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Dharmadhikari AV*, Abad MA*, Khan S*, Maroofian R, Sands TT, Ullah F, Samejima I, Shen Y, Wear MA, Moore KE, Kondakova E, Mitina N, Schaub T, Lee GK, Umandap CH, Berger SM, Iglesias AD, Popp B, Abou Jamra R, Gabriel H, Rentas S, Rippert AL, Gray C, Izumi K, Conlin LK, Koboldt DC, Mosher TM, Hickey SE, Albert DVF, Norwood H, Lewanda AF, Dai H, Liu P, Mitani T, Marafi D, Eker HK, Pehlivan D, Posey JE, Lippa NC, Vena N, Heinzen EL, Goldstein DB, Mignot C, de Sainte Agathe JM, Al-Sannaa NA, Zamani M, Sadeghian S, Azizimalamiri R, Seifia T, Zaki MS, Abdel-Salam GMH, Abdel-Hamid MS, Alabdi L, Alkuraya FS, Dawoud H, Lofty A, Bauer P, Zifarelli G, Afzal E, Zafar F, Efthymiou S, Gossett D, Towne MC, Yeneabat R, Perez-Duenas B, Cazurro-Gutierrez A, Verdura E, Cantarin-Extremera V, Marques ADV, Helwak A, Tollervey D, Wontakal SN, Aggarwal VS, Rosenfeld JA, Tarabykin V, Ohta S, Lupski JR, Houlden H, Earnshaw WC, Davis EE#, Jeyaprakash AA#, Liao J#. RNA methyltransferase SPOUT1/CENP-32 links mitotic spindle organization with the neurodevelopmental disorder SpADMiSS. Nat Commun. 2025 Feb 17;16(1):1703. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56876-w. PMID: 39962046

Pre-print PMID: 38260255

O'Donnell MR#, Grinsztejn B, Cummings MJ, Justman JE, Lamb MR, Eckhardt CM, Philip NM, Cheung YK, Gupta V, João E, Pilotto JH, Diniz MP, Cardoso SW, Abrams D, Rajagopalan KN, Borden SE, Wolf A, Sidi LC, Vizzoni A, Veloso VG, Bitan ZC, Scotto DE, Meyer BJ, Jacobson SD, Kantor A, Mishra N, Chauhan LV, Stone EF, Dei Zotti F, La Carpia F, Hudson KE, Ferrara SA, Schwartz J, Stotler BA, Lin WW, Wontakal SN, Shaz B, Briese T, Hod EA, Spitalnik SL, Eisenberger A, Lipkin WI. A randomized double-blind controlled trial of convalescent plasma in adults with severe COVID-19. J Clin Invest. 2021 Jul 1;131(13):e150646. doi: 10.1172/JCI150646. PMID: 33974559

Pre-print: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.12.21253373

Weisberg SP*, Connors TJ*, Zhu Y, Baldwin MR, Lin WH, Wontakal S, Szabo PA, Wells SB, Dogra P, Gray J, Idzikowski E, Stelitano D, Bovier FT, Davis-Porada J, Matsumoto R, Poon MML, Chait M, Mathieu C, Horvat B, Decimo D, Hudson KE, Zotti FD, Bitan ZC, La Carpia F, Ferrara SA, Mace E, Milner J, Moscona A, Hod E, Porotto M#, Farber DL#. Distinct antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in children and adults across the COVID-19 clinical spectrum. Nat Immunol. 2021 Jan;22(1):25-31. doi: 10.1038/s41590-020-00826-9. Epub 2020 Nov 5. PMID: 33154590

Pre-print: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.12.20151068

Lu X, Wontakal SN, Kavi H, Kim BJ, Guzzardo PM, Emelyanov AV, Xu N, Hannon GJ, Zavadil J, Fyodorov DV#, Skoultchi AI#. Drosophila H1 regulates the genetic activity of heterochromatin by recruitment of Su(var)3-9. Science. 2013 Apr 5;340(6128):78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1234654. PMID: 23559249

Yu Y, Mo Y, Ebenezer D, Bhattacharyya S, Liu H, Sundaravel S, Giricz O, Wontakal S, Cartier J, Caces B, Artz A, Nischal S, Bhagat T, Bathon K, Maqbool S, Gligich O, Suzuki M, Steidl U, Godley L, Skoultchi A, Greally J, Wickrema A#, Verma A#. High resolution methylome analysis reveals widespread functional hypomethylation during adult human erythropoiesis. J Biol Chem. 2013 Mar 29;288(13):8805-14. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.423756. Epub 2013 Jan 10. PMID: 23306203

Wontakal SN*, Guo X*, Smith C, MacCarthy T, Bresnick EH, Bergman A, Snyder MP, Weissman SM#, Zheng D#, Skoultchi AI#. A core erythroid transcriptional network is repressed by a master regulator of myelo-lymphoid differentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Mar 6;109(10):3832-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1121019109. Epub 2012 Feb 22. PMID: 22357756

Wontakal SN*, Guo X*, Will B, Shi M, Raha D, Mahajan MC, Weissman S, Snyder M, Steidl U, Zheng D#, Skoultchi AI#. A large gene network in immature erythroid cells is controlled by the myeloid and B cell transcriptional regulator PU.1. PLoS Genet. 2011 Jun;7(6):e1001392. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001392. Epub 2011 Jun 9. PMID: 21695229

Papetti M, Wontakal SN, Stopka T, Skoultchi AI#. GATA-1 directly regulates p21 gene expression during erythroid differentiation. Cell Cycle. 2010 May 15;9(10):1972-80. doi: 10.4161/cc.9.10.11602. Epub 2010 May 15. PMID: 20495378

Article accompanied with two research highlights: PMID: 20505326 and 20559028

Choe KS*, Ujhelly O*, Wontakal SN*, Skoultchi AI#. PU.1 directly regulates cdk6 gene expression, linking the cell proliferation and differentiation programs in erythroid cells. J Biol Chem. 2010 Jan 29;285(5):3044-52. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M109.077727. Epub 2009 Dec 2. PMID: 19955566

McCord R, Pierce M, Xie J, Wonkatal S, Mickel C, Vershon AK#. Rfm1, a novel tethering factor required to recruit the Hst1 histone deacetylase for repression of middle sporulation genes. Mol Cell Biol. 2003 Mar;23(6):2009-16. doi: 10.1128/MCB.23.6.2009-2016.2003. PMID: 12612074

Reviews/Opinion/Perspectives/Case Reports:

Wontakal SN*#, Bortz RH 3rd*, Lin WW*, Gendlina I, Fox AS, Hod EA, Chandran K, Prystowsky MB, Weiss LM, Spitalnik SL. Approaching the Interpretation of Discordances in SARS-CoV-2 Testing. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 23;8(7):ofab144. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab144. PMID: 34316498

DeSimone RA#, Wontakal SN, Lyashchenko AK, Schwartz J. Acute mechanical hemolysis as a complication of extracorporeal photopheresis in a low-weight child. J Clin Apher. 2017 Dec;32(6):571-573. doi: 10.1002/jca.21520. Epub 2016 Nov 28. PMID: 27891662.

Hooven TA, Hooper EM, Wontakal SN, Francis RO, Sahni R, Lee MT. Diagnosis of a rare fetal haemoglobinopathy in the age of next-generation sequencing. BMJ Case Rep. 2016 Apr 19;2016:10.1136/bcr-2016-215193. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2016-215193. PMID: 27095814

Maxson ME#, Volpi SA#, Wontakal SN#. From Bio 101 to Pillars of Biology: A Pedagogical Experiment. Einstein J Biol Med. 2011 Mar 9;27(2):86-93. Epub 2012 Mar 9. PMID: 22468141

Chahwan R#, Wontakal SN#, Roa S#. The multidimensional nature of epigenetic information and its role in disease. Discov Med. 2011 Mar;11(58):233-43. PMID: 21447282.