Lu Bai
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Professor of Physics

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206B Huck Life Sciences
University Park, PA - lub15@psu.edu
- 814-863-4824
Research Summary
Single cell / single molecule study of chromatin and gene regulation.
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Publication Tags
Genes Nucleosomes Gene Expression Genome Transcription Factors Yeasts Yeast Saccharomycetales Thermodynamics Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Time Fluorescence Microscopy Cells Chromosomes Proteins Fluorescence Noise Compensation And Redress Promoter Regions Modeling Dissociation Dna Cell Positioning GenomicsMost Recent Papers
Chemically Induced Chromosomal Interaction (CICI) method to study chromosome dynamics and its biological roles
Manyu Du, Fan Zou, Yi Li, Yujie Yan, Lu Bai, 2022, Nature Communications
Thermodynamic modeling of genome-wide nucleosome depleted regions in yeast
Hungyo Kharerin, Lu Bai, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
Ash1 and Tup1 dependent repression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HO promoter requires activator-dependent nucleosome eviction.
Emily J. Parnell, Timothy J. Parnell, Chao Yan, Lu Bai, David J. Stillman, 2020, PLoS Genetics on p. e1009133
A role for mediator core in limiting coactivator recruitment in saccharomyces cerevisiae
Robert M. Yarrington, Yaxin Yu, Chao Yan, Lu Bai, David J. Stillman, 2020, Genetics on p. 407-420
Existence, transition, and propagation of intermediate silencing states in ribosomal DNA
Fan Zou, Manyu Du, Hengye Chen, Lu Baia, 2019, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Enhancement of LacI binding in vivo
Manyu Du, Seth Kodner, Lu Bai, 2019, Nucleic Acids Research on p. 9609-9618
Using time-lapse fluorescence microscopy to study gene regulation
Fan Zou, Lu Bai, 2019, ImmunoMethods on p. 138-145
Dissociation rate compensation mechanism for budding yeast pioneer transcription factors
Benjamin T. Donovan, Hengye Chen, Caroline Jipa, Lu Bai, Michael G. Poirier, 2019, eLife
Using time-lapse fluorescence microscopy to study gene regulation.
F Zou, Lu Bai, 2018, Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
Systematic Study of Nucleosome-Displacing Factors in Budding Yeast
Chao Yan, Hengye Chen, Lu Bai, 2018, Molecular Cell on p. 294-305.e4
Most-Cited Papers
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Jie Ma, Lu Bai, Michelle D. Wang, 2013, Science on p. 1580-1583
Kinetic competition between elongation rate and binding of NELF controls promoter-proximal pausing
Jian Li, Yingyun Liu, Ho Sung Rhee, Saikat Kumar B. Ghosh, Lu Bai, B. Franklin Pugh, David S. Gilmour, 2013, Molecular Cell on p. 711-722
Modulation of fluorescent protein chromophores to detect protein aggregation with turn-on fluorescence
Yu Liu, Charles H. Wolstenholme, Gregory C. Carter, Hongbin Liu, Hang Hu, Leeann S. Grainger, Kun Miao, Matthew Fares, Conner A. Hoelzel, Hemant P. Yennawar, Gang Ning, Manyu Du, Lu Bai, Xiaosong Li, Xin Zhang, 2018, Journal of the American Chemical Society on p. 7381-7384
Systematic Study of Nucleosome-Displacing Factors in Budding Yeast
Chao Yan, Hengye Chen, Lu Bai, 2018, Molecular Cell on p. 294-305.e4
Dissociation rate compensation mechanism for budding yeast pioneer transcription factors
Benjamin T. Donovan, Hengye Chen, Caroline Jipa, Lu Bai, Michael G. Poirier, 2019, eLife
Stochastic expression and epigenetic memory at the yeast HO promoter
Qian Zhang, Youngdae Yoon, Yaxin Yu, Emily J. Parnell, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Michael M. Mwangi, Frederick R. Cross, David J. Stillman, Lu Bai, 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 14012-14017
Decoupling of divergent gene regulation by sequence-specific DNA binding factors
Chao Yan, Daoyong Zhang, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Michael M. Mwangi, Lu Bai, 2015, Nucleic Acids Research on p. 7292-7305
Regulation of cell-to-cell variability in divergent gene expression
Chao Yan, Shuyang Wu, Christopher Pocetti, Lu Bai, 2016, Nature Communications
Interallelic interaction and gene regulation In budding yeast
Daoyong Zhang, Lu Bai, 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 4428-4433
Three distinct mechanisms of long-distance modulation of gene expression in yeast
Manyu Du, Qian Zhang, Lu Bai, 2017, PLoS Genetics on p. e1006736