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2017 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details MRE11 stability is regulated by CK2-dependent interaction with R2TP complex Authors (8) P von Morgen K Burdova TG FlowerNicola O'ReillySimon Boulton SJ Smerdon L Macurek Z Hořejší Oncogene Published 1 August 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesSteve SmerdonSimon BoultonCell ServicesFull details Human RIF1 and protein phosphatase 1 stimulate DNA replication origin licensing but suppress origin activation Authors (10) Shin-ichiro Hiraga Tony Ly Javier Garzón Zuzana Horejsí Yoshi-nobu Ohkubo Akinori Endo Chikashi ObuseSimon Boulton Angus I Lamond Anne D Donaldson EMBO Reports Published 1 March 2017 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details A polar and nucleotide-dependent mechanism of action for RAD51 paralogs in RAD51 filament remodeling Authors (9) Martin RG Taylor Mário Špírek Chu Jian MaRaffaella CarzanigaTohru TakakiLucy Collinson Eric C Greene Lumir KrejciSimon Boulton Molecular Cell Published 1 December 2016 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonElectron MicroscopyFull details Mechanism and regulation of DNA-protein crosslink repair by the DNA-dependent metalloprotease SPRTN Authors (13) Julian StingeleRoberto Bellelli Ferdinand Alte Graeme Hewitt Grzegorz Sarek Sarah L Maslen[...]Svend Kjaer John A TainerMark Skehel Michael GrollSimon Boulton Molecular Cell Published 17 November 2016 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonProteomicsFull details FANCJ suppresses microsatellite instability and lymphomagenesis independent of the Fanconi anemia pathway Authors (5) Kenichiro MatsuzakiValerie Borel Carrie A Adelman Detlev SchindlerSimon Boulton Genes & Development Published 15 December 2015 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonExperimental HistopathologyBiological Research FacilityFull details Molecular basis of telomere dysfunction in human genetic diseases Authors (4) Grzegorz Sarek Paulina Marzec Pol MargalefSimon Boulton Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Published 4 November 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details REC-1 and HIM-5 distribute meiotic crossovers and function redundantly in meiotic double-strand break formation in Caenorhabditis elegans Authors (9) George Chung Ann M Rose Mark IR Petalcorin Julie S Martin Zebulin Kessler Luis Sanchez-Pulido Chris P Ponting Judith L YanowitzSimon Boulton Genes & Development Published 15 September 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details Rad51 paralogs remodel pre-synaptic Rad51 filaments to stimulate homologous recombination Authors (11) Martin RG Taylor Mário Špírek Kathy R Chaurasiya Jordan D WardRaffaella Carzaniga Xiong Yu Edward H EgelmanLucy Collinson David Rueda Lumir KrejciSimon Boulton Cell Published 16 July 2015 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonElectron MicroscopyFermentationFull details BOD1L is required to suppress deleterious resection of stressed replication forks Authors (14) Martin R Higgs John J Reynolds Alicja Winczura Andrew N BlackfordValerie Borel Edward S Miller[...] Nicholas J Davies Tatjana StankovicSimon Boulton Wojciech Niedzwiedz Grant S Stewart Molecular Cell Published 6 August 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details REV7 counteracts DNA double-strand break resection and affects PARP inhibition Authors (30) Guotai Xu J Ross Chapman Inger Brandsma Jingsong Yuan Martin Mistrik Peter Bouwman[...] Dik C van Gent Jiri Bartek Jos Jonkers Piet Borst Sven Rottenberg Nature Published 28 May 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details Homologous-recombination-deficient tumours are dependent on Polθ-mediated repair Authors (12) Raphael Ceccaldi Jessica C Liu Ravindra Amunugama Ildiko Hajdu Benjamin Primack Mark IR Petalcorin[...] Panagiotis A Konstantinopoulos Stephen J ElledgeSimon Boulton Timur Yusufzai Alan D D'Andrea Nature Published 12 February 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details TRF2 recruits RTEL1 to telomeres in S phase to promote t-loop unwinding Authors (5) Grzegorz Sarek Jean-Baptiste VannierStephanie Panier John H PetriniSimon Boulton Molecular Cell Published 19 February 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details The leukemia-associated Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor LARG is required for efficient replication stress signaling Authors (8) Ryan D Beveridge Christopher J Staples Abhijit A Patil Katie N Myers Sarah MaslenMark SkehelSimon Boulton Spencer J Collis Cell Cycle Published 1 November 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details Ccdc13 is a novel human centriolar satellite protein required for ciliogenesis and genome stability Authors (13) Christopher J Staples Katie N Myers Ryan DD Beveridge Abhijit A Patil Anna E Howard Giancarlo Barone[...]Michael Howell Sarah MaslenMark SkehelSimon Boulton Spencer J Collis Journal of Cell Science Published 1 July 2014 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonSimon BoultonHigh Throughput ScreeningFull details Metabolism of DNA secondary structures at the eukaryotic replication fork Authors (3) Ana María León-Ortiz Jennifer SvendsenSimon Boulton DNA Repair Published 1 July 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details RTEL1: functions of a disease-associated helicase Authors (3) Jean-Baptiste Vannier Grzegorz SarekSimon Boulton Trends in Cell Biology Published 1 July 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details Phosphorylation-dependent PIH1D1 interactions define substrate specificity of the R2TP cochaperone complex Authors (10) Zuzana Hořejší Lasse Stach Thomas G FlowerDhira Joshi Helen FlynnMark SkehelNicola O'ReillyRoksana Ogrodowicz Stephen J SmerdonSimon Boulton Cell Reports Published 18 March 2014 Crick labs/ facilitiesSteve SmerdonSimon BoultonStructural BiologyProteomicsFull details RTEL1 inhibits trinucleotide repeat expansions and fragility Authors (7) Aisling Frizzell Jennifer HG Nguyen Mark IR Petalcorin Katherine D TurnerSimon Boulton Catherine H Freudenreich Robert S Lahue Cell Reports Published 13 March 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details Double-strand break repair: 53BP1 comes into focus Authors (2) Stephanie PanierSimon Boulton Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Published 1 January 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull 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Repair, reuse, recycle: The expanding role of autophagy in genome maintenance Authors (2) G Hewitt VI Korolchuk Trends in Cell Biology Published 1 May 2017 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
MRE11 stability is regulated by CK2-dependent interaction with R2TP complex Authors (8) P von Morgen K Burdova TG FlowerNicola O'ReillySimon Boulton SJ Smerdon L Macurek Z Hořejší Oncogene Published 1 August 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesSteve SmerdonSimon BoultonCell ServicesFull details
Human RIF1 and protein phosphatase 1 stimulate DNA replication origin licensing but suppress origin activation Authors (10) Shin-ichiro Hiraga Tony Ly Javier Garzón Zuzana Horejsí Yoshi-nobu Ohkubo Akinori Endo Chikashi ObuseSimon Boulton Angus I Lamond Anne D Donaldson EMBO Reports Published 1 March 2017 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
A polar and nucleotide-dependent mechanism of action for RAD51 paralogs in RAD51 filament remodeling Authors (9) Martin RG Taylor Mário Špírek Chu Jian MaRaffaella CarzanigaTohru TakakiLucy Collinson Eric C Greene Lumir KrejciSimon Boulton Molecular Cell Published 1 December 2016 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonElectron MicroscopyFull details
Mechanism and regulation of DNA-protein crosslink repair by the DNA-dependent metalloprotease SPRTN Authors (13) Julian StingeleRoberto Bellelli Ferdinand Alte Graeme Hewitt Grzegorz Sarek Sarah L Maslen[...]Svend Kjaer John A TainerMark Skehel Michael GrollSimon Boulton Molecular Cell Published 17 November 2016 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonProteomicsFull details
FANCJ suppresses microsatellite instability and lymphomagenesis independent of the Fanconi anemia pathway Authors (5) Kenichiro MatsuzakiValerie Borel Carrie A Adelman Detlev SchindlerSimon Boulton Genes & Development Published 15 December 2015 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonExperimental HistopathologyBiological Research FacilityFull details
Molecular basis of telomere dysfunction in human genetic diseases Authors (4) Grzegorz Sarek Paulina Marzec Pol MargalefSimon Boulton Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Published 4 November 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
REC-1 and HIM-5 distribute meiotic crossovers and function redundantly in meiotic double-strand break formation in Caenorhabditis elegans Authors (9) George Chung Ann M Rose Mark IR Petalcorin Julie S Martin Zebulin Kessler Luis Sanchez-Pulido Chris P Ponting Judith L YanowitzSimon Boulton Genes & Development Published 15 September 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
Rad51 paralogs remodel pre-synaptic Rad51 filaments to stimulate homologous recombination Authors (11) Martin RG Taylor Mário Špírek Kathy R Chaurasiya Jordan D WardRaffaella Carzaniga Xiong Yu Edward H EgelmanLucy Collinson David Rueda Lumir KrejciSimon Boulton Cell Published 16 July 2015 Crick labs/ facilitiesSimon BoultonElectron MicroscopyFermentationFull details
BOD1L is required to suppress deleterious resection of stressed replication forks Authors (14) Martin R Higgs John J Reynolds Alicja Winczura Andrew N BlackfordValerie Borel Edward S Miller[...] Nicholas J Davies Tatjana StankovicSimon Boulton Wojciech Niedzwiedz Grant S Stewart Molecular Cell Published 6 August 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
REV7 counteracts DNA double-strand break resection and affects PARP inhibition Authors (30) Guotai Xu J Ross Chapman Inger Brandsma Jingsong Yuan Martin Mistrik Peter Bouwman[...] Dik C van Gent Jiri Bartek Jos Jonkers Piet Borst Sven Rottenberg Nature Published 28 May 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
Homologous-recombination-deficient tumours are dependent on Polθ-mediated repair Authors (12) Raphael Ceccaldi Jessica C Liu Ravindra Amunugama Ildiko Hajdu Benjamin Primack Mark IR Petalcorin[...] Panagiotis A Konstantinopoulos Stephen J ElledgeSimon Boulton Timur Yusufzai Alan D D'Andrea Nature Published 12 February 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
TRF2 recruits RTEL1 to telomeres in S phase to promote t-loop unwinding Authors (5) Grzegorz Sarek Jean-Baptiste VannierStephanie Panier John H PetriniSimon Boulton Molecular Cell Published 19 February 2015 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
The leukemia-associated Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor LARG is required for efficient replication stress signaling Authors (8) Ryan D Beveridge Christopher J Staples Abhijit A Patil Katie N Myers Sarah MaslenMark SkehelSimon Boulton Spencer J Collis Cell Cycle Published 1 November 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
Ccdc13 is a novel human centriolar satellite protein required for ciliogenesis and genome stability Authors (13) Christopher J Staples Katie N Myers Ryan DD Beveridge Abhijit A Patil Anna E Howard Giancarlo Barone[...]Michael Howell Sarah MaslenMark SkehelSimon Boulton Spencer J Collis Journal of Cell Science Published 1 July 2014 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonSimon BoultonHigh Throughput ScreeningFull details
Metabolism of DNA secondary structures at the eukaryotic replication fork Authors (3) Ana María León-Ortiz Jennifer SvendsenSimon Boulton DNA Repair Published 1 July 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
RTEL1: functions of a disease-associated helicase Authors (3) Jean-Baptiste Vannier Grzegorz SarekSimon Boulton Trends in Cell Biology Published 1 July 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
Phosphorylation-dependent PIH1D1 interactions define substrate specificity of the R2TP cochaperone complex Authors (10) Zuzana Hořejší Lasse Stach Thomas G FlowerDhira Joshi Helen FlynnMark SkehelNicola O'ReillyRoksana Ogrodowicz Stephen J SmerdonSimon Boulton Cell Reports Published 18 March 2014 Crick labs/ facilitiesSteve SmerdonSimon BoultonStructural BiologyProteomicsFull details
RTEL1 inhibits trinucleotide repeat expansions and fragility Authors (7) Aisling Frizzell Jennifer HG Nguyen Mark IR Petalcorin Katherine D TurnerSimon Boulton Catherine H Freudenreich Robert S Lahue Cell Reports Published 13 March 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details
Double-strand break repair: 53BP1 comes into focus Authors (2) Stephanie PanierSimon Boulton Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Published 1 January 2014 Crick labsSimon BoultonFull details