Emeleeta Paintsil

Graduate Student

Locations

Biochemistry

Contact Information

epaintsil@mcw.edu

Biography

Mentor: Emma Morrison, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2020
Previous Education: University of Iowa

Research Interests

Studying mechanisms of chromatin regulation at the mononucleosome level with a focus on the centromeric H3 histone variant Centromeric Protein-A (CENPA). Research interests: Nucleosome structure, dynamics, and regulation.

Publications

Paintsil EA, Morrison EA. Preparation of Recombinant Histones and Widom 601 DNA for Reconstitution of Nucleosome Core Particles. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2599:163-175. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2847-8_12. PMID: 36427149.

Hammonds EF, Harwig MC, Paintsil EA, Tillison EA, Hill RB, Morrison EA. Histone H3 and H4 tails play an important role in nucleosome phase separation. Biophys Chem. 2022 Apr;283:106767. doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2022.106767. Epub 2022 Feb 2. PMID: 35158124; PMCID: PMC8963862.

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