Nucleosomes specify co-factor access to 
D. Chakraborty, C.R. Sandate, L. Isbel, G. Kempf, J. Weiss, S. Cavadini, L. Kater, J. Seebacher, Z. Kozicka, L. Stoos, R.S. Grand, D. Schübeler, A.K. Michael, N.H. Thomä, Molecular Cell 85 (2025) 2919–2936.e12.

Cooperation between bHLH transcription factors and histones for DNA access
A.K. Michael, L. Stoos, P. Crosby, N. Eggers, X.Y. Nie, K. Makasheva, M. Minnich, K.L. Healy, J. Weiss, G. Kempf, S. Cavadini, L. Kater, J. Seebacher, L. Vecchia, D. Chakraborty, L. Isbel, R.S. Grand, F. Andersch, J.L. Fribourgh, D. Schübeler, J. Zuber, A.C. Liu, P.B. Becker, B. Fierz, C.L. Partch, J.S. Menet, N.H. Thomä, Nature 619 (2023) 385–393.

Readout of histone methylation by Trim24 locally restricts chromatin opening by 
L. Isbel, M. Iskar, S. Durdu, J. Weiss, R.S. Grand, E. Hietter-Pfeiffer, Z. Kozicka, A.K. Michael, L. Burger, N.H. Thomä, D. Schübeler, Nature Structural &; Molecular Biology 30 (2023) 948–957.

BANP opens chromatin and activates CpG-island-regulated genes
R.S. Grand, L. Burger, C. Gräwe, A.K. Michael, L. Isbel, D. Hess, L. Hoerner, V. Iesmantavicius, S. Durdu, M. Pregnolato, A.R. Krebs, S.A. Smallwood, N. Thomä, M. Vermeulen, D. Schübeler, Nature 596 (2021) 133–137.

Reading the chromatinized genome
A.K. Michael, N.H. Thomä, Cell 184 (2021) 3599–3611.

Mechanisms of OC-SO motif readout on nucleosomes
A.K. Michael, R.S. Grand, L. Isbel, S. Cavadini, Z. Kozicka, G. Kempf, R.D. Bunker, A.D. Schenk, A. Graff-Meyer, G.R. Pathare, J. Weiss, S. Matsumoto, L. Burger, D. Schübeler, N.H. Thomä, Science 368 (2020) 1460–1465.

Dynamics at the serine loop underlie differential affinity of cryptochromes for CLOCK:BMAL1 to control circadian timing
J.L. Fribourgh, A. Srivastava, C.R. Sandate, A.K. Michael, P.L. Hsu, C. Rakers, L.T. Nguyen, M.R. Torgrimson, G.C.G. Parico, S. Tripathi, N. Zheng, G.C. Lander, T. Hirota, F. Tama, C.L. Partch, ELife 9 (2020).

Protein dynamics regulate distinct biochemical properties of cryptochromes in mammalian circadian rhythms
J.L. Fribourgh, A. Srivastava, C.R. Sandate, A.K. Michael, P.L. Hsu, C. Rakers, L.T. Nguyen, M.R. Torgrimson, G.C.G. Parico, S. Tripathi, N. Zheng, G.C. Lander, T. Hirota, F. Tama, C.L. Partch, BioRxiv (2019).

Structural dynamics of RbmA governs plasticity of Vibrio cholerae biofilms
J.C. Fong, A. Rogers, A.K. Michael, N.C. Parsley, W.-C. Cornell, Y.-C. Lin, P.K. Singh, R. Hartmann, K. Drescher, E. Vinogradov, L.E. Dietrich, C.L. Partch, F.H. Yildiz, ELife 6 (2017).

A slow conformational switch in the BMAL1 transactivation domain modulates circadian rhythms
C.L. Gustafson, N.C. Parsley, H. Asimgil, H.-W. Lee, C. Ahlbach, A.K. Michael, H. Xu, O.L. Williams, T.L. Davis, A.C. Liu, C.L. Partch, Molecular Cell 66 (2017) 447–457.e7.

Structural basis of the day-night transition in a bacterial circadian clock
R. Tseng, N.F. Goularte, A. Chavan, J. Luu, S.E. Cohen, Y.-G. Chang, J. Heisler, S. Li, A.K. Michael, S. Tripathi, S.S. Golden, A. LiWang, C.L. Partch, Science 355 (2017) 1174–1180.

Formation of a repressive complex in the mammalian circadian clock is mediated by the secondary pocket of CR
A.K. Michael, J.L. Fribourgh, Y. Chelliah, C.R. Sandate, G.L. Hura, D. Schneidman-Duhovny, S.M. Tripathi, J.S. Takahashi, C.L. Partch, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (2017) 1560–1565.

Animal cryptochromes: Divergent roles in light perception, circadian timekeeping and beyond
A.K. Michael, J.L. Fribourgh, R.N. Van Gelder, C.L. Partch, Photochemistry and Photobiology 93 (2017) 128–140.

Cytosolic BMAL1 moonlights as a translation factor
A.K. Michael, H. Asimgil, C.L. Partch, Trends in Biochemical Sciences 40 (2015) 489–490.

Cancer/Testis antigen PAS silences the circadian clock
A.K. Michael, S.L. Harvey, P.J. Sammons, A.P. Anderson, H.M. Kopalle, A.H. Banham, C.L. Partch, Molecular Cell 58 (2015) 743–754.

Stereoselective formation of trisubstituted vinyl boronate esters by the acid-mediated elimination of ;1-hydroxyboronate esters
W. Guan, A.K. Michael, M.L. McIntosh, L. Koren-Selfridge, J.P. Scott, T.B. Clark, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 79 (2014) 7199–7204.

Large-scale cytological profiling for functional analysis of bioactive compounds
M.H. Woehrmann, W.M. Bray, J.K. Durbin, S.C. Nisam, A.K. Michael, E. Glassey, J.M. Stuart, R.S. Lokey, Molecular BioSystems 9 (2013).