Desiree Tillo

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Desiree Tillo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Desiree Tillo has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Oncology and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Desiree Tillo's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Desiree Tillo is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Desiree Tillo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. Desiree Tillo's co-authors include Timothy R. Hughes, Eran Segal, N. Kaplan, Yair Field, Yvonne Fondufe‐Mittendorf, Andrea J. Gossett, Jason D. Lieb, Jonathan Widom, Irene K. Moore and Corey Nislow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Desiree Tillo

27 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The DNA-encoded nucleosome organization of a eukaryotic genome

2008 908 citations N. Kaplan, Irene K. Moore et al. Nature profile →
A high-resolution atlas of nucleosome occupancy in yeast

2007 644 citations William Lee, Desiree Tillo et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Desiree Tillo United States	14	2.1k	382	220	83	77	27	2.3k
Camilla Sjögren Sweden	24	2.1k 1.0×	406 1.1×	239 1.1×	80 1.0×	120 1.6×	34	2.4k
Hiroaki Tachiwana Japan	26	2.2k 1.0×	760 2.0×	186 0.8×	62 0.7×	116 1.5×	50	2.4k
Bryan J. Venters United States	15	2.1k 1.0×	367 1.0×	181 0.8×	97 1.2×	126 1.6×	29	2.3k
Luís Aragón United Kingdom	29	2.9k 1.4×	676 1.8×	338 1.5×	153 1.8×	113 1.5×	54	3.1k
William Selleck United States	12	1.8k 0.9×	192 0.5×	177 0.8×	52 0.6×	78 1.0×	12	1.9k
Janet Leatherwood United States	24	1.8k 0.9×	214 0.6×	293 1.3×	47 0.6×	63 0.8×	35	2.0k
Jordi Torres‐Rosell Spain	22	1.7k 0.8×	340 0.9×	156 0.7×	40 0.5×	95 1.2×	33	1.8k
Janis Werner United States	11	2.1k 1.0×	160 0.4×	169 0.8×	114 1.4×	76 1.0×	11	2.2k
Rohinton T. Kamakaka United States	30	3.6k 1.7×	811 2.1×	377 1.7×	96 1.2×	139 1.8×	57	3.8k
Björn Schwalb Germany	22	2.4k 1.2×	172 0.5×	249 1.1×	88 1.1×	268 3.5×	29	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Desiree Tillo

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Patel, Chandni, Parijat Sarkar, Hermann Broder Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Direct ionic stress sensing and mitigation by the transcription factor NFAT5. Science Advances. 11(8). eadu3194–eadu3194. 1 indexed citations

West, Robert R., Thomas R. Bauer, Laura M. Tuschong, et al.. (2023). A novel GATA2 distal enhancer mutation results in MonoMAC syndrome in 2 second cousins. Blood Advances. 7(20). 6351–6363. 6 indexed citations

Tillo, Desiree, et al.. (2023). Decoding complexity in biomolecular recognition of DNA i-motifs with microarrays. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(22). 12020–12030. 16 indexed citations

Wong-Rolle, Abigail, Qiang Dong, Prajan Divakar, et al.. (2022). Spatial meta-transcriptomics reveal intratumor bacterial association with lung cancer cells showing a distinct oncogenic signature.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 40(16_suppl). 8531–8531. 2 indexed citations

Olbrich, Teresa, María Vega-Sendino, Desiree Tillo, et al.. (2021). CTCF is a barrier for 2C-like reprogramming. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4856–4856. 44 indexed citations

Tillo, Desiree, et al.. (2021). REL Domain of NFATc2 Binding to Five Types of DNA Using Protein Binding Microarrays. ACS Omega. 6(6). 4147–4154. 2 indexed citations

Tillo, Desiree, Robert E. Boer, Nima Assad, et al.. (2020). Custom DNA Microarrays Reveal Diverse Binding Preferences of Proteins and Small Molecules to Thousands of G-Quadruplexes. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(4). 925–935. 41 indexed citations

Tillo, Desiree, et al.. (2020). bZIP Dimers CREB1, ATF2, Zta, ATF3|cJun, and cFos|cJun Prefer to Bind to Some Double-Stranded DNA Sequences Containing 5-Formylcytosine and 5-Carboxylcytosine. Biochemistry. 59(38). 3529–3540. 1 indexed citations

Assad, Nima, et al.. (2019). The bZIP mutant CEBPB (V285A) has sequence specific DNA binding propensities similar to CREB1. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1862(4). 486–492. 4 indexed citations

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Tillo, Desiree, Nima Assad, Christopher D. Deppmann, et al.. (2018). Replacing C189 in the bZIP domain of Zta with S, T, V, or A changes DNA binding specificity to four types of double-stranded DNA. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 501(4). 905–912. 6 indexed citations

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Tillo, Desiree, Syed Khund-Sayeed, Ximiao He, et al.. (2017). The Epstein-Barr Virus B-ZIP Protein Zta Recognizes Specific DNA Sequences Containing 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine. Biochemistry. 56(47). 6200–6210. 13 indexed citations

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Tillo, Desiree, Sanjit Mukherjee, & Charles Vinson. (2016). Inheritance of Cytosine Methylation. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 231(11). 2346–2352. 11 indexed citations

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He, Ximiao, Desiree Tillo, Jeff Vierstra, et al.. (2015). Methylated Cytosines Mutate to Transcription Factor Binding Sites that Drive Tetrapod Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(11). 3155–3169. 18 indexed citations

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He, Ximiao, Raghunath Chatterjee, Desiree Tillo, et al.. (2014). Nucleosomes are enriched at the boundaries of hypomethylated regions (HMRs) in mouse dermal fibroblasts and keratinocytes. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 7(1). 34–34. 2 indexed citations

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Zalckvar, Einat, Christina Paulus, Desiree Tillo, et al.. (2013). Nucleosome maps of the human cytomegalovirus genome reveal a temporal switch in chromatin organization linked to a major IE protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(32). 13126–13131. 41 indexed citations

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Tillo, Desiree, N. Kaplan, Irene K. Moore, et al.. (2010). High Nucleosome Occupancy Is Encoded at Human Regulatory Sequences. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e9129–e9129. 140 indexed citations

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Tillo, Desiree & Timothy R. Hughes. (2009). G+C content dominates intrinsic nucleosome occupancy. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(1). 442–442. 214 indexed citations

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Kaplan, N., Irene K. Moore, Yvonne Fondufe‐Mittendorf, et al.. (2008). The DNA-encoded nucleosome organization of a eukaryotic genome. Nature. 458(7236). 362–366. 908 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, William, Desiree Tillo, Nicolas Bray, et al.. (2007). A high-resolution atlas of nucleosome occupancy in yeast. Nature Genetics. 39(10). 1235–1244. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tillier, Elisabeth R.M., et al.. (2006). Codep: Maximizing co‐evolutionary interdependencies to discover interacting proteins. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 63(4). 822–831. 24 indexed citations

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