Background

1. Lustig, A.J. and Petes, T.D. 1986. Identification of yeast mutants with altered telomere structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 83: 1398-1402.

2. Lustig, A.J., Kurtz, S., and Shore, D. 1990. Involvement of the silencer and UAS binding protein RAP1 in regulation of telomere length. Science 250: 549-553.

3. Lustig, A.J. 1992. Hoogsteen G-G base pairing is dispensable for telomere healing in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res. 20: 3021-3028.

4. Kyrion, G., Boakye, K.A., and Lustig, A.J. 1992. C-terminal truncation of RAP1 results in the deregulation of telomere size, stability and function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell. Biol. 12: 5159-5173.

5. Kyrion, G., Liu, K., Liu, C., and Lustig, A.J. 1993. RAP1 and telomere structure regulate telomere position effects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genes Dev. 7: 1146-1159.

6. Lustig, A.J. and Petes, T.D. 1993. The genetic control of simple sequence stability in yeast. Genome Analysis 7: 79-106. [invited review]

7. Liu, C., Mao, X., and Lustig, A.J. 1994. Mutational analysis defines a C-terminal tail domain of RAP1 essential for telomeric silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 118: 1025-1040.

8. Cockell, M. Palladino, F., Laroche, T., Kyrion, G., Liu, C., Lustig, A. J, and Gasser, S. 1995. The Carboxy-termini of SIR4 and RAP1 affect SIR3 localization: Evidence for a multicomponent complex required for telomeric silencing. J. Cell. Biol. 129: 909-924.

9. Liu, C. and Lustig, A. J. 1996. Genetic analysis of Rap1p/Sir3p interactions in telomeric and HML silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 143: 81-93.

10. Lustig, A., Liu, C., Zhang, C., and Hanish, J. P. 1996. Tethered Sir3p nucleates silencing at telomeres and internal loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell. Biol. 16: 2483-2495.

11. Li, B. and Lustig, A. J. 1996. A novel mechanism for telomere size control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genes Dev. 10: 1310-1326.

12. Lustig, A. 1996. Methods in the analysis of telomere function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. in Microbial Genome Methods (K. Adolph, ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 37-60 [invited review]. Granted permission for use from www.crcpress.com.

13. Lustig, A. 1997. The identification of telomerase subunits: catalyzing telomere research. Trends Cell. Biol. 7: 299-302.

14. Lustig, A. 1998. DNA Dynamics: Different Means to a Common End? Current Biology 8: R161-R164 (invited dispatch).

15. Lustig, A. 1998. Mechanisms of silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr. Opin. Genet. and Dev. 8: 233-239 (invited review).

16. Polotnianka, R.M., Liu, J. and Lustig, A.J.. 1998. The yeast Ku heterodimer is essential for protection against nucleolytic and recombinational activities. Current Biology, 8: 831-834.

17. Park, Y., Hanish, J.. and Lustig, A.J. 1998. Sir3p domains involved in the nucleation of telomeric silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 150:977-986.

18. Lustig, A. J. 1999. Crisis intervention: The role of telomerase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96: 3339-3341.

19. Lustig, A. J. 1999. The kudos of non-homologous end-joining (invited review). Nat. Genet., 23: 130-131.

20. Park, Y . and Lustig, A.J. 2000. Telomere structure regulates the heritability of repressed subtelomeric chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 154:587-598.

21. Lustig, A.J. 2001. Cdc13 subcomplexes regulate multiple telomere functions. Nat. Struct. Biol.
8: 297-299 (invited review).

22. Bucholc, M., Park, Y., and Lustig, A. J. 2001. Intrachromatid excision of telomeric DNA as a mechanism for telomere size control in S. cerevisiae. Mol. Cell. Biol. 21:6559-6573.

23. Wyatt, H., Liaw, H.,Green, G. R., and Lustig, A.J. 2003 Multiple role for Saccharomyces cerevisiae histone H2A in telomere position effect, spt suppression and DSB Repair. Genetics 164: 47-64.

24. Williams, B. and Lustig, A. J. 2003. The paradoxical relationship between NHEJ and telomere fusion. Mol. Cell 11: 1125-1126.

25. Lustig, A. J. 2003. Perspective: Clues to catastrophic telomere loss in mammals from yeast telomere rapid deletion. Nature Reviews Genetics 4: 916-923.

26. Lustig, A.J. 2004. Telomerase RNA: A flexible RNA scaffold for telomerase biosynthesis. Current Biology 14: R565-567.

27. Joseph, I., Jia, D. and Lustig, A. J. 2005. Ndj1p-dependent epigenetic resetting of telomere size in yeast meiosis. Current Biology 15(3): 231-237.

28. Williams, B., Bhattacharyya, M.K., and Lustig, A.J. 2005. Mre11p nuclease activity is dispensable for telomeric rapid deletion. DNA Repair 4: 994-1005.