Cejka Petr, PhD

Pubblicazioni

• Human PIF1 clears secondary DNA structures by coupled DNA unwinding and rewinding activities
  Jayachandran, A. Mutze, M. Romaniuk, K. Hudson, J. J. R. Dello Stritto, M. R. Guerois, R. Acharya, A. Braunshier, S. Reginato, G. Senoussi, I. Rass, U. Seidel, R. Cejka, P.
  in Genes Dev (2026) Vol. pp
  
• SMARCAL1 is a candidate therapeutic target for ALT-positive tumors
  Taglialatela, A. Lee, J. Azeroglu, B. Chen, X. Dello Stritto, M. R. Gouge, A. Lama-Diaz, T. Vaitsiankova, A. Leuzzi, G. Dela Cruz, F. Khan, Z. F. Kung, A. L. Cejka, P. Lazzerini Denchi, E. Min, J. Ciccia, A.
  in Genes Dev (2026) Vol.40 pp1283-1303
  
• Non-canonical ATR signalling via NBS1 phosphorylation propagates fork slowing from stressed to unperturbed nuclear regions
  Krietsch, J. Ceppi, I. Comstock, W. J. Piquet, S. Kuster, D. Vivalda, F. Aouami, M. Thony, L. Braunshier, S. Dibitetto, D. Sartori, A. A. Polo, S. E. Smolka, M. B. Cejka, P. Lopes, M.
  in bioRxiv (2026) Vol. pp
  
• Meiotic pairing through barcode-like satellite DNA repeats
  Skrutl, L. Chavan, A. Sintsova, A. Ceppi, I. Ropp, C. J. Sunagawa, S. Cejka, P. Jagannathan, M.
  in Nat Commun (2026) Vol.17 pp7633
  
• Rap1-mediated steric hindrance protects telomeres from MRX sensing
  Mattarocci, S. Reginato, G. Cannavo, E. Roisne-Hamelin, F. Gnugge, R. Deshayes, A. Pobiega, S. Alibert, O. Morin, V. Ropars, V. Mehringer, J. Geli, V. Cuniasse, P. Charbonnier, J. B. Symington, L. S. Cejka, P. Marcand, S.
  in Nat Struct Mol Biol (2026) Vol.33 pp915-927
  
• Structural basis of Ku-mediated activation of WRN exonuclease activity
  Zahid, S. Chauvat, J. Ceppi, I. Cappiello, F. Perdichizzi, B. Frit, P. Gomez, D. Hardwick, S. W. Legrand, P. Karazi, J. Baconnais, S. Pehau-Arnaudet, G. Britton, S. Charbonnier, J. B. Chaplin, A. K. Pichierri, P. Cejka, P. Calsou, P. Ropars, V.
  in Nat Commun (2026) Vol.17 pp6369
  
• Critical roles of MCM8 in meiotic recombination during mouse spermatogenesis
  Surarapu, L. K. Tilton, K. Stritto, M. R. D. Acharya, A. Menendez, A. M. Lu, M. Shaheen, N. Liang, S. Iyer, M. Cejka, P. Pratto, F. Jain, D.
  in bioRxiv (2026) Vol. pp
  
• ERCC6L2 ensures repair fidelity for staggered-end DNA double-strand breaks
  Aird, E. J. Serrano-Benitez, A. Siegner, S. M. Cannavo, E. Belotserkovskaya, R. Gueorguieva, N. Fielden, J. Cullot, G. Ammann, S. Bader, A. S. Gupta, V. Andrieux, G. Raab, R. Del Rey Gonzalez, M. Cathomen, T. Cejka, P. Corn, J. E. Jackson, S. P.
  in Nat Commun (2026) Vol. pp
  
• Rad51 determines pathway usage in post-replication repair
  Meyer, D. Gore, S. K. Liu, J. Ceballos, S. J. Hung, S. H. Reginato, G. Cano-Linares, M. I. Maslowska, K. H. Villafanez, F. Fasching, C. Ede, C. Pages, V. Prado, F. Cejka, P. Heyer, W. D.
  in Nat Commun (2026) Vol.17 pp1359
  
• IFI16 senses and protects stalled replication forks
  Gamble, A. Ward, T. A. Wheeler, O. P. G. Morris, J. P. Jones, C. M. Bennett, L. G. Vernon, E. G. Thanendran, V. Ceppi, I. Halder, S. Borrello, D. Walker, T. D. J. Rajan, J. Suleiman, H. Harrison, D. Ashetiwi, M. Dunphy, G. Jackson-Jones, L. H. Cejka, P. Unterholzner, L. Staples, C. J.
  in Mol Cell (2026) Vol.86 pp258-272.e6
  
• Disruption of protein-protein interaction hotspots in the C-terminal domain of MLH1 confers mismatch repair deficiency
  Fishwick, K. M. Gomez Vieito, D. Greco, G. Collotta, G. Gatti, M. Kulik, A. A. Guerois, R. Corbeski, I. Phadte, A. S. Senoussi, I. Cejka, P. Pluciennik, A. Porro, A. Sartori, A. A.
  in NAR Cancer (2025) Vol.7 ppzcaf055
  
• FIGNL1 inhibits homologous recombination in BRCA2 deficient cells by dissociating RAD51 filaments
  Kuthethur, R. Vz, S. N. Sengodan, S. K. Fonseca, C. Braunshier, S. Nagar, N. Acharya, A. Wang, X. Theil, A. F. Ibini, O. Manolika, E. M. de Koning, K. Dessapt, J. Fradet-Turcotte, A. Lebbink, J. H. G. Kanaar, R. Poluri, K. M. Sharan, S. K. Cejka, P. Ray Chaudhuri, A.
  in Science (2025) Vol.390 ppeadt1210
  
• Mechanism of trinucleotide repeat expansion by MutSbeta-MutLgamma and contraction by FAN1
  Senoussi, I. Mengoli, V. Cerana, A. Rinaldi, A. Marco, A. Reginato, G. Moro, S. G. Acharya, A. Roy, M. Jayachandran, A. Cannavo, E. Ceppi, I. Cejka, P.
  in Nat Commun (2025) Vol.16 pp9445
  
• Tumor-associated neutrophil precursors impair homologous DNA repair and promote sensitivity to PARP inhibition
  Mukherjee, S. Garda, C. Boffa, L. Elia, A. R. Massara, M. Balia, M. T. Brina, D. Mosole, S. Campagnari, A. Cassanmagnago, G. A. Rinaldi, A. Lazzaroni, G. Jarrossay, D. Morone, D. Ceppi, I. De Sillo, R. Giacomini, I. Craparotta, I. Di Rito, L. Barry, S. Laczko, E. Streb, S. Meani, F. Di Lascio, S. Hynes, N. Lugli, E. Puccio, S. Sammut, S. J. Perriard, U. Harder, Y. Rossi, L. Gasparri, M. L. Bolis, M. Cejka, P. Calcinotto, A.
  in Nat Commun (2025) Vol.16 pp6999
  
• ZNF280A links DNA double-strand break repair to human 22q11.2 distal deletion syndrome
  Clarke, T. L. Cho, H. M. Ceppi, I. Gao, B. Yadav, T. Silveira, G. G. Boon, R. Martinez-Pastor, B. Amoh, N. Y. A. Machin, B. Bernasocchi, T. Ashfaq, D. Mendez, J. Kamaliyan, Z. Del Rio Pantoja, J. Rogines, G. S. Crowley, B. T. McGinn, D. E. Giunta, V. Tran, O. Zackai, E. H. Lan, L. Zou, L. Emanuel, B. S. McDonald-McGinn, D. M. Cejka, P. Mostoslavsky, R.
  in Nat Cell Biol (2025) Vol.27 pp1006-1020.
  
• EXO1 promotes the meiotic MLH1-MLH3 endonuclease through conserved interactions with MLH1, MSH4 and DNA
  Roy, M. Sanchez, A. Guerois, R. Senoussi, I. Cerana, A. Sgrignani, J. Cavalli, A. Rinaldi, A. Cejka, P.
  in Nat Commun (2025) Vol.16 pp4141
  
• The PIN1-p38-CtIP signalling axis protects stalled replication forks from deleterious degradation
  Vivalda, F. Gatti, M. Manfredi, L. Dogan, H. Porro, A. Collotta, G. Ceppi, I. von Aesch, C. van Ackeren, V. Wild, S. Steger, M. Canovas, B. Cubillos-Rojas, M. Riera, A. Cejka, P. Nebreda, A. R. Dibitetto, D. Rottenberg, S. Sartori, A. A.
  in Nucleic Acids Res (2025) Vol.53 ppgkaf278.
  
• Comprehensive interrogation of synthetic lethality in the DNA damage response
  Fielden, J. Siegner, S. M. Gallagher, D. N. Schroder, M. S. Dello Stritto, M. R. Lam, S. Kobel, L. Schlapansky, M. F. Jackson, S. P. Cejka, P. Jost, M. Corn, J. E.
  in Nature (2025) Vol.640 pp1093-1102
  
• Mechanisms and regulation of DNA end resection in the maintenance of genome stability
  Ceccaldi, R. Cejka, P.
  in Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol (2025) Vol.26 pp586-599.
  
• MRN-CtIP, EXO1, and DNA2-WRN/BLM act bidirectionally to process DNA gaps in PARPi-treated cells without strand cleavage
  Seppa, I. M. Ceppi, I. Tennakoon, M. Reginato, G. Jackson, J. Rouault, C. D. Agashe, S. Sviderskiy, V. O. Limbu, M. Lantelme, E. Meroni, A. Braunshier, S. Borrello, D. Verma, P. Cejka, P. Vindigni, A.
  in Genes Dev (2025) Vol.39 pp582-602.
  
• Mechanism of BRCA1-BARD1 function in DNA end resection and DNA protection
  Ceppi, I. Dello Stritto, M. R. Mutze, M. Braunshier, S. Mengoli, V. Reginato, G. Vo, H. M. P. Jimeno, S. Acharya, A. Roy, M. Sanchez, A. Halder, S. Howard, S. M. Guerois, R. Huertas, P. Noordermeer, S. M. Seidel, R. Cejka, P.
  in Nature (2024) Vol.634 pp492-500
  
• Exploring the removal of Spo11 and topoisomerases from DNA breaks in S. cerevisiae by human Tyrosyl DNA Phosphodiesterase 2
  Johnson, D. Allison, R. M. Cannavo, E. Cejka, P. Harper, J. A. Neale, M. J.
  in DNA Repair (Amst) (2024) Vol.142 pp103757
  
• Sae2 controls Mre11 endo- and exonuclease activities by different mechanisms
  Tamai, T. Reginato, G. Ojiri, R. Morita, I. Avrutis, A. Cejka, P. Shinohara, M. Sugimoto, K.
  in Nat Commun (2024) Vol.15 pp7221
  
• HLTF resolves G4s and promotes G4-induced replication fork slowing to maintain genome stability
  Bai, G. Endres, T. Kuhbacher, U. Mengoli, V. Greer, B. H. Peacock, E. M. Newton, M. D. Stanage, T. Dello Stritto, M. R. Lungu, R. Crossley, M. P. Sathirachinda, A. Cortez, D. Boulton, S. J. Cejka, P. Eichman, B. F. Cimprich, K. A.
  in Mol Cell (2024) Vol.84 pp3044-3060.
  
• HLTF disrupts Cas9-DNA post-cleavage complexes to allow DNA break processing
  Reginato, G. Dello Stritto, M. R. Wang, Y. Hao, J. Pavani, R. Schmitz, M. Halder, S. Morin, V. Cannavo, E. Ceppi, I. Braunshier, S. Acharya, A. Ropars, V. Charbonnier, J. B. Jinek, M. Nussenzweig, A. Ha, T. Cejka, P.
  in Nat Commun (2024) Vol.15 pp5789
  
• Structure and repair of replication-coupled DNA breaks
  Pavani, R. Tripathi, V. Vrtis, K. B. Zong, D. Chari, R. Callen, E. Pankajam, A. V. Zhen, G. Matos-Rodrigues, G. Yang, J. Wu, S. Reginato, G. Wu, W. Cejka, P. Walter, J. C. Nussenzweig, A.
  in Science (2024) Vol.385 ppeado3867
  
• Molecular insights into the activation of Mre11-Rad50 endonuclease activity by Sae2/CtIP
  Nicolas, Y. Bret, H. Cannavo, E. Acharya, A. Cejka, P. Borde, V. Guerois, R.
  in Mol Cell (2024) Vol.84 pp2223-2237 e4
  
• Mechanism of DNA unwinding by MCM8-9 in complex with HROB
  Acharya, A. Bret, H. Huang, J. W. Mutze, M. Gose, M. Kissling, V. M. Seidel, R. Ciccia, A. Guerois, R. Cejka, P.
  in Nat Commun (2024) Vol.15 pp3584
  
• Dbf4-dependent kinase promotes cell cycle controlled resection of DNA double-strand breaks and repair by homologous recombination
  Galanti, L. Peritore, M. Gnugge, R. Cannavo, E. Heipke, J. Palumbieri, M. D. Steigenberger, B. Symington, L. S. Cejka, P. Pfander, B.
  in Nat Commun (2024) Vol.15 pp2890
  
• DNA sensing and repair systems unexpectedly team up against cancer
  Monticelli, S. Cejka, P.
  in Nature (2024) Vol. pp
  
• Xrs2/NBS1 promote end-bridging activity of the MRE11-RAD50 complex
  Moller, C. Sharma, R. Oz, R. Reginato, G. Cannavo, E. Ceppi, I. Sriram, K. K. Cejka, P. Westerlund, F.
  in Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2023) Vol.695 pp149464
  
• Phase separation properties of RPA combine high-affinity ssDNA binding with dynamic condensate functions at telomeres
  Spegg, V. Panagopoulos, A. Stout, M. Krishnan, A. Reginato, G. Imhof, R. Roschitzki, B. Cejka, P. Altmeyer, M.
  in Nat Struct Mol Biol (2023) Vol.30 pp451-462.
  
• Sequence and chromatin features guide DNA double-strand break resection initiation
  Gnugge, R. Reginato, G. Cejka, P. Symington, L. S.
  in Mol Cell (2023) Vol.83 pp1237-1250.
  
• PLK1 regulates CtIP and DNA2 interplay in long-range DNA end resection
  Ceppi, I. Cannavo, E. Bret, H. Camarillo, R. Vivalda, F. Thakur, R. S. Romero-Franco, A. Sartori, A. A. Huertas, P. Guerois, R. Cejka, P.
  in Genes Dev (2023) Vol.37 pp119-135.
  
• WRN helicase and mismatch repair complexes independently and synergistically disrupt cruciform DNA structures
  Mengoli, V. Ceppi, I. Sanchez, A. Cannavo, E. Halder, S. Scaglione, S. Gaillard, P. H. McHugh, P. J. Riesen, N. Pettazzoni, P. Cejka, P.
  in EMBO J (2022) Vol. ppe111998
  
• Double-stranded DNA binding function of RAD51 in DNA protection and its regulation by BRCA2
  Halder, S. Sanchez, A. Ranjha, L. Reginato, G. Ceppi, I. Acharya, A. Anand, R. Cejka, P.
  in Mol Cell (2022) Vol. pp
  
• Strand annealing and motor driven activities of SMARCAL1 and ZRANB3 are stimulated by RAD51 and the paralog complex
  Halder, S. Ranjha, L. Taglialatela, A. Ciccia, A. Cejka, P.
  in Nucleic Acids Res (2022) Vol. pp
  
• Mre11-Rad50 oligomerization promotes DNA double-strand break repair
  Kissling, V. M. Reginato, G. Bianco, E. Kasaciunaite, K. Tilma, J. Cereghetti, G. Schindler, N. Lee, S. S. Guerois, R. Luke, B. Seidel, R. Cejka, P. Peter, M.
  in Nat Commun (2022) Vol.13 pp2374
  
• The CDK1-TOPBP1-PLK1 axis regulates the Bloom’s syndrome helicase BLM to suppress crossover recombination in somatic cells
  Balbo Pogliano, C. Ceppi, I. Giovannini, S. Petroulaki, V. Palmer, N. Uliana, F. Gatti, M. Kasaciunaite, K. Freire, R. Seidel, R. Altmeyer, M. Cejka, P. Matos, J.
  in Sci Adv (2022) Vol.8 ppeabk0221
  
• DNA End Resection: Mechanism and Control
  Cejka, P. Symington, L. S.
  in Annu Rev Genet (2021) Vol.55 pp285-307
  
• Distinct RPA domains promote recruitment and the helicase-nuclease activities of Dna2
  Acharya, A. Kasaciunaite, K. Gose, M. Kissling, V. Guerois, R. Seidel, R. Cejka, P.
  in Nat Commun (2021) Vol.12 pp6521
  
• Crossover or non-crossover outcomes: tailored processing of homologous recombination intermediates
  Sanchez, A. Reginato, G. Cejka, P.
  in Curr Opin Genet Dev (2021) Vol.71 pp39-47
  
• Inhibition of MRN activity by a telomere protein motif
  Khayat, F. Cannavo, E. Alshmery, M. Foster, W. R. Chahwan, C. Maddalena, M. Smith, C. Oliver, A. W. Watson, A. T. Carr, A. M. Cejka, P. Bianchi, A.
  in Nat Commun (2021) Vol.12 pp3856
  
• Molecular basis of the dual role of the Mlh1-Mlh3 endonuclease in MMR and in meiotic crossover formation
  Dai, J. Sanchez, A. Adam, C. Ranjha, L. Reginato, G. Chervy, P. Tellier-Lebegue, C. Andreani, J. Guerois, R. Ropars, V. Le Du, M. H. Maloisel, L. Martini, E. Legrand, P. Thureau, A. Cejka, P. Borde, V. Charbonnier, J. B.
  in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2021) Vol.118 ppe2022704118
  
• The Pif1 helicase is actively inhibited during meiotic recombination which restrains gene conversion tract length
  Vernekar, D. V. Reginato, G. Adam, C. Ranjha, L. Dingli, F. Marsolier, M. C. Loew, D. Guerois, R. Llorente, B. Cejka, P. Borde, V.
  in Nucleic Acids Res (2021) Vol.49 pp4522-4533
  
• Sae2 and Rif2 regulate MRX endonuclease activity at DNA double-strand breaks in opposite manners
  Marsella, A., Gobbini, E., Cassani, C., Tisi, R., Cannavo, E., Reginato, G., Cejka, P., Longhese, M. P.
  in Cell Rep (2021) Vol.34 pp108906
  
• Single-molecule studies illuminate the function of RAD51 paralogs
  Cejka, P
  in Mol Cell (2021) Vol.81 pp898-900
  
• MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 Complex Is Sufficient to Promote Transcription by RNA Polymerase II at Double-Strand Breaks by Melting DNA Ends
  Sharma, S. Anand, R. Zhang, X. Francia, S. Michelini, F. Galbiati, A. Williams, H. Ronato, D. A. Masson, J. Y. Rothenberg, E. Cejka, P. d'Adda di Fagagna, F.
  in Cell Rep (2021) Vol.34 pp108565
  
• A Disease-Causing Single Amino Acid Deletion in the Coiled-Coil Domain of RAD50 Impairs MRE11 Complex Functions in Yeast and Humans
  Chansel-Da Cruz, M. Hohl, M. Ceppi, I. Kermasson, L. Maggiorella, L. Modesti, M. de Villartay, J. P. Ileri, T. Cejka, P. Petrini, J. H. J. Revy, P.
  in Cell Rep (2020) Vol.33 pp108559
  
• Exo1 recruits Cdc5 polo kinase to MutLgamma to ensure efficient meiotic crossover formation
  Sanchez, A. Adam, C. Rauh, F. Duroc, Y. Ranjha, L. Lombard, B. Mu, X. Wintrebert, M. Loew, D. Guarne, A. Gnan, S. Chen, C. L. Keeney, S. Cejka, P. Guerois, R. Klein, F. Charbonnier, J. B. Borde, V.
  in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2020) Vol.117 pp30577-30588
  
• Phosphorylated CtIP bridges DNA to promote annealing of broken ends
  Oz, R. Howard, S. M. Sharma, R. Tornkvist, H. Ceppi, I. Kk, S. Kristiansson, E. Cejka, P. Westerlund, F.
  in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2020) Vol.117 pp21403-21412
  
• Regulation of the MLH1-MLH3 endonuclease in meiosis
  Cannavo, E. Sanchez, A. Anand, R. Ranjha, L. Hugener, J. Adam, C. Acharya, A. Weyland, N. Aran-Guiu, X. Charbonnier, J. B. Hoffmann, E. R. Borde, V. Matos, J. Cejka, P.
  in Nature (2020) Vol.586 pp618-622
  
• MRNIP is a replication fork protection factor
  Bennett, L. G. Wilkie, A. M. Antonopoulou, E. Ceppi, I. Sanchez, A. Vernon, E. G. Gamble, A. Myers, K. N. Collis, S. J. Cejka, P. Staples, C. J.
  in Sci. Adv. (2020) Vol.6 ppeaba5974
  
• The iron-sulphur cluster in human DNA2 is required for all biochemical activities of DNA2
  Mariotti, L. Wild, S. Brunoldi, G. Piceni, A. Ceppi, I. Kummer, S. Lutz, R. E. Cejka, P. Gari, K.
  in Commun Biol (2020) Vol.3 pp322
  
• MCM8IP activates the MCM8-9 helicase to promote DNA synthesis and homologous recombination upon DNA damage
  Huang, J. W. Acharya, A. Taglialatela, A. Nambiar, T. S. Cuella-Martin, R. Leuzzi, G. Hayward, S. B. Joseph, S. A. Brunette, G. J. Anand, R. Soni, R. K. Clark, N. L. Bernstein, K. A. Cejka, P. Ciccia, A.
  in Nat Commun (2020) Vol.11 pp2948
  
• Phosphorylation of the RecQ Helicase Sgs1/BLM Controls Its DNA Unwinding Activity during Meiosis and Mitosis
  Grigaitis, R. Ranjha, L. Wild, P. Kasaciunaite, K. Ceppi, I. Kissling, V. Henggeler, A. Susperregui, A. Peter, M. Seidel, R. Cejka, P. Matos, J.
  in Dev Cell (2020) Vol.53 pp706-723
  
• The MRE11 complex: A versatile toolkit for the repair of broken DNA
  Reginato, G. Cejka, P.
  in DNA Repair (Amst) (2020) Vol.91-92 pp102869
  
• The internal region of CtIP negatively regulates DNA end resection
  Howard, S. M. Ceppi, I. Anand, R. Cejka, P.
  in Nucleic Acids Res (2020) Vol. pp
  
• CtIP promotes the motor activity of DNA2 to accelerate long-range DNA end resection
  Ceppi, I. Howard, S. M. Kasaciunaite, K. Anand, R. Seidel, R. Cejka, P.
  in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2020) Vol.117 pp8859-8869
  
• Regulated Proteolysis of MutSgamma Controls Meiotic Crossing Over
  He, W. Rao, Hbdp Tang, S. Kulkarni, D. S. Ma, Y. Chang, M. A. W. Hall, C. Bragg, J. W. Manasca, H. S. Baker, C. Verhees, G. F. Ranjha, L. Chen, X. Hollingsworth, N. M. Cejka, P. Hunter, N.
  in Mol Cell (2020) Vol.78 pp168-183 e5
  
• Competing interaction partners modulate the activity of Sgs1 helicase during DNA end resection
  Kasaciunaite, K. Fettes, F. Levikova, M. Anand, R. Cejka, P. Seidel, R.
  in EMBO J (2019) Vol.38 ppe101516
  
• Sumoylation regulates the stability and nuclease activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dna2
  Ranjha, L. Levikova, M. Altmannova, V. Cejka, P.
  in Commun Biol (2019) Vol.2 pp174
  
• Seeing is believing: DNA zipping promotes DNA repair
  Cejka, P.
  in J Biol Chem (2019) Vol.294 pp3321-3322
  
• Stepwise 5′ DNA end-specific resection of DNA breaks by the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 and Sae2 nuclease ensemble
  Cannavo, E. Reginato, G. Cejka, P.
  in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2019) Vol.116 pp5505-5513
  
• NBS1 promotes the endonuclease activity of the MRE11-RAD50 complex by sensing CtIP phosphorylation
  Anand, R. Jasrotia, A. Bundschuh, D. Ranjha, L. Stucki, M. Cejka, P.
  in EMBO J (2019) Vol.38 ppe101005
  
• BRCA2 controls DNA:RNA hybrid level at DSBs by mediating RNase H2 recruitment
  D'Alessandro, G. Whelan, D. R. Howard, S. M. Renaudin, X. Adamowicz, M. Iannelli, F. Jones-Weinert, C. W. Lee, M. Matti, V. Lee, W. T. C. Morten, M. J. Venkitaraman, A. R. Cejka, P. Rothenberg, E. d'Adda di Fagagna, F.
  in Nat Commun (2018) Vol.9 pp5376
  
• Regulatory control of DNA end resection by Sae2 phosphorylation
  Cannavo, E. Johnson, D. Andres, S. N. Reinert, J. K. Garcia, V. Erie, D. A. Hess, D. Thoma, N. H. Enchev, R. I. Peter, M. Williams, R. S. Neale, M. J. Cejka, P.
  in Nat Commun (2018) Vol.9 pp4016
  
• A meiotic XPF-ERCC1-like complex recognizes joint molecule recombination intermediates to promote crossover formation
  De Muyt, A. Pyatnitskaya, A. Andreani, J. Ramus, C. Laureau, R. Fernandez-Vega, A. Holoch, D. Girard, E. Govin, J. Margueron, R. Coute, Y. Cejka, P. Guerois, R. Borde, V.
  in Genes Dev (2018) Vol.32 pp283-296
  
• Methods to Study DNA End Resection I: Recombinant Protein Purification
  Anand, R. Pinto, C. Cejka, P.
  in Methods Enzymol (2018) Vol.600 pp25-66
  
• Main steps in DNA double-strand break repair: an introduction to homologous recombination and related processes
  Ranjha, L. Howard, S. M. Cejka, P.
  in Chromosoma (2018) Vol.127 pp187-214
  
• Methods to Study DNA End Resection II: Biochemical Reconstitution Assays
  Pinto, C. Anand, R. Cejka, P.
  in Methods Enzymol (2018) Vol.600 pp67-106
  
• Physiological protein blocks direct the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 and Sae2 nuclease complex to initiate DNA end resection
  Reginato, G. Cannavo, E. Cejka, P.
  in Genes Dev (2017) Vol.31 pp2325-2330
  
• Biochemistry: Complex assistance for DNA invasion
  Cejka, P.
  in Nature (2017) Vol.550 pp342-343
  
• Restoration of Replication Fork Stability in BRCA1- and BRCA2-Deficient Cells by Inactivation of SNF2-Family Fork Remodelers
  Taglialatela, A. Alvarez, S. Leuzzi, G. Ranjha, L. Huang, J. W. Madubata, C. Anand, R. Levy, B. Rabadan, R. Cejka, P. Costanzo, V. Ciccia, A.
  in Mol Cell (2017) Vol.68 pp414-430 e8
  
• SAMHD1 Promotes DNA End Resection to Facilitate DNA Repair by Homologous Recombination
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• The motor activity of DNA2 functions as an ssDNA translocase to promote DNA end resection
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• The Mre11-Nbs1 Interface Is Essential for Viability and Tumor Suppression
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• Concerted action of the MutLbeta heterodimer and Mer3 helicase regulates the global extent of meiotic gene conversion
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• Phosphorylated CtIP Functions as a Co-factor of the MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 Endonuclease in DNA End Resection
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• The MMS22L-TONSL heterodimer directly promotes RAD51-dependent recombination upon replication stress
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• Replication intermediates that escape Dna2 activity are processed by Holliday junction resolvase Yen1
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• Xrs2 Dependent and Independent Functions of the Mre11-Rad50 Complex
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• Human DNA2 possesses a cryptic DNA unwinding activity that functionally integrates with BLM or WRN helicases
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• Force regulated dynamics of RPA on a DNA fork
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• H4K20me0 marks post-replicative chromatin and recruits the TONSL-MMS22L DNA repair complex
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• RECQL4 Promotes DNA End Resection in Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks
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• DNA End Resection: Nucleases Team Up with the Right Partners to Initiate Homologous Recombination
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• The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dna2 can function as a sole nuclease in the processing of Okazaki fragments in DNA replication
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• DNA2 drives processing and restart of reversed replication forks in human cells
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• Top3-Rmi1 dissolve Rad51-mediated D loops by a topoisomerase-based mechanism
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• Sae2 promotes dsDNA endonuclease activity within Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 to resect DNA breaks
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• DNA2 cooperates with the WRN and BLM RecQ helicases to mediate long-range DNA end resection in human cells
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• Structural and mechanistic insight into Holliday-junction dissolution by topoisomerase IIIalpha and RMI1
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• The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mlh1-Mlh3 heterodimer is an endonuclease that preferentially binds to Holliday junctions
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• Nuclease activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dna2 inhibits its potent DNA helicase activity
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• Pif1 family helicases suppress genome instability at G-quadruplex motifs
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• Ribonucleotides misincorporated into DNA act as strand-discrimination signals in eukaryotic mismatch repair
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• Relationship of DNA degradation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae exonuclease 1 and its stimulation by RPA and Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 to DNA end resection
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• Decatenation of DNA by the S. cerevisiae Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1 and RPA complex: a mechanism for disentangling chromosomes
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• DNA end resection by Dna2-Sgs1-RPA and its stimulation by Top3-Rmi1 and Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2
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• The full-length Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sgs1 protein is a vigorous DNA helicase that preferentially unwinds holliday junctions
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• Interplay of DNA repair pathways controls methylation damage toxicity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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• Expression of the MutL homologue hMLH3 in human cells and its role in DNA mismatch repair
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• Homologous recombination rescues mismatch-repair-dependent cytotoxicity of S(N)1-type methylating agents in S. cerevisiae
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• Somatic hypermutation and mismatch repair in non-B cells
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• High doses of SN1 type methylating agents activate DNA damage signaling cascades that are largely independent of mismatch repair
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• Mismatch repair-dependent G2 checkpoint induced by low doses of SN1 type methylating agents requires the ATR kinase
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• Dependence of the cytotoxicity of DNA-damaging agents on the mismatch repair status of human cells
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• Is mismatch repair really required for ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage signaling?
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• Differential killing of mismatch repair-deficient and -proficient cells: towards the therapy of tumors with microsatellite instability
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• Mismatch repair-dependent transcriptome changes in human cells treated with the methylating agent N-methyl-n’-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine
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• Methylation-induced G(2)/M arrest requires a full complement of the mismatch repair protein hMLH1
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• Dissection of the functions of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD6 postreplicative repair group in mutagenesis and UV sensitivity
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