Publications
Article
Hudson, Jessica J R and Rass, Ulrich (2021) Dna2 in chromosome stability and cell survival—is it all about replication forks? International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (8). a3984 1-24. ISSN 1661-6596
Appanah, Rowin, Jones, David, Falquet, Benoît and Rass, Ulrich (2020) Limiting homologous recombination at stalled replication forks is essential for cell viability: DNA2 to the rescue. Current Genetics. ISSN 0172-8083
Falquet, Benoît, Ölmezer, Gizem, Enkner, Franz, Klein, Dominique, Challa, Kiran, Appanah, Rowin, Gasser, Susan M and Rass, Ulrich (2020) Disease-associated DNA2 nuclease–helicase protects cells from lethal chromosome under-replication. Nucleic Acids Research, 48 (13). pp. 7265-7278. ISSN 1362-4962
Fontana, Gabriele A and Rass, Ulrich (2019) Compartmentalized DNA repair: Rif1 S-acylation links DNA double-strand break repair to the nuclear membrane. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. ISSN 2372-3556
Fontana, Gabriele A, Hess, Daniel, Reinert, Julia K, Mattarocci, Stefano, Falquet, Benoît, Klein, Dominique, Shore, David, Thomä, Nicolas H and Rass, Ulrich (2019) Rif1 S-acylation mediates DNA double-strand break repair at the inner nuclear membrane. Nature Communications, 10 (2535). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2041-1723
Falquet, Benoît and Rass, Ulrich (2019) Structure-specific endonucleases and the resolution of chromosome underreplication. Genes, 10 (3). p. 232. ISSN 2073-4425
Rass, Ulrich (2019) Freedom of movement. Nature Chemical Biology, 15 (37). pp. 209-210. ISSN 1552-4450
Fontana, Gabriele A, Reinert, Julia K, Thomä, Nicolas H and Rass, Ulrich (2018) Shepherding DNA ends: Rif1 protects telomeres and chromosome breaks. Microbial Cell, 5 (7). pp. 327-343. ISSN 2311-2638
Mattarocci, Stefano, Reinert, Julia K, Bunker, Richard D, Fontana, Gabriele A, Shi, Tianlai, Klein, Dominique, Cavadini, Simone, Faty, Mahamadou, Shyian, Maksym, Hafner, Lukas, Shore, David, Thomä, Nicolas H and Rass, Ulrich (2017) Rif1 maintains telomeres and mediates DNA repair by encasing DNA ends. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 24 (7). pp. 588-595. ISSN 1545-9985
Falquet, Benoît and Rass, Ulrich (2017) A new role for Holliday junction resolvase Yen1 in processing DNA replication intermediates exposes Dna2 as an accessory replicative helicase. Microbial Cell, 4 (1). pp. 32-34. ISSN 2311-2638
Ölmezer, Gizem, Levikova, Maryna, Klein, Dominique, Falquet, Benoît, Fontana, Gabriele Alessandro, Cejka, Petr and Rass, Ulrich (2016) Replication intermediates that escape Dna2 activity are processed by Holliday junction resolvase Yen1. Nature Communications, 7. 13157 1-13. ISSN 2041-1723
Ölmezer, Gizem, Klein, Dominique and Rass, Ulrich (2015) DNA repair defects ascribed to pby1 are caused by disruption of Holliday junction resolvase Mus81-Mms4. DNA repair, 33. pp. 17-23. ISSN 1568-7856
Rass, Ulrich (2013) Resolving branched DNA intermediates with structure-specific nucleases during replication in eukaryotes. Chromosoma, 122 (6). pp. 499-515. ISSN 0009-5915
Shi, Tianlai, Bunker, Richard D, Mattarocci, Stefano, Ribeyre, Cyril, Faty, Mahamadou, Gut, Heinz, Scrima, Andrea, Rass, Ulrich, Rubin, Seth M, Shore, David and Thomä, Nicolas H (2013) Rif1 and Rif2 shape telomere function and architecture through multivalent Rap1 interactions. Cell, 153 (6). pp. 1340-1353. ISSN 0092-8674
Rass, Ulrich, Compton, Sarah A, Matos, Joao, Singleton, Martin R, Ip, Stephen C Y, Blanco, Miguel G, Griffith, Jack D and West, Stephen C (2010) Mechanism of Holliday junction resolution by the human GEN1 protein. Genes & Development, 24 (14). pp. 1559-1569. ISSN 0890-9369
Blanco, Miguel G, Matos, Joao, Rass, Ulrich, Ip, Stephen C Y and West, Stephen C (2010) Functional overlap between the structure-specific nucleases Yen1 and Mus81-Mms4 for DNA-damage repair in S. cerevisiae. DNA repair, 9 (4). pp. 394-402. ISSN 1568-7864
Rass, Ulrich, Ahel, Ivan and West, Stephen C (2008) Molecular mechanism of DNA deadenylation by the neurological disease protein aprataxin. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283 (49). pp. 33994-34001. ISSN 0021-9258
Ip, Stephen C Y, Rass, Ulrich, Blanco, Miguel G, Flynn, Helen R, Skehel, J Mark and West, Stephen C (2008) Identification of Holliday junction resolvases from humans and yeast. Nature, 456 (7220). pp. 357-61. ISSN 0028-0836
Rass, Ulrich, Ahel, Ivan and West, Stephen C (2007) Defective DNA repair and neurodegenerative disease. Cell, 130 (6). pp. 991-1004. ISSN 0092-8674
Rass, Ulrich, Ahel, Ivan and West, Stephen C (2007) Actions of aprataxin in multiple DNA repair pathways. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282 (13). pp. 9469-9474. ISSN 0021-9258
Ahel, Ivan, Rass, Ulrich, El-Khamisy, Sherif F, Katyal, Sachin, Clements, Paula M, McKinnon, Peter J, Caldecott, Keith W and West, Stephen C (2006) The neurodegenerative disease protein aprataxin resolves abortive DNA ligation intermediates. Nature, 443. pp. 713-716. ISSN 0028-0836
Rass, Ulrich and West, Stephen C (2006) Synthetic junctions as tools to identify and characterize Holliday junction resolvases. Methods in Enzymology, 408. pp. 485-501. ISSN 0076-6879
Rass, Ulrich and Kemper, Börries (2002) Crp1p, a new cruciform DNA-binding protein in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Molecular Biology, 323 (4). pp. 685-700. ISSN 0022-2836
Book Section
Murfuni, Ivana and Rass, Ulrich (2016) Targeting homologous recombination repair in cancer. In: Kelley, Mark R and Fishel, Melissa L (eds.) DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy. Academic Press, pp. 225-275. ISBN 9780128035825