Publications

    Journal articles

  • Boavida, Ana; Napolitano, Luisa MR; Santos, Diana; Cortone, Giuseppe; Jegadesan, Nanda K; Onesti, Silvia; Branzei, Dana; Pisani, Francesca M
    FANCJ DNA helicase is recruited to the replisome by AND-1 to ensure genome stability
    In: EMBO Reports, Vol. 25, 2024, Nr. 2, pp. 876 – 901
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  • Kannan, Annapoorna; Leela, Shyni Gangadharan; Branzei, Dana; Gangwani, Laxman
    Role of senataxin in R-loop-mediated neurodegeneration
    In: Brain Communications, Vol. 6, 2024, Nr. 4, fcae239
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Branzei, Dana; Bene, Szabolcs; Gangwani, Laxman; Szakal, Barnabas
    The multifaceted roles of the Ctf4 replisome hub in the maintenance of genome integrity
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 142, 2024, 103742
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  • Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana
    Hot on RAD51C : Structure and functions of RAD51C-XRCC3
    In: Molecular Oncology, Vol. 17, 2023, Nr. 10, pp. 1950 – 1952
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Psakhye, Ivan; Kawasumi, Ryotaro; Abe, Takuya; Hirota, Kouji; Branzei, Dana
    PCNA recruits cohesin loader Scc2 to ensure sister chromatid cohesion
    In: Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Vol. 30, 2023, Nr. 9, pp. 1286 – 1294
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  • Kannan, Annapoorna; Cuartas, Juliana; Gangwani, Pratik; Branzei, Dana; Gangwani, Laxman
    Mutation in senataxin alters the mechanism of R-loop resolution in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4
    In: Brain: A Journal of Neurology, Vol. 145, 2022, Nr. 9, pp. 3072 – 3094
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Dolce, Valeria; Dusi, Sabrina; Giannattasio, Michele; Joseph, Chinnu Rose; Fumasoni, Marco; Branzei, Dana
    Parental histone deposition on the replicated strands promotes error-free DNA damage tolerance and regulates drug resistance
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 36, 2022, Nr. 3-4, pp. 167 – 179
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Joseph, Chinnu Rose; Dusi, Sabrina; Giannattasio, Michele; Branzei, Dana
    Rad51-mediated replication of damaged templates relies on monoSUMOylated DDK kinase
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 13, 2022, Nr. 1, 2480
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Humphreys, Ian; Pei, Jimin; Baek, Minkyung; Krishnakumar, Aditya; Anishchenko, Ivan; Ovchinnikov, Sergey; Zhang, Jing; Ness, Travis J.; Banjade, Sudeep; Bagde, Saket R.; Stancheva, Viktoriya G.; Li, Xiao-Han; Liu, Kaixian; Zheng, Zhi; Barrero, Daniel J.; Roy, Upasana; Kuper, Jochen; Fernández, Israel S.; Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana; Rizo, Josep; Kisker, Caroline; Greene, Eric C.; Biggins, Sue; Keeney, Scott; Miller, Elizabeth A.; Fromme, J. Christopher; Hendrickson, Tamara L.; Cong, Qian; Baker, David
    Computed structures of core eukaryotic protein complexes
    In: Science, Vol. 374, 2021, Nr. 6573, eabm4805
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Jegadesan, Nanda Kumar; Branzei, Dana
    DDX11 loss causes replication stress and pharmacologically exploitable DNA repair defects
    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Vol. 118, 2021, Nr. 17, e2024258118
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  • Branzei, Dana; Szakal, Barnabas
    DNA helicases in homologous recombination repair
    In: Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, Vol. 71, 2021, pp. 27 – 33
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  • Psakhye, Ivan; Branzei, Dana
    SMC complexes are guarded by the SUMO protease Ulp2 against SUMO-chain-mediated turnover
    In: Cell Reports, Vol. 36, 2021, Nr. 5, 109485
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  • Agashe, Sumedha; Joseph, Chinnu Rose; Reyes, Teresa Anne Clarisse; Menolfi, Demis; Giannattasio, Michele; Waizenegger, Anja; Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana
    Smc5/6 functions with Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1 to complete chromosome replication at natural pause sites
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 12, 2021, Nr. 1, 2111
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kawasumi, Ryotaro; Abe, Takuya; Psakhye, Ivan; Miyata, Keiji; Hirota, Kouji; Branzei, Dana
    Vertebrate CTF18 and DDX11 essential function in cohesion is bypassed by preventing WAPL-mediated cohesin release
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 35, 2021, Nr. 19-20, pp. 1368 – 1382
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  • Waizenegger, Anja; Urulangodi, Madhusoodanan; Lehmann, Carl P.; Reyes, Teresa Anne Clarisse; Saugar, Irene; Tercero, José Antonio; Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana
    Mus81-Mms4 endonuclease is an Esc2-STUbL-Cullin8 mitotic substrate impacting on genome integrity
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 11, 2020, Nr. 1, 5746
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  • Lehmann, Carl P.; Jiménez-Martín, Alberto; Branzei, Dana; Tercero, José Antonio
    Prevention of unwanted recombination at damaged replication forks
    In: Current genetics, Vol. 66, 2020, Nr. 6, pp. 1045 – 1051
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Rossi, Francesco; Helbling-Leclerc, Anne; Kawasumi, Ryotaro; Jegadesan, Nanda Kumar; Xu, Xinlin; Devulder, Pierre; Abe, Takuya; Takata, Minoru; Xu, Dongyi; Rosselli, Filippo; Branzei, Dana
    SMC5/6 acts jointly with Fanconi anemia factors to support DNA repair and genome stability
    In: EMBO Reports, Vol. 21, 2020, Nr. 2, e48222
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  • Jiménez-Martín, Alberto; Saugar, Irene; Joseph, Chinnu Rose; Mayer, Alexandra; Lehmann, Carl P.; Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana; Tercero, José Antonio
    The Mgs1/WRNIP1 ATPase is required to prevent a recombination salvage pathway at damaged replication forks
    In: Science Advances, Vol. 6, 2020, Nr. 15, eaaz3327
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  • Lerner, Leticia K; Holzer, Sandro; Kilkenny, Mairi L; Šviković, Saša; Murat, Pierre; Schiavone, Davide; Eldridge, Cara B; Bittleston, Alice; Maman, Joseph D; Branzei, Dana; Stott, Katherine; Pellegrini, Luca; Sale, Julian E
    Timeless couples G-quadruplex detection with processing by DDX11 helicase during DNA replication
    In: The EMBO Journal, Vol. 39, 2020, Nr. 18, e104185
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  • Giannattasio, Michele; Branzei, Dana
    DNA replication through strand displacement during lagging strand DNA synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    In: Genes, Vol. 10, 2019, Nr. 2, 167
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  • Gallo, David; Kim, TaeHyung; Szakal, Barnabas; Saayman, Xanita; Narula, Ashrut; Park, Yoona; Branzei, Dana; Zhang, Zhaolei; Brown, Grant W.
    Rad5 Recruits Error-Prone DNA Polymerases for Mutagenic Repair of ssDNA Gaps on Undamaged Templates
    In: Molecular Cell, Vol. 73, 2019, Nr. 5, pp. 900 – 914.e9
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  • Psakhye, Ivan; Castellucci, Federica; Branzei, Dana
    SUMO-Chain-Regulated Proteasomal Degradation Timing Exemplified in DNA Replication Initiation
    In: Molecular Cell, Vol. 76, 2019, Nr. 4, pp. 632 – 645.e6
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  • Bharti, Sanjay Kumar; Sommers, Joshua A.; Awate, Sanket; Bellani, Marina A.; Khan, Irfan; Bradley, Lynda; King, Graeme A.; Seol, Yeonee; Vidhyasagar, Venkatasubramanian; Wu, Yuliang; Abe, Takuye; Kobayashi, Koji; Shin-Ya, Kazuo; Kitao, Hiroyuki; Wold, Marc S.; Branzei, Dana; Neuman, Keir C.; Brosh, Robert M.
    A minimal threshold of FANCJ helicase activity is required for its response to replication stress or double-strand break repair
    In: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 46, 2018, Nr. 12, pp. 6238 – 6256
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  • Abe, Takuya; Kawasumi, Ryotaro; Giannattasio, Michele; Dusi, Sabrina; Yoshimoto, Yui; Miyata, Keiji; Umemura, Koyuki; Hirota, Kouji; Branzei, Dana
    AND-1 fork protection function prevents fork resection and is essential for proliferation
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, 2018, Nr. 1, 3091
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  • Kannan, Annapoorna; Bhatia, Kanchan; Branzei, Dana; Gangwani, Laxman
    Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcs causes DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy
    In: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 46, 2018, Nr. 16, pp. 8326 – 8346
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  • Abe, Takuya; Branzei, Dana; Hirota, Kouji
    DNA damage tolerance mechanisms revealed from the analysis of immunoglobulin v gene diversification in avian DT40 cells
    In: Genes, Vol. 9, 2018, Nr. 12, 614
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  • Litwin, Ireneusz; Bakowski, Tomasz; Szakal, Barnabas; Pilarczyk, Ewa; Maciaszczyk-Dziubinska, Ewa; Branzei, Dana; Wysocki, Robert
    Error‐free DNA damage tolerance pathway is facilitated by the Irc5 translocase through cohesin
    In: The EMBO Journal, Vol. 37, 2018, Nr. 18, e98732
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  • Iacovella, Maria G.; Bremang, Michael; Basha, Omer; Giacò, Luciano; Carotenuto, Walter; Golfieri, Cristina; Szakal, Barnabas; Maschio, Marianna Dal; Infantino, Valentina; Beznoussenko, Galina V.; Joseph, Chinnu R.; Visintin, Clara; Mironov, Alexander A.; Visintin, Rosella; Branzei, Dana; Ferreira-Cerca, Sébastien; Yeger-Lotem, Esti; De Wulf, Peter
    Integrating Rio1 activities discloses its nutrient-activated network in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    In: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 46, 2018, Nr. 15, pp. 7586 – 7611
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  • Branzei, Dana; Giannattasio, Michele
    SIRFing the replication fork : Assessing protein interactions with nascent DNA
    In: The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Vol. 217, 2018, Nr. 4, pp. 1177 – 1179
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  • Nakazato, Arisa; Kajita, Kinumi; Ooka, Masato; Akagawa, Remi; Abe, Takuya; Takeda, Shunichi; Branzei, Dana; Hirota, Kouji
    SPARTAN promotes genetic diversification of the immunoglobulin-variable gene locus in avian DT40 cells
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 68, 2018, pp. 50 – 57
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  • Srivatsan, Anjana; Li, Bin-Zhong; Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana; Putnam, Christopher D.; Kolodner, Richard D.
    The Swr1 chromatin-remodeling complex prevents genome instability induced by replication fork progression defects
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, 2018, Nr. 1, 3680
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  • Abe, Takuya; Ooka, Masato; Kawasumi, Ryotaro; Miyata, Keiji; Takata, Minoru; Hirota, Kouji; Branzei, Dana
    Warsaw breakage syndrome DDX11 helicase acts jointly with RAD17 in the repair of bulky lesions and replication through abasic sites
    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Vol. 115, 2018, Nr. 33, pp. 8412 – 8417
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  • Branzei, Dana; Szakal, Barnabas
    Building up and breaking down : mechanisms controlling recombination during replication
    In: Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Vol. 52, 2017, Nr. 4, pp. 381 – 394
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  • Kawasumi, Ryotaro; Abe, Takuya; Arakawa, Hiroshi; Garre, Massimiliano; Hirota, Kouji; Branzei, Dana
    ESCO1/2’s roles in chromosome structure and interphase chromatin organization
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 31, 2017, Nr. 21, pp. 2136 – 2150
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  • Petrakis, Theodoros G.; Komseli, Eirini-Stavroula; Papaioannou, Marilena; Vougas, Kostas; Polyzos, Alexandros; Myrianthopoulos, Vassilios; Mikros, Emmanuel; Trougakos, Ioannis P.; Thanos, Dimitris; Branzei, Dana; Townsend, Paul; Gorgoulis, Vassilis G.
    Erratum to ‘Exploring and exploiting the systemic effects of deregulated replication licensing’ [Seminars in Cancer Biology 37–38C, (2016) 3–15]
    In: Seminars in Cancer Biology, Vol. 43, 2017, pp. 180
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  • Sebesta, Marek; Urulangodi, Madhusoodanan; Stefanovie, Barbora; Szakal, Barnabas; Pacesa, Martin; Lisby, Michael; Branzei, Dana; Krejci, Lumir
    Esc2 promotes Mus81 complex-activity via its SUMO-like and DNA binding domains
    In: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 45, 2017, Nr. 1, pp. 215 – 230
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  • Branzei, Dana; Ciliberto, Andrea
    Not all roads lead to Cdk1
    In: Cell Cycle, Vol. 16, 2017, Nr. 5, pp. 395 – 396
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  • Giannattasio, Michele; Branzei, Dana
    S-phase checkpoint regulations that preserve replication and chromosome integrity upon dNTP depletion
    In: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences - CMLS, Vol. 74, 2017, Nr. 13, pp. 2361 – 2380
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  • Abe, Takuya; Kawasumi, Ryotaro; Arakawa, Hiroshi; Hori, Tetsuya; Shirahige, Katsuhiko; Losada, Ana; Fukagawa, Tatsuo; Branzei, Dana
    Chromatin determinants of the inner-centromere rely on replication factors with functions that impart cohesion
    In: OncoTarget, Vol. 7, 2016, Nr. 42, pp. 67934 – 67947
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  • Branzei, Dana; Psakhye, Ivan
    DNA damage tolerance
    In: Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Vol. 40, 2016, pp. 137 – 144
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  • Branzei, Dana
    DNA damage tolerance branches out toward sister chromatid cohesion
    In: Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Vol. 3, 2016, Nr. 1, e1035478
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  • Branzei, Dana; Szakal, Barnabas
    DNA damage tolerance by recombination : Molecular pathways and DNA structures
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 44, 2016, pp. 68 – 75
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  • Petrakis, Theodoros G.; Komseli, Eirini-Stavroula; Papaioannou, Marilena; Vougas, Kostas; Polyzos, Alexandros; Myrianthopoulos, Vassilios; Mikros, Emmanuel; Trougakos, Ioannis P.; Thanos, Dimitris; Branzei, Dana; Townsend, Paul; Gorgoulis, Vassilis G.
    Exploring and exploiting the systemic effects of deregulated replication licensing
    In: Seminars in Cancer Biology, Vol. 37-38, 2016, pp. 3 – 15
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  • Branzei, Dana; Menolfi, Demis
    G2/M chromosome transactions essentially relying on Smc5/6
    In: Cell Cycle, Vol. 15, 2016, Nr. 5, pp. 611 – 612
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  • Branzei, Dana; Szakal, Barnabas
    Priming for tolerance and cohesion at replication forks
    In: Nucleus, Vol. 7, 2016, Nr. 1, pp. 8 – 12
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  • Urulangodi, Madhusoodanan; Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana
    SUMO-mediated global and local control of recombination
    In: Cell Cycle, Vol. 15, 2016, Nr. 2, pp. 160 – 161
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  • Bonner, Jacob N.; Choi, Koyi; Xue, Xiaoyu; Torres, Nikko P.; Szakal, Barnabas; Wei, Lei; Wan, Bingbing; Arter, Meret; Matos, Joao; Sung, Patrick; Brown, Grant W.; Branzei, Dana; Zhao, Xiaolan
    Smc5/6 Mediated Sumoylation of the Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1 Complex Promotes Removal of Recombination Intermediates
    In: Cell Reports, Vol. 16, 2016, Nr. 2, pp. 368 – 378
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  • Hoppe, Thorsten; Branzei, Dana
    Stefan Jentsch (1955–2016)—Maestro of the ubiquitin family
    In: The EMBO Journal, Vol. 36, 2016, Nr. 1, pp. 1 – 2
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  • Böhm, Stefanie; Szakal, Barnabas; Herken, Benjamin W.; Sullivan, Meghan R.; Mihalevic, Michael J.; Kabbinavar, Faiz F.; Branzei, Dana; Clark, Nathan L.; Bernstein, Kara A.
    The budding yeast ubiquitin protease Ubp7 is a novel component involved in s phase progression
    In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Vol. 291, 2016, Nr. 9, pp. 4442 – 4452
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  • Choi, Koyi; Batke, Sabrina; Szakal, Barnabas; Lowther, Jonathan; Hao, Fanfan; Sarangi, Prabha; Branzei, Dana; Ulrich, Helle D.; Zhao, Xiaolan
    Concerted and differential actions of two enzymatic domains underlie Rad5 contributions to DNA damage tolerance
    In: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 43, 2015, Nr. 5, pp. 2666 – 2677
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  • Fumasoni, Marco; Zwicky, Katharina; Vanoli, Fabio; Lopes, Massimo; Branzei, Dana
    Error-Free DNA Damage Tolerance and Sister Chromatid Proximity during DNA Replication Rely on the Polα/Primase/Ctf4 Complex
    In: Molecular Cell, Vol. 57, 2015, Nr. 5, pp. 812 – 823
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  • Menolfi, Demis; Delamarre, Axel; Lengronne, Armelle; Pasero, Philippe; Branzei, Dana
    Essential Roles of the Smc5/6 Complex in Replication through Natural Pausing Sites and Endogenous DNA Damage Tolerance
    In: Molecular Cell, Vol. 60, 2015, Nr. 6, pp. 835 – 846
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  • Urulangodi, Madhusoodanan; Sebesta, Marek; Menolfi, Demis; Szakal, Barnabas; Sollier, Julie; Sisakova, Alexandra; Krejci, Lumir; Branzei, Dana
    Local regulation of the Srs2 helicase by the SUMO-like domain protein Esc2 promotes recombination at sites of stalled replication
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 29, 2015, Nr. 19, pp. 2067 – 2080
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  • Hang, Lisa E.; Peng, Jie; Tan, Wei; Szakal, Barnabas; Menolfi, Demis; Sheng, Ziwei; Lobachev, Kirill; Branzei, Dana; Feng, Wenyi; Zhao, Xiaolan
    Rtt107 Is a Multi-functional Scaffold Supporting Replication Progression with Partner SUMO and Ubiquitin Ligases
    In: Molecular Cell, Vol. 60, 2015, Nr. 2, pp. 268 – 279
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  • Xue, Xiaoyu; Choi, Koyi; Bonner, Jacob N.; Szakal, Barnabas; Chen, Yu-Hung; Papusha, Alma; Saro, Dorina; Niu, Hengyao; Ira, Grzegorz; Branzei, Dana; Sung, Patrick; Zhao, Xiaolan
    Selective modulation of the functions of a conserved DNA motor by a histone fold complex
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 29, 2015, Nr. 10, pp. 1000 – 1005
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  • Gritenaite, Dalia; Princz, Lissa N.; Szakal, Barnabas; Bantele, Susanne C. S.; Wendeler, Lina; Schilbach, Sandra; Habermann, Bianca H.; Matos, Joao; Lisby, Michael; Branzei, Dana; Pfander, Boris
    A cell cycle-regulated Slx4-Dpb11 complex promotes the resolution of DNA repair intermediates linked to stalled replication
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 28, 2014, Nr. 14, pp. 1604 – 1619
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  • Gonzalez-Huici, Victor; Szakal, Barnabas; Urulangodi, Madhusoodanan; Psakhye, Ivan; Castellucci, Federica; Menolfi, Demis; Rajakumara, Eerappa; Fumasoni, Marco; Bermejo, Rodrigo; Jentsch, Stefan; Branzei, Dana
    DNA bending facilitates the error-free DNA damage tolerance pathway and upholds genome integrity
    In: The EMBO Journal, Vol. 33, 2014, Nr. 4, pp. 327 – 340
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  • Abe, Takuya; Branzei, Dana
    High levels of BRC4 induced by a Tet-On 3G system suppress DNA repair and impair cell proliferation in vertebrate cells
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 22, 2014, pp. 153 – 164
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  • Kramarz, Karol; Litwin, Ireneusz; Cal-Bąkowska, Magdalena; Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana; Wysocki, Robert; Dziadkowiec, Dorota
    Swi2/Snf2-like protein Uls1 functions in the Sgs1-dependent pathway of maintenance of rDNA stability and alleviation of replication stress
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 21, 2014, pp. 24 – 35
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  • Giannattasio, Michele; Zwicky, Katharina; Follonier, Cindy; Foiani, Marco; Lopes, Massimo; Branzei, Dana
    Visualization of recombination-mediated damage bypass by template switching
    In: Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Vol. 21, 2014, Nr. 10, pp. 884 – 892
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  • Chen, Yu-Hung; Szakal, Barnabas; Castellucci, Federica; Branzei, Dana; Zhao, Xiaolan
    DNA damage checkpoint and recombinational repair differentially affect the replication stress tolerance of smc6 mutants
    In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, Vol. 24, 2013, Nr. 15, pp. 2431 – 2441
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  • Karras, Georgios Ioannis; Fumasoni, Marco; Sienski, Grzegorz; Vanoli, Fabio; Branzei, Dana; Jentsch, Stefan
    Noncanonical Role of the 9-1-1 Clamp in the Error-Free DNA Damage Tolerance Pathway
    In: Molecular Cell, Vol. 49, 2013, Nr. 3, pp. 536 – 546
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  • Szakal, Barnabas; Branzei, Dana
    Premature Cdk1/Cdc5/Mus81 pathway activation induces aberrant replication and deleterious crossover
    In: The EMBO Journal, Vol. 32, 2013, Nr. 8, pp. 1155 – 1167
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  • Bustard, Denise E.; Menolfi, Demis; Jeppsson, Kristian; Ball, Lindsay G.; Dewey, Sidney Carter; Shirahige, Katsuhiko; Sjögren, Camilla; Branzei, Dana; Cobb, Jennifer A.
    During Replication Stress, Non-Smc Element 5 (Nse5) Is Required for Smc5/6 Protein Complex Functionality at Stalled Forks
    In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Vol. 287, 2012, Nr. 14, pp. 11374 – 11383
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  • Daee, Danielle L.; Ferrari, Elisa; Longerich, Simonne; Zheng, Xiao-feng; Xue, Xiaoyu; Branzei, Dana; Sung, Patrick; Myung, Kyungjae
    Rad5-dependent DNA Repair Functions of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae FANCM Protein Homolog Mph1
    In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Vol. 287, 2012, Nr. 32, pp. 26563 – 26575
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  • Era, Saho; Abe, Takuya; Arakawa, Hiroshi; Kobayashi, Shunsuke; Szakal, Barnabas; Yoshikawa, Yusuke; Motegi, Akira; Takeda, Shunichi; Branzei, Dana
    The SUMO protease SENP1 is required for cohesion maintenance and mitotic arrest following spindle poison treatment
    In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC), Vol. 426, 2012, Nr. 3, pp. 310 – 316
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  • Yong-Gonzales, Vladimir; Hang, Lisa E.; Castellucci, Federica; Branzei, Dana; Zhao, Xiaolan
    The Smc5-Smc6 Complex Regulates Recombination at Centromeric Regions and Affects Kinetochore Protein Sumoylation during Normal Growth
    In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 7, 2012, Nr. 12, e51540
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  • Branzei, Dana
    The three SMC sisters
    In: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Vol. 12, 2011, Nr. 6, pp. 343 – 343
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  • Branzei, Dana
    Ubiquitin family modifications and template switching
    In: FEBS Letters, Vol. 585, 2011, Nr. 18, pp. 2810 – 2817
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    Leaping forks at inverted repeats
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 24, 2010, Nr. 1, pp. 5 – 9
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    Maintaining genome stability at the replication fork
    In: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Vol. 11, 2010, Nr. 3, pp. 208 – 219
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  • Vanoli, Fabio; Fumasoni, Marco; Szakal, Barnabas; Maloisel, Laurent; Branzei, Dana
    Replication and Recombination Factors Contributing to Recombination-Dependent Bypass of DNA Lesions by Template Switch
    In: PLoS Genetics, Vol. 6, 2010, Nr. 11, e1001205
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  • Choi, Koyi; Szakal, Barnabas; Chen, Yu-Hung; Branzei, Dana; Zhao, Xiaolan
    The Smc5/6 Complex and Esc2 Influence Multiple Replication-associated Recombination Processes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, Vol. 21, 2010, Nr. 13, pp. 2306 – 2314
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  • Chen, Yu-Hung; Choi, Koyi; Szakal, Barnabas; Arenz, Jacqueline; Duan, Xinyuan; Ye, Hong; Branzei, Dana; Zhao, Xiaolan
    Interplay between the Smc5/6 complex and the Mph1 helicase in recombinational repair
    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Vol. 106, 2009, Nr. 50, pp. 21252 – 21257
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  • Bernstein, Kara A; Shor, Erika; Sunjevaric, Ivana; Fumasoni, Marco; Burgess, Rebecca C; Foiani, Marco; Branzei, Dana; Rothstein, Rodney
    Sgs1 function in the repair of DNA replication intermediates is separable from its role in homologous recombinational repair
    In: The EMBO Journal, Vol. 28, 2009, Nr. 7, pp. 915 – 925
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  • Sollier, Julie; Driscoll, Robert; Castellucci, Federica; Foiani, Marco; Jackson, Stephen P.; Branzei, Dana
    The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Esc2 and Smc5-6 Proteins Promote Sister Chromatid Junction-mediated Intra-S Repair
    In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, Vol. 20, 2009, Nr. 6, pp. 1671 – 1682
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    The checkpoint response to replication stress
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 8, 2009, Nr. 9, pp. 1038 – 1046
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  • Bermejo, Rodrigo; Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    Cohesion by topology: : sister chromatids interlocked by DNA
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 22, 2008, Nr. 17, pp. 2297 – 2301
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  • Ohuchi, Takashi; Seki, Masayuki; Branzei, Dana; Maeda, Daisuke; Ui, Ayako; Ogiwara, Hideaki; Tada, Shusuke; Enomoto, Takemi
    Rad52 sumoylation and its involvement in the efficient induction of homologous recombination
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 7, 2008, Nr. 6, pp. 879 – 889
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    Regulation of DNA repair throughout the cell cycle
    In: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Vol. 9, 2008, Nr. 4, pp. 297 – 308
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  • Branzei, Dana; Vanoli, Fabio; Foiani, Marco
    SUMOylation regulates Rad18-mediated template switch
    In: Nature, Vol. 456, 2008, Nr. 7224, pp. 915 – 920
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    Interplay of replication checkpoints and repair proteins at stalled replication forks
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 6, 2007, Nr. 7, pp. 994 – 1003
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    RecQ helicases queuing with Srs2 to disrupt Rad51 filaments and suppress recombination
    In: Genes and Development, Vol. 21, 2007, Nr. 23, pp. 3019 – 3026
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    Template Switching : From Replication Fork Repair to Genome Rearrangements
    In: Cell, Vol. 131, 2007, Nr. 7, pp. 1228 – 1230
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Vijeh Motlagh, Niloofar Davoodi; Seki, Masayuki; Branzei, Dana; Enomoto, Takemi
    Mgs1 and Rad18/Rad5/Mms2 are required for survival of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants with novel temperature/cold sensitive alleles of the DNA polymerase δ subunit, Pol31
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 5, 2006, Nr. 12, pp. 1459 – 1474
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    The Rad53 signal transduction pathway : Replication fork stabilization, DNA repair, and adaptation
    In: Experimental Cell Research, Vol. 312, 2006, Nr. 14, pp. 2654 – 2659
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  • Branzei, Dana; Sollier, Julie; Liberi, Giordano; Zhao, Xiaolan; Maeda, Daisuke; Seki, Masayuki; Enomoto, Takemi; Ohta, Kunihiro; Foiani, Marco
    Ubc9- and Mms21-Mediated Sumoylation Counteracts Recombinogenic Events at Damaged Replication Forks
    In: Cell, Vol. 127, 2006, Nr. 3, pp. 509 – 522
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  • Branzei, Dana; Foiani, Marco
    The DNA damage response during DNA replication
    In: Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Vol. 17, 2005, Nr. 6, pp. 568 – 575
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  • Branzei, Dana; Seki, Masayuki; Enomoto, Takemi
    Rad18/Rad5/Mms2‐mediated polyubiquitination of PCNA is implicated in replication completion during replication stress
    In: Genes to Cells, Vol. 9, 2004, Nr. 11, pp. 1031 – 1042
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Maeda, Daisuke; Seki, Masayuki; Onoda, Fumitoshi; Branzei, Dana; Kawabe, Yoh-Ichi; Enomoto, Takemi
    Ubc9 is required for damage-tolerance and damage-induced interchromosomal homologous recombination in S. cerevisiae
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 3, 2004, Nr. 3, pp. 335 – 341
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  • Branzei, Dana; Seki, Masayuki; Onoda, Fumitoshi; Yagi, Hideki; Kawabe, Yoh-ichi; Enomoto, Takemi
    Characterization of the slow-growth phenotype of S. cerevisiae whip/mgs1 sgs1 double deletion mutants
    In: DNA Repair, Vol. 1, 2002, Nr. 8, pp. 671 – 682
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  • Branzei, Dana; Seki, M.; Onoda, F.; Enomoto, T.
    The product of Saccharomyces cerevisiae WHIP/MGS1, a gene related to replication factor C genes, interacts functionally with DNA polymerase δ
    In: Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Vol. 268, 2002, Nr. 3, pp. 371 – 386
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  • Kawabe, Yoh-ichi; Branzei, Dana; Hayashi, Tomoko; Suzuki, Hirobumi; Masuko, Takashi; Onoda, Fumitoshi; Heo, Seok-Jin; Ikeda, Hideo; Shimamoto, Akira; Furuichi, Yasuhiro; Seki, Masayuki; Enomoto, Takemi
    A Novel Protein Interacts with the Werner's Syndrome Gene Product Physically and Functionally
    In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Vol. 276, 2001, Nr. 23, pp. 20364 – 20369
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  • Branzei, Dana; Onoda, Fumitoshi; Kawabe, Yohichi; Seki, Masayuki; Enomoto, Takemi
    Functional analysis of WHIP, a novel protein that interacts with the Werner's syndrome gene product
    In: Folia Pharmacologica Japonica, Vol. 118, 2001, Nr. SUPPL. 1, pp. 104P – 105P