April 2012 | Four collaborative research papers published in Nature, Cell, Science and Nature Genetics!
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Þ Cristina Gontan, Eskeatnaf Mulugeta Achame, Jeroen Demmers#, Tahsin Stefan Barakat, Eveline Rentmeester, Wilfred van IJcken, J. Anton Grootegoed and Joost Gribnau (2012) RNF12 initiates X chromosome inactivation by targeting REX1 for degradation. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature11070.
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Þ Schwertman, P., Lagarou, A., Dekkers, D. H. W.#, Raams, A., van der Hoek, A. C., Laffeber, C., Hoeijmakers, J. H. J., Demmers, J. A. A.#, Fousteri, M., Vermeulen, W. & Marteijn, J. A. (2012) UV-sensitive syndrome protein UVSSA recruits USP7 to regulate transcription-coupled repair. Nature Genetics, doi:10.1038/ng.2230.
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Þ Adone Mohd-Sarip, Anna Lagarou, Ulku Aslan, Jan van der Knaap, Cecile Doyen, Karel Bezstarosti#, Yasmin Yassin, Hugh W Brock, Jeroen AA Demmers# & C. Peter Verrijzer (2012) Transcription-independent function of the Polycomb group protein PSC in cell cycle control. Science,doi:10.1126/science.1215927.
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Þ Tavares L, Dimitrova E, Oxley D, Webster J, Poot R, Demmers J#, Bezstarosti K#, Taylor S, Ura H, Koide H, Wutz A, Vidal M, Elderkin S, Brockdorff N (2012) RYBP-PRC1 complexes mediate H2A ubiquitylation at polycomb target sites independently of PRC2 and H3K27me3. Cell 148(4):664-78.