Break-induced replication and recombinational telomere elongation in yeast

MJ McEachern, JE Haber - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2006 - annualreviews.org
When a telomere becomes unprotected or if only one end of a chromosomal double-strand
break succeeds in recombining with a template sequence, DNA can be repaired by a …

Linear mitochondrial genomes: 30 years down the line

J Nosek, H Fukuhara, Y Suyama, L Kováč - Trends in Genetics, 1998 - cell.com
At variance with the earlier belief that mitochondrial genomes are represented by circular
DNA molecules, a large number of organisms have been found to carry linear mitochondrial …

Telomeric circles: universal players in telomere maintenance?

L Tomaska, J Nosek, J Kramara… - Nature structural & …, 2009 - nature.com
To maintain linear DNA genomes, organisms have evolved numerous means of solving
problems associated with DNA ends (telomeres), including telomere-associated …

Mitochondrial genome diversity: evolution of the molecular architecture and replication strategy

J Nosek, Ľ Tomáška - Current genetics, 2003 - Springer
Mitochondrial genomes in organisms from diverse phylogenetic groups vary in both size and
molecular form. Although the types of mitochondrial genome appear very dissimilar, several …

[HTML][HTML] Twenty years of t-loops: a case study for the importance of collaboration in molecular biology

Ľ Tomáška, AJ Cesare, TM AlTurki, JD Griffith - DNA repair, 2020 - Elsevier
Collaborative studies open doors to breakthroughs otherwise unattainable by any one
laboratory alone. Here we describe the initial collaboration between the Griffith and de …

Biology and genetics of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis

J Nosek, Z Holesova, P Kosa, A Gacser, L Tomaska - Current genetics, 2009 - Springer
The yeast Candida parapsilosis is an opportunistic human pathogen frequently associated
with nosocomial infections in neonates and patients with diminished immunity. A growing …

Massive programmed translational jumping in mitochondria

BF Lang, M Jakubkova… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Programmed translational bypassing is a process whereby ribosomes “ignore” a substantial
interval of mRNA sequence. Although discovered 25 y ago, the only experimentally …

Amplification of telomeric arrays via rolling-circle mechanism

J Nosek, A Rycovska, AM Makhov, JD Griffith… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
Alternative (telomerase-independent) lengthening of telomeres mediated through
homologous recombination is often accompanied by a generation of extrachromosomal …

Complete DNA sequences of the mitochondrial genomes of the pathogenic yeasts Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis: insight into the evolution of …

P Kosa, M Valach, L Tomaska, KH Wolfe… - Nucleic acids …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We determined complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of the two yeast species, Candida
orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis, and compared them with the linear mitochondrial …

Split Photosystem Protein, Linear-Mapping Topology, and Growth of Structural Complexity in the Plastid Genome of Chromera velia

J Janouškovec, R Sobotka, DH Lai… - Molecular biology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The canonical photosynthetic plastid genomes consist of a single circular-mapping
chromosome that encodes a highly conserved protein core, involved in photosynthesis and …