Zachary Steinhart, PhD
Assistant Professor
Otolaryngology
School of Medicine

Publications (23)

Top publication keywords:
CRISPR-Cas SystemsWnt3A ProteinCarcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalCell Cycle CheckpointsDishevelled ProteinsOncogene ProteinsCell CommunicationFrizzled ReceptorsF-Box-WD Repeat-Containing Protein 7Wnt ProteinsColorectal NeoplasmsWnt Signaling Pathwaybeta CateninHeparan Sulfate ProteoglycansAntibodies

• Systematic discovery of pro- and anti-HIV host factors in primary human CD4+ T cells.
  Cell 2026 Rathore U, Dugan E, Thornton H, Kumar VE, Dajani R, Burdick RC, Young JM, Steinhart Z, Lao R, Delviks-Frankenberry KA, Choi W, Henriques WS, Echeverria I, Dann E, Dureja I, Pathak N, Arce MM, McKetney…
• Virus-like particles enable targeted gene engineering and pooled CRISPR screening in primary human myeloid cells.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Jung H, Devant P, Ching C, Ota M, Hamilton J, Steinhart Z, Ngo W, Sandoval L, Jung JH, Xu D, An M, Urs E, Chen PA, Allain V, Tada T, Nuñez JK, Landau NR, Liu DR, Eyquem J, Doudna JA, Marson A, …
• Novel regulators of heparan sulfate proteoglycans modulate cellular uptake of α-synuclein fibrils.
  Communications biology 2025 Vanderperre B, Muraleedharan A, Dorion MF, Larroquette F, Del Cid Pellitero E, Rajakulendran N, Chen CX, Larivière R, Michaud-Tardif C, Goiran T, Chidiac R, Lipuma D, MacLeod G, Thomas R, Wang Z, …
• Central control of dynamic gene circuits governs T cell rest and activation.
  Nature 2024 Arce MM, Umhoefer JM, Arang N, Kasinathan S, Freimer JW, Steinhart Z, Shen H, Pham MTN, Ota M, Wadhera A, Dajani R, Dorovskyi D, Chen YY, Liu Q, Zhou Y, Swaney DL, Obernier K, Shy BR, Carnevale J, …
• Systematic decoding of cis gene regulation defines context-dependent control of the multi-gene costimulatory receptor locus in human T cells.
  Nature genetics 2024 Mowery CT, Freimer JW, Chen Z, Casaní-Galdón S, Umhoefer JM, Arce MM, Gjoni K, Daniel B, Sandor K, Gowen BG, Nguyen V, Simeonov DR, Garrido CM, Curie GL, Schmidt R, Steinhart Z, Satpathy AT, Pollard …

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• Bidirectional epigenetic editing reveals hierarchies in gene regulation.
  Nature biotechnology 2024 Pacalin NM, Steinhart Z, Shi Q, Belk JA, Dorovskyi D, Kraft K, Parker KR, Shy BR, Marson A, Chang HY
• An evolved AAV variant enables efficient genetic engineering of murine T cells.
  Cell 2023 Nyberg WA, Ark J, To A, Clouden S, Reeder G, Muldoon JJ, Chung JY, Xie WH, Allain V, Steinhart Z, Chang C, Talbot A, Kim S, Rosales A, Havlik LP, Pimentel H, Asokan A, Eyquem J
• SCFFBXW7 regulates G2-M progression through control of CCNL1 ubiquitination.
  EMBO reports 2022 O'Brien S, Kelso S, Steinhart Z, Orlicky S, Mis M, Kim Y, Lin S, Sicheri F, Angers S
• CRISPR activation and interference screens decode stimulation responses in primary human T cells.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022 Schmidt R, Steinhart Z, Layeghi M, Freimer JW, Bueno R, Nguyen VQ, Blaeschke F, Ye CJ, Marson A
• Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serology assays reveals a range of test performance.
  Nature biotechnology 2020 Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong …
• Copper bioavailability is a KRAS-specific vulnerability in colorectal cancer.
  Nature communications 2020 Aubert L, Nandagopal N, Steinhart Z, Lavoie G, Nourreddine S, Berman J, Saba-El-Leil MK, Papadopoli D, Lin S, Hart T, Macleod G, Topisirovic I, Gaboury L, Fahrni CJ, Schramek D, Meloche S, Angers S, …
• Single-molecule dynamics of Dishevelled at the plasma membrane and Wnt pathway activation.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 Ma W, Chen M, Kang H, Steinhart Z, Angers S, He X, Kirschner MW
• Test performance evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serological assays.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong …
• IPO11 mediates βcatenin nuclear import in a subset of colorectal cancers.
  The Journal of cell biology 2020 Mis M, O'Brien S, Steinhart Z, Lin S, Hart T, Moffat J, Angers S
• Tailored tetravalent antibodies potently and specifically activate Wnt/Frizzled pathways in cells, organoids and mice.
  eLife 2019 Tao Y, Mis M, Blazer L, Ustav M, Steinhart Z, Chidiac R, Kubarakos E, O'Brien S, Wang X, Jarvik N, Patel N, Adams J, Moffat J, Angers S, Sidhu SS
• Genome-Wide CRISPR-Cas9 Screens Expose Genetic Vulnerabilities and Mechanisms of Temozolomide Sensitivity in Glioblastoma Stem Cells.
  Cell reports 2019 MacLeod G, Bozek DA, Rajakulendran N, Monteiro V, Ahmadi M, Steinhart Z, Kushida MM, Yu H, Coutinho FJ, Cavalli FMG, Restall I, Hao X, Hart T, Luchman HA, Weiss S, Dirks PB, Angers S
• A synthetic anti-Frizzled antibody engineered for broadened specificity exhibits enhanced anti-tumor properties.
  mAbs 2018 Pavlovic Z, Adams JJ, Blazer LL, Gakhal AK, Jarvik N, Steinhart Z, Robitaille M, Mascall K, Pan J, Angers S, Moffat J, Sidhu SS
• Wnt signaling in development and tissue homeostasis.
  Development (Cambridge, England) 2018 Steinhart Z, Angers S
• Corrigendum: Genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal a Wnt-FZD5 signaling circuit as a druggable vulnerability of RNF43-mutant pancreatic tumors.
  Nature medicine 2017 Steinhart Z, Pavlovic Z, Chandrashekhar M, Hart T, Wang X, Zhang X, Robitaille M, Brown KR, Jaksani S, Overmeer R, Boj SF, Adams J, Pan J, Clevers H, Sidhu S, Moffat J, Angers S
• Genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal a Wnt-FZD5 signaling circuit as a druggable vulnerability of RNF43-mutant pancreatic tumors.
  Nature medicine 2016 Steinhart Z, Pavlovic Z, Chandrashekhar M, Hart T, Wang X, Zhang X, Robitaille M, Brown KR, Jaksani S, Overmeer R, Boj SF, Adams J, Pan J, Clevers H, Sidhu S, Moffat J, Angers S
• Essential role of the Dishevelled DEP domain in a Wnt-dependent human-cell-based complementation assay.
  Journal of cell science 2016 Gammons MV, Rutherford TJ, Steinhart Z, Angers S, Bienz M
• Dishevelled is a NEK2 kinase substrate controlling dynamics of centrosomal linker proteins.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 Cervenka I, Valnohova J, Bernatik O, Harnos J, Radsetoulal M, Sedova K, Hanakova K, Potesil D, Sedlackova M, Salasova A, Steinhart Z, Angers S, Schulte G, Hampl A, Zdrahal Z, Bryja V
• High-Resolution CRISPR Screens Reveal Fitness Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities.
  Cell 2015 Hart T, Chandrashekhar M, Aregger M, Steinhart Z, Brown KR, MacLeod G, Mis M, Zimmermann M, Fradet-Turcotte A, Sun S, Mero P, Dirks P, Sidhu S, Roth FP, Rissland OS, Durocher D, Angers S, Moffat J