Professor – Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine

Contact information:

Telephone: (514) 398-5883
e-mail address: xiang-jiao.yang@mcgill.ca
website: http://cancercentre.mcgill.ca/research/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=97
 

Projects for Thesis Supervision:

1. Functional regulation of histone deacetylases.

2. Functional regulation of the monocytic leukemia zinc finger protein MOZ.

3. Regulation of the transcription factor AML1 (acute myeloid leukemia 1).

Recent Publications:

Yang, X.J. and Grégoire, S. (2005)
Class II histone deacetylases: from sequence to function, regulation and clinical implication. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25, 2873-2884.

Yang, X.J. (2004)
Lysine acetylation and the bromodomain: a new partnership for signaling. Bioessays 26, 1076-1087.

Doyon, Y., Cayrou, C., Ullah, M., Landry, A. J., Cote, V., Selleck, W., Lane, W.S., Tan, S., Yang, X.J., and Cote, J. (2005).
ING tumor suppressors are critical regulators of chromatin acetylation required for genome expression and perpetuation. Mol. Cell 21, 51-64.