Publications

Phenotypic plasticity as a facilitator of microbial evolution

Emerson Santiago, David F. Moreno, and Murat Acar
Environmental Epigenetics 8(1), 1-9 (2022)

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Phenotypic selection during laboratory evolution of yeast populations leads to a genome-wide sustainable chromatin compaction shift

David F. Moreno and Murat Acar
Frontiers in Microbiology 13:974055 (2022)

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Modeling aging and its impact on cellular function and organismal behavior

Emerson Santiago, David F. Moreno, and Murat Acar
Experimental Gerontology 155, 111577 (2021)

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A yeast-optimized single-cell transcriptomics platform elucidates how mycophenolic acid and guanine alter global mRNA levels

Guste Urbonaite, Jimmy T. H. Lee, Ping Liu, Guillermo E. Parada, Martin Hemberg, and Murat Acar
Communications Biology 4, 822 (2021)

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Chromatin regulatory genes differentially interact in networks to facilitate distinct GAL1 activity and noise profiles

David F. Moreno and Murat Acar
Current Genetics 67, 267-281 (2021)

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Epigenetic mechanisms contribute to evolutionary adaptation of gene network activity under environmental selection

Xinyue Luo, Ruijie Song, David F. Moreno, Hong-Yeoul Ryu, Mark Hochstrasser, and Murat Acar
Cell Reports 33, 108306 (2020)

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Characterization of the impact of GMP/GDP synthesis inhibition on replicative lifespan extension in yeast

Ping Liu, Ethan A. Sarnoski, Tolga T. Olmez, Thomas Z. Young, and Murat Acar
Current Genetics doi.org/10.1007/s00294-020-01068-w (2020)

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Quantitative insights into age-associated DNA-repair inefficiency in single cells

Thomas Z. Young, Ping Liu, Guste Urbonaite, and Murat Acar
Cell Reports 28, 2220-2230 (2019)

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Stochastic modeling of aging cells reveals how damage accumulation, repair, and cell-division asymmetry affect clonal senescence and population fitness

Ruijie Song and Murat Acar
BMC Bioinformatics 20:391 (2019)

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Insights into bidirectional gene expression control using the canonical GAL1/GAL10 promoter

Gregory L. Elison, Yuan Xue, Ruijie Song, and Murat Acar
Cell Reports 25, 737-748 (2018)

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The systems biology of single-cell aging

Ruijie Song, Ethan A. Sarnoski, and Murat Acar
iScience 7, 154-169 (2018)

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Fundamental characteristics of single-cell aging in diploid yeast

Ethan A. Sarnoski, Ruijie Song, Ege Ertekin, Noelle Koonce, and Murat Acar
iScience 7, 96-109 (2018)

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Multi-component gene network design as a survival strategy in diverse environments

Xinyue Luo, Ruijie Song, and Murat Acar
BMC Systems Biology 12:85 (2018)

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Live-cell imaging of chromatin condensation dynamics by CRISPR

Yuan Xue and Murat Acar
iScience 4, 216-235 (2018)

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Scarless genome editing: progress towards understanding genotype-phenotype relationships

Gregory L. Elison and Murat Acar
Current Genetics (2018) doi.org/10.1007/s00294-018-0850-8

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Mechanisms for the epigenetic inheritance of stress response in single cells

Yuan Xue and Murat Acar
Current Genetics (2018) doi.org/10.1007/s00294-018-0849-1

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Heritable stress response dynamics revealed by single-cell genealogy

Meenakshi Chatterjee and Murat Acar
Science Advances 4, e1701775 (2018)

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The generational scalability of single-cell replicative aging

Ping Liu and Murat Acar
Science Advances 4, eaao4666 (2018)

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A high-throughput screen for yeast replicative lifespan identifies lifespan-extending compounds

Ethan A. Sarnoski, Ping Liu, and Murat Acar
Cell Reports 21, 2639-2646 (2017)

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Noise reduction as an emergent property of single-cell aging

Ping Liu, Ruijie Song, Gregory L. Elison, Weilin Peng, and Murat Acar
Nature Communications 8:680 (2017)

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A precise genome editing method reveals insights into the activity of eukaryotic promoters

Gregory L. Elison, Ruijie Song, and Murat Acar
Cell Reports 18, 275-286 (2017)

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Noise reduction facilitated by dosage compensation in gene networks

Weilin Peng, Ruijie Song, and Murat Acar
Nature Communications 7:12959 (2016)

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A cell size- and cell cycle-aware stochastic model for predicting time-dynamic gene network activity in individual cells

Ruijie Song, Weilin Peng, Ping Liu, and Murat Acar
BMC Systems Biology 9:91 (2015)

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Yeast replicator: a high-throughput multiplexed microfluidics platform for automated measurements of single-cell aging

Ping Liu, Thomas Z. Young, and Murat Acar
Cell Reports 13:634-644 (2015)

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Evolution of gene network activity by tuning the strength of negative-feedback regulation

Weilin Peng, Ping Liu, Yuan Xue, and Murat Acar
Nature Communications 6:6226 (2015)

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Network-dosage compensation topologies as recurrent network motifs in natural gene networks

Ruijie Song, Ping Liu, and Murat Acar
BMC Systems Biology 8:69 (2014)

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A general mechanism for network-dosage compensation in gene circuits

Murat Acar, Bernardo F. Pando, Frances H. Arnold, Michael B. Elowitz, and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Science 329, 1656-1660 (2010)

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Stochastic switching as a survival strategy in fluctuating environments

Murat Acar, Jerome T. Mettetal, and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Nature Genetics 40, 471-475 (2008)

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Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions

Murat Acar, Attila Becskei, and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Nature 435, 228-232 (2005)

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Photodissociation spectroscopy of Al+ -acetaldehyde

Wenyun Lu, Murat Acar, and Paul D. Kleiber
Journal of Chemical Physics 116, 4847-4852 (2002)

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