Publications Dana Branzei

* indicates the corresponding author

1. Ryotaro Kawasumi, Takuya Abe*, Hiroshi Arakawa, Massimiliano Garre, Kouji Hirota, and Dana Branzei* (2017).
   ESCO1/2 roles in chromosome structure and interphase chromatin organization.
   Genes Dev, doi: 10.1101/gad.306084.117.


2. Dana Branzei* and Barnabas Szakal (2017).
   Building up and breaking down: mechanisms controlling recombination during replication.
   Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 52: 381-394.


3. Michele Giannattasio* and Dana Branzei* (2017).
   S-phase checkpoint regulations that preserve replication and chromosome integrity upon dNTP depletion.
   Cell Mol Life Sci 74: 2361-2380.


4. Takuya Abe, Ryotaro Kawasumi, Hiroshi Arakawa, Tetsuya Hori, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Ana Losada, Tatsuo Fukagawa, and Dana Branzei* (2016).
   Chromatin determinants of the inner-centromere rely on replication factors with functions that impart cohesion.
   Oncotarget, doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.11982.


5. Dana Branzei* and Barnabas Szakal (2016).
   DNA damage tolerance by recombination: Molecular pathways and DNA structures.
   DNA Repair 44: 68-75.


6. Dana Branzei* and Ivan Psakhye (2016).
   DNA damage tolerance.
   Curr Opin Cell Biol 40: 137-144.


7. Demis Menolfi, Axel Delamarre, Armelle Lengronne, Philippe Pasero and Dana Branzei* (2015).
   Essential Roles of the Smc5/6 Complex in Replication through Natural Pausing Sites and Endogenous DNA Damage Tolerance.
   Mol Cell 60: 835-846. (see also comments on this article in PMID: 2668759, PMID:26694861)


8. Madhusoodanan Urulangodi, Marek Sebesta, Demis Menolfi, Barnabas Szakal, Julie Sollier, Alexandra Sisakova, Lumir Krejci, and Dana Branzei* (2015).
   Local regulation of the Srs2 helicase by the SUMO-like domain protein Esc2 promotes recombination at sites of stalled replication.
   Genes Dev 29 (19). (see also comments on this article in PMID: 26587752).


9. Marco Fumasoni, Katharina Zwicky, Fabio Vanoli, Massimo Lopes and Dana Branzei* (2015).
   Error-free DNA Damage Tolerance and Sister Chromatid Proximity during DNA Replication Rely on the Pola/Primase/Ctf4 Complex.
   Mol Cell 57 (5): 812-823.


10. Michele Giannattasio, Katharina Zwicky, Cindy Follonier, Marco Foiani, Massimo Lopes and Dana Branzei* (2014).
    Visualization of recombination-mediated damage-bypass by template switching.
    Nat Struct Mol Biol 21(10): 884-892


11. Victor Gonzalez-Huici, Barnabas Szakal, Madhusoodanan Urulangodi, Ivan Psakhye, Federica Castellucci, Demis Menolfi, Eerappa Rajakumara, Marco Fumasoni, Rodrigo Bermejo, Stefan Jentsch, and Dana Branzei* (2014).
    DNA bending facilitates the error-free DNA damage tolerance pathway and upholds genome integrity.
    EMBO J 33(4): 327-340.


12. Barnabas Szakal and Dana Branzei* (2013).
    Premature Cdk1/Cdc5/Mus81 pathway activation induces aberrant replication and deleterious crossover.
    EMBO J 32 (8): 1155-1167


13. Georgios Karras, Marco Fumasoni, Grzegorz Sienski, Fabio Vanoli, Dana Branzei*, Stefan Jentsch* (2013)
    Non-Canonical Role of the 9-1-1 Clamp in the Error-Free DNA Damage Tolerance Pathway.
    Mol Cell 7 49(3): 536-46.


14. Dana Branzei* (2011).
    The three SMC sisters.
    Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol (6), 343.


15. Dana Branzei* (2011).
    Ubiquitin family modifications and template switching.
    FEBS Lett, 585 (18): 2810-2817.


16. Fabio Vanoli, Marco Fumasoni, Barnabas Szakal, Laurent Maloisel, Dana Branzei* (2010).
    Replication and recombination factors contributing to recombination-dependent bypass of DNA lesions by template switch.
    PLoS Genet, 6(11):e1001205.


17. Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2010).
    Maintaining genome stability at the replication fork.
    Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 11: 208-219.


18. Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2010).
    Leaping forks at inverted repeats.
    Genes Dev 24 (1); 5-9.


19. Julie Sollier, Robert Driscoll, Federica Castellucci, Marco Foiani, Stephen P. Jackson, and Dana Branzei* (2009).
    The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Esc2 and Smc5-6 proteins promote sister chromatid junction mediated intra-S repair.
    Mol Biol Cell (6): 1671-1682.


20. Dana Branzei*, Fabio Vanoli, and Marco Foiani (2008).
    SUMOylation regulates Rad18-mediated template switch.
    Nature 456 (7224): 915-920. (Corresponding author)


21. Rodrigo Bermejo, Dana Branzei*, Marco Foiani* (2008).
    Cohesion by topology: sister chromatids interlocked by DNA.
    Genes Dev 17: 2297-2301.


22. Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2008).
    Regulation of DNA repair throughout the cell cycle.
    Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 9: 297-308.


23. Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2007).
    Template Switching: from replication fork repair to genome rearrangements.
    Cell 131: 1228-1230


24. Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2007).
    RecQ helicases queing with Srs2 to disrupt Rad51 filaments and suppress recombination.
    Genes Dev 21: 3019-3026.


25. Dana Branzei*, Julie Sollier, Giordano Liberi, Xiaolan Zhao, Daisuke Maeda, Masayuki Seki, Takemi Enomoto, Kunihiro Ohta, and Marco Foiani (2006).
    Ubc9- and Mms21- mediated sumoylation counteracts recombinogenic events at damaged replication forks.
    Cell 127 (3): 509-522.