Everything about Mastermind

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MastermindA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Lipoprotein(a): An underestimated inflammatory mastermindInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Several books to be splitThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Mastermind Recruits CycC:CDK8 to Phosphorylate the Notch ICD and Coordinate Activation with TurnoverCited 561 times
5. Go sideways: Virus (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: IncognitoA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Mastermind Recruits CycC:CDK8 to Phosphorylate the Notch ICD and Coordinate Activation with Turnover

  Christy J. Fryer, J.Brandon White, Katherine A. Jones · 2004 · Molecular Cell · 561 citations

• MAML1, a human homologue of Drosophila Mastermind, is a transcriptional co-activator for NOTCH receptors

  Lizi Wu, Jon C. Aster, Stephen C. Blacklow · 2000 · Nature Genetics · 485 citations

• Crystal Structure of the CSL-Notch-Mastermind Ternary Complex Bound to DNA

  Jeffrey J. Wilson, Rhett A. Kovall · 2006 · Cell · 329 citations

• Mastermind mediates chromatin-specific transcription and turnover of the Notch enhancer complex

  Christy J. Fryer, Elise Lamar, Ivana Turbachova · 2002 · Genes & Development · 297 citations

• Mononuclear phagocytes and rheumatoid synovitis. Mastermind or workhorse in arthritis?

  Gerd R. Burmester, Bruno Stuhlmüller, Gernot Keyszer · 1997 · Arthritis & Rheumatism · 258 citations

• Mastermind critically regulates Notch-mediated lymphoid cell fate decisions

  Ivan Maillard, Andrew P. Weng, Andrea C. Carpenter · 2004 · Blood · 256 citations

• Identification of a Family of Mastermind-Like Transcriptional Coactivators for Mammalian Notch Receptors

  Lizi Wu, Tao Sun, Karla Kobayashi · 2002 · Molecular and Cellular Biology · 225 citations

• Mastermind

  V. Chvátal · 1983 · Combinatorica · 199 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Lipoprotein(a): An underestimated inflammatory mastermind

  Kim E. Dzobo, Jordan M. Kraaijenhof, Erik S.G. Stroes · 2022 · Atherosclerosis · 112 citations

• Epstein-Barr virus: the mastermind of immune chaos

  Jean de Melo Silva, Carlos Eduardo de Castro Alves, Gemilson Soares Pontes · 2024 · Frontiers in Immunology · 103 citations

• Glucose transporter 4: Insulin response mastermind, glycolysis catalyst and treatment direction for cancer progression

  Yu-Chan Chang, Ming-Hsien Chan, Yi-Fang Yang · 2023 · Cancer Letters · 73 citations

• BCR-ABL: The molecular mastermind behind chronic myeloid leukemia

  Tara Shammas, Malalage N. Peiris, April N. Meyer · 2025 · Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews · 39 citations

• Dynamic modes of Notch transcription hubs conferring memory and stochastic activation revealed by live imaging the co-activator Mastermind

  F Javier DeHaro-Arbona, Charalambos Roussos, Sarah Baloul · 2024 · eLife · 18 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Several books to be splitSteve Kenson · 2004
• Mutants & MastermindsSteve Kenson · 2002
• I've started so I'll finishMagnus Magnusson · 1997
• Time of CrisisChristopher L. McGlothlin · 2002
• NocturnalsDan Brereton · 2004
• Time of VengeanceChristopher L. McGlothlin · 2006
• Hero HighLucien Soulban · 2007
• 📕The Mastermind bookGore Vidal, Cameron Hazlehurst · 1979

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