Selected Publications
2007

Brissett NC, Pitcher RS, Juarez R, Picher AJ, Green AJ, Dafforn TR, Fox GC, Blanco L* and Doherty AJ, 2007. Structure of a NHEJ polymerase-mediated DNA synaptic complex. Science 318:456-459. (IF 26.3)


2008

Aguilera A, Gomez-Gonzalez B, 2008. Genome instability: a mechanistic view of its causes and consequences. Nat. Rev. Genet. 9(3):204-217. (IF 24.1)

Baños B, Lázaro J M,Villar L, Salas M, de Vega M, 2008. Characterization of a Bacillus subtilis 64-kDa DNA polymerase X potentially involved in DNA repair. J. Mol. Biol. 384: 1019-1028. (IF 4.146)

Baños B, Lázaro J M,Villar L, Salas M, de Vega M, 2008. Editing of misaligned 3'-termini by an intrinsic 3'-5' exonuclease activity residing in the PHP domain of a family X DNA polymerase. Nucl. Acids Res. 36:5736-5749. (IF 6.8)

Borlado LR, Mendez J. 2008. CDC6: from DNA replication to cell cycle checkpoints and oncogenesis. Carcinogenesis 29:237-243. (IF 4.9)

Colomina N, Ferrezuelo F, Wang H, Aldea M, Gari E. 2008. Whi3, a developmental regulator of budding yeast, binds a large set of mRNAs functionally related to the endoplasmic reticulum. J Biol Chem 283: 28670-28679. (IF 5.5)

Davis, L., Rozalén, A.E., Moreno, S. , Smith, G.R. and Martín-Castellanos, C. 2008. Rec25 and Rec27, novel linear-element components, link cohesin to meiotic DNA breakage and recombination. Current Biol. 18:849-854. (IF 10.7)

García-Higuera, I., Manchado, E., Dubus, P., Cañamero, M., Méndez, J., Moreno, S. , and Malumbres, M. 2008. Genomic stability and tumour suppression by the APC/C cofactor Cdh1. Nature Cell Biol 10:802-811. (IF 17.7)

Huertas P, Cortes-Ledesma F, Sartori AA, Aguilera A, Jackson SP, 2008. CDK targets Sae2 to control DNA-end resection and homologous recombination. Nature 455:689-692 (IF 31.4)

Ibarra, A., Schwob, E., and Méndez, J. 2008. Excess MCM proteins protect human cells from replicative stress by licensing backup origins of replication. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105: 8956-8961. [*]

Losada A. 2008. The regulation of sister chromatid cohesion. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1786:41-48

Pérez-Hidalgo, L., Rozalén, A.E., Martín-Castellanos, C and Moreno, S. 2008. Slk1 is a meiosis-specific Sid2-related kinase that coordinates meiotic nuclear division with growth of the forespore membrane. J. Cell Science 121:1383-1392. (IF 6.2)

Rivera, T., and Losada, A. 2009. Shugoshin regulates cohesion by driving relocalization of PP2A in Xenopus extracts. Chromosoma 118:223-33. (IF 5.1)

Salas M, Blanco L, Lazaro JM, de Veja M. 2008. The bacteriophage phi29 DNA polymerase. IUBMB Life 60:82-85. (IF 2.3)

Serrano-Heras, G. Bravo, A. and Salas M. 2008. Phage phi29 protein p56 prevents viral DNA replication impairment caused by uracil excision activity of uracil-DNA glycosylase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105:19044-19049. [*]

Vázquez, M. V., Rojas, V. and Tercero, J. A. 2008. Multiple pathways cooperate to facilitate DNA replication fork progression through alkylated DNA. DNA Repair 7:1693-1704. (IF 5.0)


2009

Andrade P, Martín MJ, Juárez R, López de Saro F, Blanco L. 2009. Limited terminal transferase in human DNA polymerase mu defines the required balance between accuracy and efficiency in NHEJ. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106:16203-16208.

Cambray S, Pedraza N, Rafel M, Garí E, Aldea M, Gallego C. 2009. Protein kinase KIS localizes to RNA granules and enhances local translation. Mol. Cell. Biol. 29:726-735 (IF 5.9)

Gomez-Gonzalez B, Aguilera A. 2009. R-loops do not accumulate in transcription-defective hpr1-101 mutants: implications for the functional role of THO/TREX. Nucl. Acids Res. 37(13): 4315-4321 (IF 6.8)

Gomez-Gonzalez B, Felipe-Abrio I, Aguilera A. 2009. The S-phase checkpoint is required to respond to R-loops accumulated in THO mutants. Mol. Cell. Biol 29(19):5203-5213 (IF 5.9)

Gozalbo-López B, Andrade P, Terrados G, de Andrés B, Serrano N, Cortegano I, Palacios B, Bernad A, Blanco L, Marcos MA, Gaspar ML. 2009. A role for DNA polymerase mu in the emerging DJH rearrangements of the postgastrulation mouse embryo. Mol. Cell Biol. 29:1266-1275. (IF 5.9)

Ibarra B, Chemla YR, Plyasunov S, Smith SB, Lazaro JM, Salas M, Bustamante C. 2009. Proofreading dynamics of a processive DNA polymerase. EMBO J. 28:2794-2802 (IF 8.2)

Mas G, de Nadal E, Dechant R, de la Concepción ML, Logie C, Jimeno-González S, Chávez S, Ammerer G, Posas F. 2009. Recruitment of a chromatin remodelling complex by the Hog1 MAP kinase to stress genes. EMBO J. 28:326-36. (IF 8.2)

Muños-Espin D, Daniel R, Hawai Y, Carballido-Lopz R, Castilla-Llorente V, Errington J, Meijer W, Salas M. 2009. The actin-like MreB cytoskeleton organizes viral DNA replication in bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

Pardo B, Gomez-Gonzalez B, Aguilera A. 2009. DNA repair in mammalian cells: DNA double-strand break repair: how to fix a broken relationship. Cell Mol. Life Sci. 66:1039-1056 (5.5)

Ruiz J F, Gomez-Gonzalez B, Aguilera A. 2009. Chromosomal translocations caused by either pol32-dependent or pol32-independent triparental break-induced replication. Mol. Cell. Biol 29(20):5441-5454 (5.9)

Serrano A, Rodríguez-Corsino M, Losada A. 2009. Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) proteins do not drive pericentromeric cohesin enrichment in human cells. PLoS One 4: e5118

Terrados G, Capp J-P, Canitrot Y, García-Díaz M, Bebenek K, Kirchhoff T, Villanueva A, Boudsoq F, Bergoglio V, Cazaux C, Kunkel TA, Hoffmann JS, Blanco L. 2009. Characterization of a natural mutator variant of human DNA polymerase lambda which promotes chromosomal instability by compromising NHEJ. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7290. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007290

Yaakov G, Duch A, Garcia-Rubio M, Clotet J, Jiménez J, Aguilera A, Posas F. 2009. The stress-activated protein kinase Hog1 mediates S phase delay in response to osmostress. Mol. Biol. Cell. 20:3572-3582 (IF 5.5)