MT, La Thangue NB. Tudor-domain protein PHF20L1 reads lysine methylated retinoblastoma tumour suppressor protein. Cell Death Differ. 2017 Dec;24(12):2139-2149.

Han Z, Sagum CA, Takizawa F, Ruthel G, Berry CT, Kong J, Sunyer JO, Freedman BD, Bedford MT, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Harty RN. Ubiquitin Ligase WWP1 Interacts with Ebola Virus VP40 To Regulate Egress. J Virol. 2017 Sep 27;91(20). pii: e00812-17.

Gates LA, Shi J, Rohira AD, Feng Q, Zhu B, Bedford MT, Sagum CA, Jung SY, Qin J, Tsai MJ, Tsai SY, Li W, Foulds CE, O'Malley BW. Acetylation on histone H3 lysine 9 mediates a switch from transcription initiation to elongation. J Biol Chem. 2017 Sep 1;292(35):14456-14472.

Kaushik S, Liu F, Veazey K, Gao G, Das P, Neves L, Li K, Zhong Y, Lu Y, Giuliani V, Bedford MT, Nimer SD, Santos MA. Genetic deletion or small molecule inhibition of the arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 exhibit anti-tumoral activity in mouse models of MLL-rearranged AML. Leukemia. 2017 Jun 30. doi: 10.1038/leu.2017.206. [Epub ahead of print]

Bae N, Viviano M, Su X, Lv J, Cheng D, Sagum C, Castellano S, Bai X, Johnson C, Khalil MI, Shen J, Chen K, Li H, Sbardella G, Bedford MT. Developing Spindlin1 small-molecule inhibitors by using protein microarrays. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Jul;13(7):750-756.

Shanle EK, Shinsky SA, Bridgers JB, Bae N, Sagum C, Krajewski K, Rothbart SB, Bedford MT, Strahl BD. Histone peptide microarray screen of chromo and Tudor domains defines new histone lysine methylation interactions. .Epigenetics Chromatin. 2017 Mar 14;10:12.

Gao G, Dhar S, Bedford MT. PRMT5 regulates IRES-dependent translation via methylation of hnRNP A1. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 May 5;45(8):4359-4369. 

Liang J, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Han Z, Harty RN. Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy Protein BAG3 Negatively Regulates Ebola and Marburg VP40-Mediated Egress.PLoS Pathog. 2017 Jan 11;13(1):e1006132.

Espejo AB, Gao G, Black K, Gayatri S, Veland N, Kim J, Chen T, Sudol M, Walker C, Bedford MT. PRMT5 C-terminal Phosphorylation Modulates a 14-3-3/PDZ Interaction Switch. J Biol Chem. 2017 Feb 10;292(6):2255-2265.

Barnea M, Olender T, Bedford MT, Elson A. Regulation of receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatases by their C-terminal tail domains. Biochem Soc Trans. 2016 Oct 15;44(5):1295-1303. Review.

Norrie JL, Li Q, Co S, Huang BL, Ding D, Uy JC, Ji Z, Mackem S, Bedford MT, Galli A, Ji H, Vokes SA. PRMT5 is essential for the maintenance of chondrogenic progenitor cells in the limb bud. Development. 2016 Dec 15;143(24):4608-4619.

Hossain MB, Shifat R, Johnson DG, Bedford MT, Gabrusiewicz KR, Cortes-Santiago N, Luo X, Lu Z, Ezhilarasan R, Sulman EP, Jiang H, Li SS, Lang FF, Tyler J, Hung MC, Fueyo J, Gomez-Manzano C. TIE2-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of H4 regulates DNA damage response by recruiting ABL1. Sci Adv. 2016 Apr 1;2(4):e1501290.

Park IY, Powell RT, Tripathi DN, Dere R, Ho TH, Blasius TL, Chiang YC, Davis IJ, Fahey CC, Hacker KE, Verhey KJ, Bedford MT, Jonasch E, Rathmell WK, Walker CL. Dual Chromatin and Cytoskeletal Remodeling by SETD2. Cell. 2016 Aug 11;166(4):950-62.

Gayatri S, Cowles MW, Vemulapalli V, Cheng D, Sun ZW, Bedford MT. Using oriented peptide array libraries to evaluate methylarginine-specific antibodies and arginine methyltransferase substrate motifs. Sci Rep. 2016 Jun 24;6:28718. doi: 10.1038/srep28718.

Bao J, Bedford MT. Epigenetic regulation of the histone-to-protamine transition during spermiogenesis. Reproduction. 2016 May;151(5):R55-70. doi: 10.1530/REP-15-0562.

Zhang X, Peng D, Xi Y, Yuan C, Sagum CA, Klein BJ, Tanaka K, Wen H, Kutateladze TG, Li W, Bedford MT, Shi X. G9a-mediated methylation of ERα links the PHF20/MOF histone acetyltransferase complex to hormonal gene expression. Nat Commun. 2016 Mar 10;7:10810. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10810.

Stuckey JI, Dickson BM, Cheng N, Liu Y, Norris JL, Cholensky SH, Tempel W, Qin S, Huber KG, Sagum C, Black K, Li F, Huang XP, Roth BL, Baughman BM,
Senisterra G, Pattenden SG, Vedadi M, Brown PJ, Bedford MT, Min J, Arrowsmith CH, James LI, Frye SV. A cellular chemical probe targeting the chromodomains of Polycomb repressive complex 1. Nat Chem Biol. 2016 Mar;12(3):180-7. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2007.

Estève PO, Zhang G, Ponnaluri VK, Deepti K, Chin HG, Dai N, Sagum C, Black K, Corrêa IR Jr, Bedford MT, Cheng X, Pradhan S. Binding of 14-3-3 reader proteins to phosphorylated DNMT1 facilitates aberrant DNA methylation and gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Feb 29;44(4):1642-56. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1162.

Metzger E, Willmann D, McMillan J, Forne I, Metzger P, Gerhardt S, Petroll K, von Maessenhausen A, Urban S, Schott AK, Espejo A, Eberlin A, Wohlwend D, Schüle KM, Schleicher M, Perner S, Bedford MT, Jung M, Dengjel J, Flaig R, Imhof A, Einsle O, Schüle R. Assembly of methylated KDM1A and CHD1 drives androgen receptor-dependent transcription and translocation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2016 Jan 11. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.3153.

Hu SB, Xiang JF, Li X, Xu Y, Xue W, Huang M, Wong CC, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Yang L, Cheng D, Chen LL. Protein arginine methyltransferase CARM1 attenuates the paraspeckle-mediated nuclear retention of mRNAs containing IRAlus. Genes Dev. 2015 Mar 15;29(6):630-45.

Perez CJ, Mecklenburg L, Jaubert J, Martinez-Santamaria L, Iritani BM, Espejo A, Napoli E, Song G, Del Río M, DiGiovanni J, Giulivi C, Bedford MT, Dent SY, Wood RD, Kusewitt DF, Guénet JL, Conti CJ, Benavides F. Increased Susceptibility to Skin Carcinogenesis Associated with a Spontaneous Mouse Mutation in the Palmitoyl Transferase Zdhhc13 Gene. J Invest Dermatol 135, 3133–3143, 2015.

Hadjikyriacou A, Yang Y, Espejo A, Bedford MT, Clarke SG. Unique Features of Human Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 9 (PRMT9) and Its Substrate RNA Splicing Factor SF3B2. J Biol Chem 290(27):16723-43, 2015.

Kapoor P, Bao Y, Xiao J, Espejo A, Yang L, Bedford MT, Peng G, Shen X. Phosphorylation-Dependent Enhancement of Rad53 Kinase Activity through the INO80 Chromatin Remodeling Complex. Mol Cell 58(5):863-9, 2015.

Sarker RS, John-Schuster G, Bohla A, Mutze K, Burgstaller G, Bedford MT, Königshoff M, Eickelberg O, Yildirim AÖ. Coactivator-Associated Arginine Methyltransferase-1 Function in Alveolar Epithelial Senescence and Elastase-Induced Emphysema Susceptibility. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 53(6):769-81, 2015.

Yang Y, Hadjikyriacou A, Xia Z, Gayatri S, Kim D, Zurita-Lopez C, Kelly R, Guo A5, Li W, Clarke SG, Bedford MT. PRMT9 is a type II methyltransferase that methylates the splicing factor SAP145. Nat Commun 6:6428, 2015.  

Levy-Apter E, Finkelshtein E, Vemulapalli V, Li SS, Bedford MT, Elson A. Adaptor protein GRB2 promotes Src tyrosine kinase activation and podosomal organization by protein-tyrosine phosphatase ϵ in osteoclasts. J Biol Chem. 2014 Dec 26;289(52):36048-58.

Guo A, Gu H, Zhou J, Mulhern D, Wang Y, Lee KA, Yang V, Aguiar M, Kornhauser J, Jia X, Ren J, Beausoleil SA, Silva JC, Vemulapalli V, Bedford MT, Comb MJ. Immunoaffinity enrichment and mass spectrometry analysis of protein methylation. Mol Cell Proteomics 13(1):372-387, 2014.

Di Lorenzo A, Yang Y, Macaluso M, Bedford MT. A gain-of-function mouse model identifies PRMT6 as a NF-κB coactivator. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jul;42(13):8297-309.

Gayatri S, Bedford MT. Readers of histone methylarginine marks. Biochim Biophys Acta. e-Pub 2/2014.

Mallaret M, Synofzik M, Lee J, Sagum CA, Mahajnah M, Sharkia R, Drouot N, Renaud M, Klein FA, Anheim M, Tranchant C, Mignot C, Mandel JL, Bedford M, Bauer P, Salih MA, Schüle R, Schöls L, Aldaz CM, Koenig M. The tumour suppressor gene WWOX is mutated in autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia with epilepsy and mental retardation. Brain 137(Pt 2):411-419, 2014.

Esteve PO, Terragni J, Deepti K, Chin HG, Dai N, Espejo A, Correa I Jr, Bedford MT, Pradhan S. Methyllysine reader PHD finger protein 20-like 1 antagonizes DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferase 1 proteasomal degradation. J Biol Chem 289(12):8277-8287, 2014.

Yang Y, McBride KM, Hensley S, Lu Y, Chedin F, Bedford MT. Arginine methylation facilitates the recruitment of TOP3B to chromatin to prevent R loop accumulation. Mol Cell 53(3):484-97, 2014.

Feng Y, Maity R, Whitelegge JP, Hadjikyriacou A, Li Z, Zurita-Lopez C, Al-Hadid Q, Clark AT, Bedford MT, Masson JY, Clarke SG. Mammalian protein arginine methyltransferase 7 (PRMT7) specifically targets R-X-R sites in lysine and arginine-rich regions. J Biol Chem 288(52):37010-37025, 2013.

Zeng H, Wu J, Bedford MT, Sbardella G, Hoffmann FM, Bi K, Xu W. A TR-FRET-based functional assay for screening activators of CARM1. Chembiochem 14(7):827-35, 2013.

Zheng S, Moehlenbrink J, Lu YC, Zalmas LP, Sagum CA, Carr S, McGouran JF, Alexander L, Fedorov O, Munro S, Kessler B, Bedford MT, Yu Q, La Thangue NB. Arginine methylation-dependent reader-writer interplay governs growth control by E2F-1. Mol Cell 52(1):37-51, 2013.

Li J, Zhao Z, Carter C, Ehrlich LI, Bedford MT*, Richie ER*. (*Corresponding authors). Coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1 regulates fetal hematopoiesis and thymocyte development. J Immunol 190(2):597-604, 2013.

James LI, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Zhong N, Krichesvky L, Korboukh VK, Herold JM, MacNevin CJ, Norris JL, Sagum CC, Tempel W, Marcon E, Guo H, Gao C, Huang XP, Duan S, Emili A, Greenblatt JF, Kireev DB, Jin J, Janzen WP, Brown PJ, Bedford MT, Arrowsmith CH, Frye SV. Discovery of a chemical probe for the L3MBTL3 methyllysine reader domain. Nat Chem Biol 9(3):184-91, 2013.

Dhar S, Vemulapalli V, Patananan AN, Huang G, DiLorenzo A, Richard S, Comb MJ, Guo A, Clarke SG, Bedford MT. Loss of the major Type I arginine methyltransferase PRMT1 causes substrate scavenging by other PRMTs. Sci Rep 3:1311, 2013.

Yang Y, Bedford MT. Protein arginine methyltransferases and cancer. Nat Rev Cancer 13(1):37-50, 2013.

Kawabe YI, Wang YX, McKinnell IW, Bedford MT, Rudnicki MA. Carm1 regulates Pax7 transcriptional activity through MLL1/2 recruitment during asymmetric satellite stem cell divisions. Cell Stem Cell 11(3):333-45, 2012.

Liu K, Guo Y, Liu H, Bian C, Lam R, Liu Y, Mackenzie F, Rojas LA, Reinberg D, Bedford MT, Xu RM, Min J. Crystal structure of TDRD3 and methyl-arginine binding characterization of TDRD3, SMN and SPF30. PLoS One 7(2):e30375, 2012.

Zhao H, Ho PC, Lo YH, Espejo A, Bedford MT, Hung MC, Wang SC. Interaction of proliferation cell nuclear antifen (PCNA) with c-Abl in cell proliferation and response to DNA damages in breast cancer. PLoS One 7(1):e29416, 2012.

Badeaux AI, Yang Y, Cardenas K, Vemulapalli V, Chen K, Kusewitt D, Richie E, Li W, Bedford MT. Loss of the methyl lysine effector protein PHF20 impacts the expression of genes regulated by the lysine acetyltransferase MOF. J Biol Chem 287(1):429-37, 2012.
Cheng D, Vemulapalli V, Bedford MT. Methods applied to the study of protein arginine methylation. Methods Enzymol 512:71-92, 2012.

Calnan DR, Webb AE, White JL, Stowe TR, Goswami T, Shi X, Espejo A, Bedford MT, Gozani O, Gygi SP, Brunet A. Methylation by Set9 modulates PoxO3 stability and transcriptional activity. Aging (Albany NY) 4(7):462-79, 2012.

Cui G, Park S, Badeaux AI, Kim D, Lee J, Thompson JR, Yan F, Kaneko S, Yuan Z, Botuyan MV, Bedford MT, Cheng JQ, Mer G. PHF20 is an effector protein of p53 double lysine methylation that stabilizes and activates p53. Nat Struct Mol Biol 19(9):916-24, 2012.

Rothbart SB, Krajewski K, Nady N, Tempel W, Xue S, Badeaux AI, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Martinez JY, Bedford MT, Fuchs SM, Arrowsmith CH, Strahl BD. Association of UHRF1 with methylated H3K9 directs the maintenance of DNA methylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol 19(11):1155-60, 2012.

Yang Y, Bedford MT. Titivated for destruction: the methyl degron. Mol Cell 48(4):487-8, 2012.

Castellano S, Spannhoff A, Milite C, Dal Piaz F, Cheng D, Tosco A, Viviano M, Yamani A, Cianciulli A, Sala M, Cura V, Cavarelli J, Novellino E, Mai A, Bedford MT, Sbardella G. Identification of small-molecule enhancers of arginine methylation catalyzed by coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1. J Med Chem 55(22):9875-90, 2012.

Spannhoff A, Kim YK, Raynal NJ, Gharibyan V, Su MB, Zhou YY, Li J, Castellano S, Sbardella G, Issa JP, Bedford MT. Histone deacetylase inhibitor activity in royal jelly might facilitate caste switching in bees. EMBO Rep 12(3):238-43, 2011.

Levy D, Kuo AJ, Chang Y, Schaefer U, Kitson C, Cheung P, Espejo A, Zee BM, Tangsombatvisit S, Tennen RI, Kuo AY, Tanjing S, Liu CL, Cheung R, Utz PJ, Chua K, Shi X, Prinjha R, Garcia BA, Bedford MT, Tarakhovsky A, Cheng X, Gozani O. Lysine methylation of the NF-kB subunit RelA by SETD6 couples activity of the histone methyltransferase GLP at chromatin to tonic repression of NF-κB signaling. Nat Immunol 12(1):29-36, 2011.

Chang Y, Sun L, Kokura K, Horton JR, Fukuda M, Espejo A, Izumi V, Koomen JM, Bedford MT, Zhang X, Shinkai Y, Fang J, Cheng X. MPP8 mediates the interactions between DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a and H3K9 methyltransferase GLP/G9a. Nat Commun 2:533, 2011.

Kim D, Lee J, Cheng D, Li J, Carter C, Richie E, Bedford MT. Enzymatic activity is required for the in vivo functions of the coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1. J Biol Chem 285(2):1147-1152, 2010.

Yang Y, Lu Y, Espejo A, Wu J, Xu W, Liang S, Bedford MT. TDRD3 is an effector molecule for arginine-methylated histone marks. Mol Cell 40(6):1016-23, 2010.

Bedford MT, Clarke SG. Protein arginine methylation in mammals: Who, what, and why. Mol Cell 33(1):1-13, 2009.

Iberg AN, Espejo A, Cheng D, Kim D, Michaud-Levesque J, Richard S, Bedford MT. Arginine methylation of the histone H3 tail impedes effector binding. J Biol Chem 283(6):3006-10, 2008.

Yadav N, Cheng D, Richard S,Morel M, Iyer VR, Aldaz CM, Bedford MT. CARM1 promotes adipocyte differentiation by coactivating PPARgamma. EMBO Rep 9(2):193-8, 2008.

Swiercz R, Cheng D, Kim D, Bedford MT. Ribosomal protein rpS2 is hypomethylated in PRMT3-deficient mice. J Biol Chem 282:16917-16923, 2007.

Cheng D, Cote J, Shaaban S, Bedford MT. The arginine methyltransferase CARM1 regulates the coupling of transcription and mRNA processing. Molecular Cell 25:71-83, 2007.

Kim J, Daniel J, Espejo A, Lake A, Krishna M, Xia L, Zhang Y, Bedford MT. Tudor, MBT and chromo domains gauge the degree of lysine methylation. EMBO Rep 7:397-403, 4/2006.

Huang Y, Fang J, Bedford MT, Zhang Y, Xu R-M. Recognition of histone H3 lysine-4 methylation by the double tudor domain of JMJD2A. Science 312:748-751, 2006.

Bedford MT and Richard S. Arginine methylation: An emerging regulator of protein function. Molecular Cell, 18: 263-272, 2005.

Cheng D, Yadav N, King RW, Swanson MS, Weinstein EJ, Bedford MT. Small molecule regulators of protein arginine methyltransferases. J Biol Chem, 279: 23892-23899, 2004.

Kim J, Lee J, Yadav N, Wu Q, Carter C, Richard S, Richie E, Bedford MT. Loss of CARM1 results in hypomethylation of TARPP and deregulated early T cell development. J Biol Chem, 279: 25339-25344, 2004.

Yadav N, Lee J, Kim J, Shen J, Hu MC-T, Aldaz CM, Bedford MT. Specific protein methylation defects and gene expression perturbations in CARM1-deficient mice. PNAS, 100: 6464-6468, 2003.

Frankel A, Yadav N, Lee J, Branscombe TL, Clarke S, Bedford MT. The novel human protein arginine N-methyltransferase PRMT6 is a nuclear enzyme displaying unique substrate specificity. J Biol Chem, 277: 3537-3543, 2002.

Lee J and Bedford MT. PABP1 identified as an arginine methyltransferase substrate using high-density protein arrays. EMBO Reports, 3: 268-273, 2002.

Cheng D, Gao G, Di Lorenzo A, Jayne S, Hottiger MO, Richard S, Bedford MT. Genetic evidence for partial redundancy between the arginine methyltransferases CARM1 and PRMT6. J Biol Chem. 2020 Dec 11;295(50):17060-17070.

Veazey KJ, Cheng D, Lin K, Villarreal OD, Gao G, Perez-Oquendo M, Van HT, Stratton SA, Green M, Xu H, Lu Y, Bedford MT, Santos MA. CARM1 inhibition reduces histone acetyltransferase activity causing synthetic lethality in CREBBP/EP300-mutated lymphomas. Leukemia. 2020 Dec;34(12):3269-3285.

Gao G, Zhang L, Villarreal OD, He W, Su D, Bedford E, Moh P, Shen J, Shi X, Bedford MT, Xu H. PRMT1 loss sensitizes cells to PRMT5 inhibition. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jun 4;47(10):5038-5048.

Bae N, Viviano M, Su X, Lv J, Cheng D, Sagum C, Castellano S, Bai X, Johnson C, Khalil MI, Shen J, Chen K, Li H, Sbardella G, Bedford MT. Developing Spindlin1 small-molecule inhibitors by using protein microarrays. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Jul;13(7):750-756.

James LI, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Zhong N, Krichevsky L, Korboukh VK, Herold JM, MacNevin CJ, Norris JL, Sagum CA, Tempel W, Marcon E, Guo H, Gao C, Huang XP, Duan S, Emili A, Greenblatt JF, Kireev DB, Jin J, Janzen WP, Brown PJ, Bedford MT, Arrowsmith CH, Frye SV. Discovery of a chemical probe for the L3MBTL3 methyllysine reader domain. Nat Chem Biol. 2013 Mar;9(3):184-91.

Cheng D, Valente S, Castellano S, Sbardella G, Di Santo R, Costi R, Bedford MT, Mai A. Novel 3,5-bis(bromogydroxybenzylidene)piperidin-4-ones as coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1 inhibitors: Enzyme selectivity and cellular activity. J Med Chem 54(13):4928-4932, 2011.

Bissinger EM, Heinke R, Spannhoff A, Eberlin A, Metzger E, Cura V, Hassenboehler P, Cavarelli J, Schüle R, Bedford MT, Sippl W, Jung M. Acyl derivatives of p-aminosulfonamides and dapsone as new inhibitors of the arginine methyltransferase hPRMT1. Bioorg Med Chem. 2011 Mar 24.

Spannhoff A, Kim YK, Raynal NJ, Gharibyan V, Su MB, Zhou YY, Li J, Castellano S, Sbardella G, Issa JP, Bedford MT. Histone deacetylase inhibitor activity in royal jelly might facilitate caste switching in bees. EMBO Rep. 2011 Mar;12(3):238-43.

Cheng D, Bedford MT. Xenoestrogens Regulate the Activity of Arginine Methyltransferases.Chembiochem. 2011 Jan 24;12(2):323-9.

Chang Y, Ganesh T, Horton JR, Spannhoff A, Liu J, Sun A, Zhang X, Bedford MT, Shinkai Y, Snyder JP, Cheng X. Adding a lysine mimic in the design of potent inhibitors of histone lysine methyltransferases. J Mol Biol. 2010 Jul 2;400(1):1-7. Epub 2010 Apr 29.

Castellano S, Milite C, Ragno R, Simeoni S, Mai A, Limongelli V, Novellino E, Bauer I, Brosch G, Spannhoff A, Cheng D, Bedford MT, Sbardella G. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of carboxy analogues of arginine methyltransferase inhibitor 1 (AMI-1). ChemMedChem. 2010 Mar 1;5(3):398-414.

Chang Y, Zhang X, Horton JR, Spannhoff A, Bedford MT, Cheng S. Structural basis for inhibition of G9a and GLP histone lysine methyltransferases by BIX-01294. Nat Struct Mol Biol. e-Pub 2/2009.

Mai A, Cheng D, Bedford MT, Valente S, Nebbioso A, Perrone A, Brosch G, Sbardella G, De Bellis F, Miceli M, Altucci L. Epigenetic multiple ligands: Mixed histone/protein methyltransferase, acetyltransferase, and class III deacetylase (sirtuin) inhibitors. J Med Chem 51:2279-2290, 2008.

Mai A, Valente S, Cheng D, Perrone A, Ragno R, Simeoni S, Sbardella G, Brosch G, Nebbioso A, Conte M, Altucci L, and Bedford MT. Synthesis and biological validation of novel synthetic histone/protein methyltransferase inhibitors. Chem Med Chem 2:987-991, 2007.

Cheng D, Yadav N, King RW, Swanson MS, Weinstein EJ, Bedford MT. Small molecule regulators of protein arginine methyltransferases. J Biol Chem 279:23892-23899, 2004.

Shepley-McTaggart A, Sagum CA, Oliva I, Rybakovsky E, DiGuilio K, Liang J, Bedford MT, Cassel J, Sudol M, Mullin JM, Harty RN. SARS-CoV-2 Envelope (E) protein interacts with PDZ-domain-2 of host tight junction protein ZO1. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 9;16(6):e0251955.

Yu D, Horton JR, Yang J, Hajian T, Vedadi M, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Blumenthal RM, Zhang X, Cheng X. Human MettL3-MettL14 RNA adenine methyltransferase complex is active on double-stranded DNA containing lesions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jun 4:gkab460. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab460. Online ahead of print.

Chen J, Horton J, Sagum C, Zhou J, Cheng X, Bedford MT.Histone H3 N-terminal mimicry drives a novel network of methyl-effector interactions. Biochem J. 2021 May 28;478(10):1943-1958.

Shepley-McTaggart A, Schwoerer MP, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Jaladanki CK, Fan H, Cassel J, Harty RN. Ubiquitin Ligase SMURF2 Interacts with Filovirus VP40 and Promotes Egress of VP40 VLPs. Viruses. 2021 Feb 12;13(2):288.

Liang J, Ruthel G, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Jaladanki CK, Fan H, Freedman BD, Harty RN. Angiomotin Counteracts the Negative Regulatory Effect of Host WWOX on Viral PPxY-Mediated Egress. J Virol. 2021 Feb 3;95(8):e00121-21.

Vaughan RM, Kupai A, Foley CA, Sagum CA, Tibben BM, Eden HE, Tiedemann RL, Berryhill CA, Patel V, Shaw KM, Krajewski K, Strahl BD, Bedford MT, Frye SV, Dickson BM, Rothbart SB. The histone and non-histone methyllysine reader activities of the UHRF1 tandem Tudor domain are dispensable for the propagation of aberrant DNA methylation patterning in cancer cells. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2020 Oct 23;13(1):44.

Baumert R, Ji H, Paulucci-Holthauzen A, Wolfe A, Sagum C, Hodgson L, Arikkath J, Chen X, Bedford MT, Waxham MN, McCrea PD. Novel phospho-switch function of delta-catenin in dendrite development. J Cell Biol. 2020 Nov 2;219(11):e201909166.

Jain K, Fraser CS, Marunde MR, Parker MM, Sagum C, Burg JM, Hall N, Popova IK, Rodriguez KL, Vaidya A, Krajewski K, Keogh MC, Bedford MT, Strahl BD. Characterization of the plant homeodomain (PHD) reader family for their histone tail interactions. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2020 Jan 24;13(1):3.

Han Z, Dash S, Sagum CA, Ruthel G, Jaladanki CK, Berry CT, Schwoerer MP, Harty NM, Freedman BD, Bedford MT, Fan H, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Shtanko O, Harty RN. Modular mimicry and engagement of the Hippo pathway by Marburg virus VP40: Implications for filovirus biology and budding. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Jan 6;16(1):e1008231.

Wu X, Liu S, Sagum C, Chen J, Singh R, Chaturvedi A, Horton JR, Kashyap TR, Fushman D, Cheng X, Bedford MT, Wang B. Crosstalk between Lys63- and Lys11-polyubiquitin signaling at DNA damage sites is driven by Cezanne. Genes Dev. 2019 Dec 1;33(23-24):1702-1717.

Chen J, Sagum C, Bedford MT. Protein domain microarrays as a platform to decipher signaling pathways and the histone code. Methods. 2020 Dec 1;184:4-12. (Review)

Lamb KN, Bsteh D, Dishman SN, Moussa HF, Fan H, Stuckey JI, Norris JL, Cholensky SH, Li D, Wang J, Sagum C, Stanton BZ, Bedford MT, Pearce KH, Kenakin TP, Kireev DB, Wang GG, James LI, Bell O, Frye SV. Discovery and Characterization of a Cellular Potent Positive Allosteric Modulator of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 Chromodomain, CBX7. Cell Chem Biol. 2019 Oct 17;26(10):1365-1379.e22.

Roth L, Wakim J, Wasserman E, Shalev M, Arman E, Stein M, Brumfeld V, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Tuckermann J, Elson A. Phosphorylation of the phosphatase PTPROt at Tyr399 is a molecular switch that controls osteoclast activity and bone mass in vivo. Sci Signal. 2019 Jan 8;12(563):eaau0240.

Han Z, Schwoerer MP, Hicks P, Liang J, Ruthel G, Berry CT, Freedman BD, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Harty RN. Host Protein BAG3 is a Negative Regulator of Lassa VLP Egress. Diseases. 2018 Jul 13;6(3):64.

Suh JL, Watts B, Stuckey JI, Norris-Drouin JL, Cholensky SH, Dickson BM, An Y, Mathea S, Salah E, Knapp S, Khan A, Adams AT, Strahl BD, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, James LI, Kireev DB, Frye SV. Quantitative Characterization of Bivalent Probes for a Dual Bromodomain Protein, Transcription Initiation Factor TFIID Subunit 1. Biochemistry. 2018 Apr 10;57(14):2140-2149.

Carr SM, Munro S, Sagum CA, Fedorov O, Bedford MT, La Thangue NB. Tudor-domain protein PHF20L1 reads lysine methylated retinoblastoma tumour suppressor protein. Cell Death Differ. 2017 Dec;24(12):2139-2149.

Han Z, Sagum CA, Takizawa F, Ruthel G, Berry CT, Kong J, Sunyer JO, Freedman BD, Bedford MT, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Harty RN. Ubiquitin Ligase WWP1 Interacts with Ebola Virus VP40 To Regulate Egress. J Virol. 2017 Sep 27;91(20):e00812-17.

Gates LA, Shi J, Rohira AD, Feng Q, Zhu B, Bedford MT, Sagum CA, Jung SY, Qin J, Tsai MJ, Tsai SY, Li W, Foulds CE, O'Malley BW. Acetylation on histone H3 lysine 9 mediates a switch from transcription initiation to elongation. J Biol Chem. 2017 Sep 1;292(35):14456-14472.

Bae N, Viviano M, Su X, Lv J, Cheng D, Sagum C, Castellano S, Bai X, Johnson C, Khalil MI, Shen J, Chen K, Li H, Sbardella G, Bedford MT. Developing Spindlin1 small-molecule inhibitors by using protein microarrays. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Jul;13(7):750-756.

Shanle EK, Shinsky SA, Bridgers JB, Bae N, Sagum C, Krajewski K, Rothbart SB, Bedford MT, Strahl BD. Histone peptide microarray screen of chromo and Tudor domains defines new histone lysine methylation interactions. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2017 Mar 14;10:12.

Liang J, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Han Z, Harty RN. Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy Protein BAG3 Negatively Regulates Ebola and Marburg VP40-Mediated Egress. PLoS Pathog. 2017 Jan 11;13(1):e1006132.

Gates LA, Shi J, Rohira AD, Feng Q, Zhu B, Bedford MT, Sagum CA, Jung SY, Qin J, Tsai MJ, Tsai SY, Li W, Foulds CE, O'Malley BW. Acetylation on histone H3 lysine 9 mediates a switch from transcription initiation to elongation. J Biol Chem. 2017 Sep 1;292(35):14456-14472.

Bae N, Viviano M, Su X, Lv J, Cheng D, Sagum C, Castellano S, Bai X, Johnson C, Khalil MI, Shen J, Chen K, Li H, Sbardella G, Bedford MT. Developing Spindlin1 small-molecule inhibitors by using protein microarrays. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Jul;13(7):750-756.

Shanle EK, Shinsky SA, Bridgers JB, Bae N, Sagum C, Krajewski K, Rothbart SB, Bedford MT, Strahl BD. Histone peptide microarray screen of chromo and Tudor domains defines new histone lysine methylation interactions. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2017 Mar 14;10:12.

Liang J, Sagum CA, Bedford MT, Sidhu SS, Sudol M, Han Z, Harty RN. Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy Protein BAG3 Negatively Regulates Ebola and Marburg VP40-Mediated Egress. PLoS Pathog. 2017 Jan 11;13(1):e1006132.

Zhang X, Peng D, Xi Y, Yuan C, Sagum CA, Klein BJ, Tanaka K, Wen H, Kutateladze TG, Li W, Bedford MT, Shi X. G9a-mediated methylation of ERα links the PHF20/MOF histone acetyltransferase complex to hormonal gene expression. Nat Commun. 2016 Mar 10;7:10810. 

Stuckey JI, Dickson BM, Cheng N, Liu Y, Norris JL, Cholensky SH, Tempel W, Qin S, Huber KG, Sagum C, Black K, Li F, Huang XP, Roth BL, Baughman BM, Senisterra G, Pattenden SG, Vedadi M, Brown PJ, Bedford MT, Min J, Arrowsmith CH, James LI, Frye SV. A cellular chemical probe targeting the chromodomains of Polycomb repressive complex 1. Nat Chem Biol. 2016 Mar;12(3):180-7. 

Estève PO, Zhang G, Ponnaluri VK, Deepti K, Chin HG, Dai N, Sagum C, Black K, Corrêa IR Jr, Bedford MT, Cheng X, Pradhan S. Binding of 14-3-3 reader proteins to phosphorylated DNMT1 facilitates aberrant DNA methylation and gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Feb 29;44(4):1642-56. 

James LI, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Zhong N, Krichevsky L, Korboukh VK, Herold JM, MacNevin CJ, Norris JL, Sagum CA, Tempel W, Marcon E, Guo H, Gao C, Huang X, Kireev DB, Jin J, Greenblatt J, Roth B, Janzen WP, Brown PJ, Bedford MT, Arrowsmith CH, Frye SV. Discovery of a chemical probe for a methyl-lysine reader domain: L3MBTL3. Nat Chem Biol. 2016 Mar 18;11(3):722-8. 

Rothbart SB, Krajewski K, Nady N, Tempel W, Xue S, Badeaux AI, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Martinez JY, Bedford MT, Fuchs SM, Arrowsmith CH, Strahl BD. Association of UHRF1 with methylated H3K9 directs the maintenance of DNA methylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2012 Nov;19(11):1155-60. 

Cui G, Park S, Badeaux AI, Kim D, Lee J, Thompson JR, Yan F, Kaneko S, Yuan Z, Botuyan MV, Bedford MT, Cheng JQ, Mer G. PHF20 is an effector protein of p53 double lysine methylation that stabilizes and activates p53. Nat Struct Mol Biol 19(9):916-24, 2012.

Calnan DR, Webb AE, White JL, Stowe TR, Goswami T, Shi X, Espejo A, Bedford MT, Gozani O, Gygi SP, Brunet A. Methylation by Set9 modulates PoxO3 stability and transcriptional activity. Aging (Albany NY) 4(7):462-79, 2012.

Badeaux AI, Yang Y, Cardenas K, Vemulapalli V, Chen K, Kusewitt D, Richie E, Li W, Bedford MT. Loss of the methyl lysine effector protein PHF20 impacts the expression of genes regulated by the lysine acetyltransferase MOF. J Biol Chem 287(1):429-37, 2012.

Zhao H, Ho PC, Lo YH, Espejo A, Bedford MT, Hung MC, Wang SC. Interaction of proliferation cell nuclear antifen (PCNA) with c-Abl in cell proliferation and response to DNA damages in breast cancer. PLoS One 7(1):e29416, 2012.

Chang Y, Horton JR, Bedford MT, Zhang X, Cheng X. Structural Insights for MPP8 Chromodomain Interaction with Histone H3 Lysine 9: Potential Effect of Phosphorylation on Methyl-Lysine Binding. J Mol Biol. 2011 May 20;408(5):807-14.

Chang Y, Sun L, Kokura K, Horton JR, Fukuda M, Espejo A, Izumi V, Koomen JM, Bedford MT, Zhang X, Shinkai Y, Fang J, Cheng X. MPP8 mediates the interactions between DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a and H3K9 methyltransferase GLP/G9a. Nat Commun 2:533, 2011. 


Levy D, Kuo AJ, Chang Y, Schaefer U, Kitson C, Cheung P, Espejo A, Zee BM, Liu CL, Tangsombatvisit S, Tennen RI, Kuo AY, Tanjing S, Cheung R, Chua KF, Utz PJ, Shi X, Prinjha RK, Lee K, Garcia BA, Bedford MT, Tarakhovsky A, Cheng X, Gozani O. Lysine methylation of the NF-κB subunit RelA by SETD6 couples activity of the histone methyltransferase GLP at chromatin to tonic repression of NF-κB signaling. Nat Immunol. 2011 Jan;12(1):29-36.


Yang Y, Lu Y, Espejo A, Wu J, Xu W, Liang S, Bedford MT. TDRD3 is an effector molecule for arginine-methylated histone marks. Mol Cell. 2010 Dec 22;40(6):1016-23.


Kokura K, Sun L, Bedford MT, Fang J. Methyl-H3K9-binding protein MPP8 mediates E-cadherin gene silencing and promotes tumour cell motility and invasion. EMBO J. 2010 Nov 3;29(21):3673-87. 


Bua DJ, Kuo AJ, Cheung P, Liu CL, Migliori V, Espejo A, Casadio F, Bassi C, Amati B, Bedford MT, Guccione E, Gozani O. Epigenome microarray platform for proteome-wide dissection of chromatin-signaling networks. PLoS One. 2009 Aug 26;4(8):e6789.


Schotta G, Sengupta R, Kubicek S, Malin S, Kauer M, Callen E, Celeste A, Pagani M, Opravil S, De La Rosa-Velazquez IA, Espejo A, Bedford MT, Nussenzweig A, Busslinger M, Jenuwein T. A chromatin-wide transition to H4K20 monomethylation impairs genome integrity and programmed DNA rearrangements in the mouse. Genes Dev. 2008 Aug 1;22(15):2048-61.


Iberg AN, Espejo A, Cheng D, Kim D, Michaud-Levesque J, Richard S, Bedford MT. Arginine methylation of the histone H3 tail impedes effector binding. J Biol Chem 2008 Feb 8;283(6):3006-3010..


Huang J, Sengupta R, Espejo AB, Lee MG, Dorsey JA, Richter M, Opravil S, Shiekhattar R, Bedford MT, Jenuwein T, Berger SL. p53 is regulated by the lysine demethylase LSD1. Nature 2007 Sep 6;449(7158):105-8.


Shi X, Kachirskaia I, Walter KL, Kuo JH, Lake A, Davrazou F, Chan SM, Martin DG, Fingerman IM, Briggs SD, Howe L, Utz PJ, Kutateladze TG, Lugovskoy AA, Bedford MT, Gozani O. Proteome-wide analysis in S. cerevisiae identifies several PHD fingers as novel direct and selective binding modules of histone H3 methylated at either lysine 4 or lysine 36. J Biol Chem. 2007 Jan 26;282(4):2450-5. 


Kim J, Daniel J, Espejo A, Lake A, Krishna M, Xia L, Zhang Y, Bedford MT. Tudor, MBT and chromo domains gauge the degree of lysine methylation. EMBO Rep. 2006 Apr;7(4):397-403.


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A. Espejo and M. T. Bedford. Protein-Domain Microarrays. Methods Mol Biol. 2004;264:173-81.


Espejo A, Cote J, Bednarek A, Richard S, Bedford MT. A protein-domain microarray identifies novel protein-protein interactions. Biochem J. 2002 Nov 1;367(Pt 3):697-702


Liu MY, Cai CS, Espejo A, Bedford MT, Walker CL. 14-3-3 proteins interact with the tumor suppressor tuberin at AKT phosphorylation site(s). Cancer Research. 2002 Nov 15;62(22):6475-80.