LIA5 Is Required for Nuclear Reorganization and Programmed DNA Rearrangements Occurring during Tetrahymena Macronuclear Differentiation

An essential role for the DNA breakage-repair protein Ku80 in programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila

(2012) I-Ting Lin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

DNA Elimination in Ciliates: Transposon Domestication and Genome Surveillance

(2011) Douglas L. Chalker et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Double-Strand Breaks in Heterochromatin Move Outside of a Dynamic HP1a Domain to Complete Recombinational Repair

(2011) Irene Chiolo et al.   CELL

Mobilization and recruitment of HP1β: A bimodal response to DNA breakage

(2011) Nabieh Ayoub et al.   CELL CYCLE

Zygotic Expression of the Double-Stranded RNA Binding Motif Protein Drb2p Is Required for DNA Elimination in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila

(2011) Jason A. Motl et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

DNA double-strand breaks in heterochromatin elicit fast repair protein recruitment, histone H2AX phosphorylation and relocation to euchromatin

(2011) Burkhard Jakob et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Tetrahymena thermophila, a unicellular eukaryote with separate germline and somatic genomes

(2011) Eduardo Orias et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Highly Precise and Developmentally Programmed Genome Assembly in Paramecium Requires Ligase IV–Dependent End Joining

(2011) Aurélie Kapusta et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Conjugation-Specific Die5 Protein Is Required for Development of the Somatic Nucleus in both Paramecium and Tetrahymena

(2010) Atsushi Matsuda et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

A Domesticated piggyBac Transposase Plays Key Roles in Heterochromatin Dynamics and DNA Cleavage during Programmed DNA Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila

(2010) Chao-Yin Cheng et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Molecular domestication of transposable elements: From detrimental parasites to useful host genes

(2009) L. Sinzelle et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

PiggyMac, a domesticated piggyBac transposase involved in programmed genome rearrangements in the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

(2009) C. Baudry et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Revisiting the role of heterochromatin protein 1 in DNA repair: Figure 1.

(2009) Alexander R. Ball et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The Emerging Role of HP1 in the DNA Damage Response

(2009) C. Dinant et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

The emerging role of nuclear architecture in DNA repair and genome maintenance

(2009) Tom Misteli et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

A Functional Role for Transposases in a Large Eukaryotic Genome

(2009) M. Nowacki et al.   SCIENCE

Transposons that clean up after themselves

(2009) Douglas L Chalker   GENOME BIOLOGY

Dynamic nuclear reorganization during genome remodeling of Tetrahymena

(2008) Douglas L. Chalker   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

IS4 family goes genomic

(2008) Daniel De Palmenaer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Quality control of DNA break metabolism: in the ‘end’, it's a good thing

(2008) Roland Kanaar et al.   EMBO JOURNAL