Ahmed Amine Mergani, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Hooper Foundation
School of Medicine

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Histone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseDirected Molecular EvolutionHistonesTrans-ActivatorsProtozoan ProteinsSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsAntigens, ProtozoanCell Cycle ProteinsHeterochromatinSaccharomyces cerevisiaeGenome, MitochondrialNucleosomesMethyltransferasesMalaria, FalciparumChromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone

• Phosphorylation of HP1/Swi6 relieves competition with Suv39/Clr4 on nucleosomes and enables H3K9 trimethyl spreading.
  Nucleic acids research 2025 Kennedy DR, Lemière J, Amine AAA, Martin EW, Tan C, Simental E, Braxton J, Maxwell RA, Al-Sady B
• Regulation of the heterochromatin spreading reaction by trans-acting factors.
  Open biology 2023 Hamali B, Amine AAA, Al-Sady B
• Rapid evolutionary repair by secondary perturbation of a primary disrupted transcriptional network.
  EMBO reports 2023 Hsu PC, Cheng YH, Liao CW, Litan RRR, Jhou YT, Opoc FJG, Amine AAA, Leu JY
• Plastic Rewiring of Sef1 Transcriptional Networks and the Potential of Nonfunctional Transcription Factor Binding in Facilitating Adaptive Evolution.
  Molecular biology and evolution 2021 Hsu PC, Lu TC, Hung PH, Jhou YT, Amine AAA, Liao CW, Leu JY
• Experimental evolution improves mitochondrial genome quality control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and extends its replicative lifespan.
  Current biology : CB 2021 Amine AAA, Liao CW, Hsu PC, Opoc FJG, Leu JY
• Distribution of erythrocyte binding antigen 175 (EBA-175) gene dimorphic alleles in Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from Sudan.
  BMC infectious diseases 2013 Adam AA, Amine AA, Hassan DA, Omer WH, Nour BY, Jebakumar AZ, Ibrahim ME, Abdulhadi NH, Mohamed HS
• Malaria risk mapping for control in the republic of Sudan.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2012 Noor AM, ElMardi KA, Abdelgader TM, Patil AP, Amine AAA, Bakhiet S, Mukhtar MM, Snow RW