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Rojas, P, Wang, J, Guglielmi, G, Sadurnì, MM, Pavlou, L, Leung, GHD, Rajagopal, V, Spill, F & Saponaro, M 2024, 'Genome-wide identification of replication fork stalling/pausing sites and the interplay between RNA Pol II transcription and DNA replication progression', Genome Biology, vol. 25, no. 1, 126. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-024-03278-8
Mackay, HL, Stone, HR, Ronson, GE, Ellis, K, Lanz, A, Aghabi, Y, Walker, AK, Starowicz, K, Garvin, AJ, Van Eijk, P, Koestler, SA, Anthony, EJ, Piberger, AL, Chauhan, AS, Conway-Thomas, P, Vaitsiankova, A, Vijayendran, S, Beesley, JF, Petermann, E, Brown, EJ, Densham, RM, Reed, SH, Dobbs, F, Saponaro, M & Morris, JR 2024, 'USP50 suppresses alternative RecQ helicase use and deleterious DNA2 activity during replication', Nature Communications, vol. 15, 8102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52250-4
Scaramuzza, S, Jones, RM, Sadurni, MM, Reynolds-Winczura, A, Poovathumkadavil, D, Farrell, A, Natsume, T, Rojas, P, Cuesta, CF, Kanemaki, MT, Saponaro, M & Gambus, A 2023, 'TRAIP resolves DNA replication-transcription conflicts during the S-phase of unperturbed cells', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 5071. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40695-y
De, S, Edwards, DM, Dwivedi, V, Wang, J, Varsally, W, Dixon, HL, Singh, AK, Owuamalam, PO, Wright, MT, Summers, RP, Hossain, MN, Price, EM, Wojewodzic, MW, Falciani, F, Hodges, NJ, Saponaro, M, Tanaka, K, Azzalin, CM, Baumann, P, Hebenstreit, D & Brogna, S 2022, 'Genome-wide chromosomal association of Upf1 is linked to Pol II transcription in Schizosaccharomyces pombe', Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 350-367. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab1249
Bayley, R, Borel, V, Moss, R, Sweatman, E, Ruis, P, Ormrod, A, Goula, A, Mottram, R, Stanage, T, Hewitt, G, Saponaro, M, Stewart, G, Boulton, S & Higgs, M 2022, 'H3K4 methylation by SETD1A/BOD1L facilitates RIF1-dependent NHEJ', Molecular Cell, vol. 82, no. 10, pp. 1924-1939.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2022.03.030
Saponaro, M 2022, 'Transcription–replication coordination', Life, vol. 12, no. 1, 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12010108
Wang, J, Rojas, P, Mao, J, Muste Sadurni, M, Garnier, O, Xiao, S, Higgs, M, Garcia, P & Saponaro, M 2021, 'Persistence of RNA transcription during DNA replication delays duplication of transcription start sites until G2/M', Cell Reports, vol. 34, no. 7, 108759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108759
Wang, J & Saponaro, M 2021, 'Protocol for analysis of G2/M DNA synthesis in human cells', STAR Protocols, vol. 2, no. 2, 100570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100570
Bowry, A, Piberger, AL, Rojas, P, Saponaro, M & Petermann, E 2018, 'BET inhibition induces HEXIM1- and RAD51-dependent conflicts between transcription and replication', Cell Reports, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 2061–2069.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.10.079
Comment/debate
Saponaro, M 2024, 'Adding a transcription-coupled repair pathway', Nature Cell Biology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 670-671. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-024-01399-7
Preprint
Scaramuzza, S, Muste Sadurni, M, Poovathumkadavil, D, Natsume, T, Rojas, P, Kanemaki, MT, Saponaro, M & Gambus, A 2022 'Ubiquitin ligase TRAIP plays an essential role during the S-phase of unperturbed cell cycle in the resolution of DNA replication – transcription conflicts' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.23.485338
De, S, Dwivedi, V, Wang, J, Edwards, DM, Varsally, W, Singh, AK, Dixon, HL, Wojewodzic, MW, Falciani, F, Hodges, NJ, Saponaro, M, Tanaka, K, Azzalin, CM, Baumann, P, Hebenstreit, D & Brogna, S 2021 'Genome-wide chromosomal association of Upf1 is linked to Pol II transcription in Schizosaccharomyces pombe' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.12.437332
Winczura, K, Ceylan, H, Sledziowska, M, Jones, M, Fagarasan, H, Wang, J, Saponaro, M, Arnold, R, Hebenstreit, D & Grzechnik, P 2021 'RPRD proteins control transcription in human cells' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.20.449126
Review article
Muste Sadurni, M & Saponaro, M 2023, 'Deregulations of RNA Pol II Subunits in Cancer', Applied Biosciences, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 459-476. https://doi.org/10.3390/applbiosci2030029
Wang, J, Sadurni, MM & Saponaro, M 2022, 'RNAPII response to transcription‐blocking DNA lesions in mammalian cells', The FEBS journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.16561
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