* indicates the corresponding author
- Ivan Psakhye, Federica Castellucci, Dana Branzei* (2019).
SUMO-Chain-Regulated Proteasomal Degradation Timing Exemplified in DNA Replication Initiation.
Mol Cell pii: S1097-2765(19)30619-7. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.08.003.
- Takuya Abe, Ryotaro Kawasumi, Michele Giannattasio, Sabrina Dusi, Yui Yoshimoto, Keiji Miyata, Koyuki Umemura, Kouji Hirota, and Dana Branzei* (2018).
AND-1 fork protection function prevents fork resection and is essential for proliferation.
Nat Commun 9: 3091. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05586-7.
- Takuya Abe, Masato Ooka, Ryotaro Kawasumi, Keiji Miyata, Minoru Takata, Kouji Hirota, and Dana Branzei* (2018).
Warsaw Breakage Syndrome DDX11 helicase acts jointly with RAD17 in the repair of bulky lesions and replication through abasic sites.
Proc Natl Acad Sci pii: 201803110. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803110115.
- 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.
- Dana Branzei* and Barnabas Szakal (2017).
Building up and breaking down: mechanisms controlling recombination during replication.
Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 52: 381-394.
- 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.
- Dana Branzei* and Barnabas Szakal (2016).
DNA damage tolerance by recombination: Molecular pathways and DNA structures.
DNA Repair 44: 68-75.
- Dana Branzei* and Ivan Psakhye (2016).
DNA damage tolerance.
Curr Opin Cell Biol 40: 137-144.
- 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)
- 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).
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Barnabas Szakal and Dana Branzei* (2013).
Premature Cdk1/Cdc5/Mus81 pathway activation induces aberrant replication and deleterious crossover.
EMBO J 32 (8): 1155-1167
- 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.
- Dana Branzei* (2011).
The three SMC sisters.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol (6), 343.
- Dana Branzei* (2011).
Ubiquitin family modifications and template switching.
FEBS Lett, 585 (18): 2810-2817.
- 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.
- Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2010).
Maintaining genome stability at the replication fork.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 11: 208-219.
- Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2010).
Leaping forks at inverted repeats.
Genes Dev 24 (1); 5-9.
- 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.
- Dana Branzei*, Fabio Vanoli, and Marco Foiani (2008).
SUMOylation regulates Rad18-mediated template switch.
Nature 456 (7224): 915-920. (Corresponding author)
- Rodrigo Bermejo, Dana Branzei*, Marco Foiani* (2008).
Cohesion by topology: sister chromatids interlocked by DNA.
Genes Dev 17: 2297-2301.
- Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2008).
Regulation of DNA repair throughout the cell cycle.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 9: 297-308.
- Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2007).
Template Switching: from replication fork repair to genome rearrangements.
Cell 131: 1228-1230
- Dana Branzei* and Marco Foiani* (2007).
RecQ helicases queing with Srs2 to disrupt Rad51 filaments and suppress recombination.
Genes Dev 21: 3019-3026.
- 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.