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Atkinson, R.; Georgiou, M.; Yang, C.; Szymanska, K.; Lahat, A.; Vasconcelos, E.J.R.; Ji, Y.; Moya Molina, M.; Collin, J.; Queen, R. et al.; Dorgau, B.; Watson, A.; Kurzawa-Akanbi, M.; Laws, R.; Saxena, A.; Shyan Beh, C.; Siachisumo, C.; Goertler, F.; Karwatka, M.; Davey, T.; Inglehearn, C.F.; McKibbin, M.; Lührmann, R.; Steel, D.H.; Elliott, D.J.; Armstrong, L.; Urlaub, H.; Ali, R.R.; Grellscheid, S.-N.; Johnson, C.A.; Mozaffari-Jovin, S.; Lako, M.: PRPF8-mediated dysregulation of hBrr2 helicase disrupts human spliceosome kinetics and 5´-splice-site selection causing tissue-specific defects. Nature Communications 15, 3138 (2024)

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Zhang, Z.; Kumar, V.; Dybkov, O.; Will, C. L.; Urlaub, H.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Cryo-EM analyses of dimerized spliceosomes provide new insights into the functions of B complex proteins. The EMBO Journal 43, pp. 1065 - 1088 (2024)

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Kafian, H.; Mozaffari-Jovin, S.; Bagheri, M.; Shaegh, S. A. M.: Light-sheet fluorescent microscopy: fundamentals, developments and applications. Physica Scripta 98 (8), 082001 (2023)

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Thompson, H.L.; Shen, W.; Matus, R.; Kakkar, M.; Jones, C.; Dolan, D.; Grellscheid, S.; Yang, X.; Zhang, N.; Mozaffari-Jovin, S. et al.; Chen, C.; Zhang, X.; Topping, J.F.; Lindsey, K.: MERISTEM-DEFECTIVE regulates the balance between stemness and differentiation in the root meristem through RNA splicing control. Development 150 (7), dev201476 (2023)

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Dybkov, O.; Preußner, M.; El Ayoubi, L.; Feng, V.-Y.; Harnisch, C.; Merz, K.; Leupold, P.; Yudichev, P.; Agafonov, D. E.; Will, C. L. et al.; Girard, C.; Dienemann, C.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Heyd, F.; Lührmann, R.: Regulation of 3′ splice site selection after step 1 of splicing by spliceosomal C* proteins. Science Advances 9 (9), eadf178 (2023)

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Georgiou, M.; Atkinson, R.; Mozaffari-Jovin, S.; Lako, M.: Progressive accumulation of cytoplasmic aggregates in PRPF31 retinal pigment epithelium cells interferes with cell survival. Clinical and Translational Discovery 2 (4), e89 (2022)

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Georgiou, M.; Yang, C.; Atkinson, R.; Pan, K.‐.; Buskin, A.; Molina, M. M.; Collin, J.; Al‐Aama, J.; Goertler, F.; Ludwig, S. E. J. et al.; Davey, T.; Lührmann, R.; Nagaraja‐Grellscheid, S.; Johnson, C. A.; Ali, R.; Armstrong, L.; Korolchuk, V.; Urlaub, H.; Mozaffari‐Jovin, S.; Lako, M.: Activation of autophagy reverses progressive and deleterious protein aggregation in PRPF31 patient‐induced pluripotent stem cell‐derived retinal pigment epithelium cells. Clinical and Translational Medicine 12 (3), e759 (2022)

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Fianu, I.; Chen, Y.; Dienemann, C.; Dybkov, O.; Linden, A.; Urlaub, H.; Cramer, P.: Structural basis of Integrator-mediated transcription regulation. Science 374 (6569), pp. 883 - 887 (2021)

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Gomkale, R.; Linden, A.; Neumann, P.; Schendzielorz, A. B.; Stoldt, S.; Dybkov, O.; Kilisch, M.; Schulz, C.; Cruz-Zaragoza, L. D.; Schwappach, B. et al.; Ficner, R.; Jakobs, S.; Urlaub, H.; Rehling, P.: Mapping protein interactions in the active TOM-TIM23 supercomplex. Nature Communications 12, 5715 (2021)

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Zhang, Z.; Rigo, N.; Dybkov, O.; Fourmann, J. B.; Will, C. L.; Kumar, V.; Urlaub, H.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Structural insights into how Prp5 proofreads the pre-mRNA branch site. Nature 596 (7871), pp. 296 - 300 (2021)

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Yildirim, A.; Mozaffari-Jovin, S.; Wallisch, A. K.; Schäfer, J.; Ludwig, S. E. J.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R.; Wolfrum, U.: SANS (USH1G) regulates pre-mRNA splicing by mediating the intra-nuclear transfer of tri-snRNP complexes. Nucleic Acids Research 49 (10), pp. 5845 - 5866 (2021)

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Zhang, S.; Aibara, S.; Vos, S. M.; Agafonov, D.; Lührmann, R.; Cramer, P.: Structure of a transcribing RNA polymerase II–U1 snRNP complex. Science 371 (6526), pp. 305 - 309 (2021)

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Townsend, C.; Leelaram, M. N.; Agafonov, D. E.; Dybkov, O.; Will, C. L.; Bertram, K.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Mechanism of protein-guided folding of the active site U2/U6 RNA during spliceosome activation. Science 370 (6523), eabc3753 (2020)

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Netz, E.; Dijkstra, T. M. H.; Sachsenberg, T.; Zimmermann, L.; Walzer, M.; Monecke, T.; Ficner, R.; Dybkov, O.; Urlaub, H.; Kohlbacher, O.: OpenPepXL: An open-source tool for sensitive identification of cross-linked peptides in XL-MS. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 19 (12), pp. 2157 - 2167 (2020)

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Liess, A. K. L.; Kucerova, A.; Schweimer, K.; Schlesinger, D.; Dybkov, O.; Urlaub, H.; Mansfeld, J.; Lorenz, S.: Dimerization regulates the human APC/C-associated ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBE2S. Science Signaling 13 (654), eaba8208 (2020)

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Bertram, K.; El Ayoubi, L.; Dybkov, O.; Agafonov, D.; Will, C. L.; Hartmuth, K.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Structural insights into the roles of metazoan-specific splicing factors in the human step 1 spliceosome. Molecular Cell 80 (1), pp. 127 - 139.e6 (2020)

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Zhang, Z.; Will, C. L.; Bertram, K.; Dybkov, O.; Hartmuth, K.; Agafonov, D. E.; Hofele, R. V.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Lührmann, R. et al.; Stark, H.: Molecular architecture of the human 17S U2 snRNP. Nature 583 (7815), pp. 310 - 313 (2020)

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Cossa, G.; Roeschert, I.; Prinz, F.; Baluapuri, A.; Silveira Vidal, R.; Schülein-Völk, C.; Chang, Y. C.; Ade, C. P.; Mastrobuoni, G.; Girard, C. et al.; Wortmann, L.; Walz, S.; Lührmann, R.; Kempa, S.; Kuster, B.; Wolf, E.; Mumberg, D.; Eilers, M.; Eilers, M.: Localized inhibition of protein phosphatase 1 by NUAK1 promotes spliceosome activity and reveals a MYC-sensitive feedback control of transcription. Molecular Cell 77 (6), pp. 1322 - 1339.e11 (2020)

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Lührmann, R.: Kiyoshi Nagai (1949-2019). RNA 26 (2), pp. vii - viii (2020)

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Kastner, B.; Will, C. L.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Structural insights into nuclear pre-mRNA splicing in higher eukaryotes. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 11 (11), a032417 (2019)

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Bryen, S. J.; Joshi, H.; Evesson, F. J.; Girard, C.; Ghaoui, R.; Waddell, L. B.; Testa, A. C.; Cummings, B.; Arbuckle, S.; Graf, N. et al.; Webster, R.; MacArthur, D. G.; Laing, N. G.; MR, D.; Lührmann, R.; Cooper, S. T.: Pathogenic abnormal splicing due to intronic deletions that induce biophysical space constraint for spliceosome assembly. American Journal of Human Genetics 105 (3), pp. 573 - 587 (2019)

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Keiper, S. M.; Papasaikas, P.; Will, C. L.; Valcárcel, J.; Girard, C.; Lührmann, R.: Smu1 and RED are required for activation of spliceosomal B complexes assembled on short introns. Nature Communications 10 (1), 3639 (2019)

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Liess, A. K. L.; Kucerova, A.; Schweimer, K.; Yu, L.; Roumeliotis, T. I.; Diebold, M.; Dybkov, O.; Sotriffer, C.; Urlaub, H.; Choudhary, J. S. et al.; Mansfeld, J.; Lorenz, S.: Autoinhibition mechanism of the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBE2S by autoubiquitination. Structure 27 (8), pp. 1195 - 1210 (2019)

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Bao, P.; Boon, K. L.; Will, C. L.; Hartmuth, K.; Lührmann, R.: Multiple RNA-RNA tertiary interactions are dispensable for formation of a functional U2/U6 RNA catalytic core in the spliceosome. Nucleic Acids Research 46 (22), pp. 12126 - 12138 (2018)

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Buskin, A.; Zhu, L.; Chichagova, V.; Basu, B.; Mozafarri Jovin, S.; Dolan, D.; Droop, A.; Collin, J.; Bronstein, R.; Mehrotra, S. et al.; Farkas, M.; Hilgen, G.; White, K.; Pan, K. T.; Treumann, A.; Hallam, D.; Bialas, K.; Chung, G.; Mellough, C.; Ding, Y.; Krasnogor, N.; Przyborski, S.; Zwolinski, S.; Al-Aama, J.; Alharthi, S.; Xu, Y.; Wheway, G.; Szymanska, K.; McKibbin, M.; Inglehearn, C. F.; Elliott, D. J.; Lindsay, S.; Ali, R. R.; Steel, D. H.; Armstrong, L.; Sernagor, E.; Urlaub, H.; Pierce, E.; Lührmann, R.; Grellscheid, S. N.; Johnson, C. A.; Lako, M.: Disrupted alternative splicing for genes implicated in splicing and ciliogenesis causes PRPF31 retinitis pigmentosa. Nature Communications 9, 4234 (2018)

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Roithová, A.; Klimešová, K.; Pánek, J.; Will, C. L.; Lührmann, R.; Stanek, D.; Girard, C.: The Sm-core mediates the retention of partially-assembled spliceosomal snRNPs in Cajal bodies until their full maturation. Nucleic Acids Research 46 (7), pp. 3774 - 3790 (2018)

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Cretu, C.; Agrawal, A. A.; Cook, A.; Will, C. L.; Fekkes, P.; Smith, P. G.,.; Lührmann, R.; Larsen, N.; Buonamici, S.; Pena, V.: Structural basis of splicing modulation by antitumor macrolide compounds. Molecular Cell 70 (2), pp. 265 - 273 (2018)

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Rocha de Moura, T.; Mozaffari-Jovin, S.; Szabo, C. Z. K.; Schmitzova, J.; Dybkov, O.; Cretu, C.; Kachala, M.; Svergun, D.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R. et al.; Pena, V.: Prp19/Pso4 is an autoinhibited ubiquitin ligase activated by stepwise assembly of three splicing factors. Molecular Cell 69 (6), pp. 979 - 992 (2018)

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Haselbach, D.; Komarov, I.; Agafonov, D. E.; Hartmuth, K.; Graf, B.; Dybkov, O.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Lührmann, R.; Stark, H.: Structure and conformational dynamics of the human spliceosomal B^act complex. Cell 172 (3), pp. 454 - 464, e1-e5 (2018)

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Bao, P.; Höbartner, C.; Hartmuth, K.; Lührmann, R.: Yeast Prp2 liberates the 5' splice site and the branch site adenosine for catalysis of pre-mRNA splicing. RNA 23 (12), pp. 1770 - 1779 (2017)

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Bao, P.; Will, C. L.; Urlaub, H.; Boon, K. L.; Lührmann, R.: The RES complex is required for efficient transformation of the precatalytic B spliceosome into an activated Bact complex. Genes and Development 31 (23-24), pp. 2416 - 2429 (2017)

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Bertram, K.; Agafonov, D. E.; Dybkov, O.; Haselbach, D.; Leelaram, M. N.; Will, C. L.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Lührmann, R.; Stark, H.: Cryo-EM structure of a pre-catalytic human spliceosome primed for activation. Cell 170 (4), pp. 701 - 713, e1 - e4 (2017)

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Said, N.; Krupp, F.; Anedchenko, E.; Santos, K. F.; Dybkov, O.; Huang, Y. H.; Lee, C. T.; Loll, B.; Behrmann, E.; Bürger, J. et al.; Mielke, T.; Loerke, J.; Urlaub, H.; Spahn, C. M. T.; Weber, G.; Wahl, M. C.: Structural basis for λN-dependent processive transcription antitermination. Nature Microbiology 2 (7), 17062 (2017)

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Fourmann, J. B.; Tauchert, M. J.; Ficner, R.; Fabrizio, P.; Lührmann, R.: Regulation of Prp43-mediated disassembly of spliceosomes by its cofactors Ntr1 and Ntr2. Nucleic Acids Research 45 (7), pp. 4068 - 4080 (2017)

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Sidarovich, A.; Will, C. L.; Anokhina, M. M.; Ceballos, J.; Sievers, S.; Agafonov, D. E.; Samatov, T.; Bao, P.; Kastner, B.; Urlaub, H. et al.; Waldmann, H.; Lührmann, R.: Identification of a small molecule inhibitor that stalls splicing at an early step of spliceosome activation. eLife 6, e23533 (2017)

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Bertram, K.; Agafonov, D. E.; Liu, W.; Dybkov, O.; Will, C. L.; Hartmuth, K.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Cryo-EM structure of a human spliceosome activated for step 2 of splicing. Nature 542 (7641), pp. 318 - 323 (2017)

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Tauchert, M. J.; Fourmann, J. B.; Lührmann, R.; Ficner, R.: Structural insights into the mechanism of the DEAH-box RNA helicase Prp43. eLife 6, e21510 (2017)

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Pozzi, B.; Bragado, L.; Will, C. L.; Mammi, P.; Risso, G.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R.; Srebrow, A.: SUMO conjugation to spliceosomal proteins is required for efficient pre-mRNA splicing. Nucleic Acids Research 45 (11), pp. 6729 - 6745 (2017)

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Cretu, C.; Schmitzova, J.; Ponce-Salvatierra, A.; Dybkov, O.; De Laurentiis, E.; Sharma, K.; Will, C. L.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R.; Pena, V.: Molecular architecture of SF3b and structural consequences of its cancer-related mutations. Molecular Cell 64 (2), pp. 307 - 319 (2016)

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Rauhut, R.; Fabrizio, P.; Dybkov, O.; Hartmuth, K.; Pena, V.; Chari, A.; Kumar, V.; Lee, C. T.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B. et al.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Molecular architecture of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae activated spliceosome. Science 353 (6306), pp. 1399 - 1405 (2016)

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Agafonov, D. E.; van Santen, M.; Kastner, B.; Dube, P.; Will, C. L.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R.: ATPγS stalls splicing after B complex formation but prior to spliceosome activation. RNA 22 (9), pp. 1329 - 1337 (2016)

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Sun, C.; Rigo, N.; Fabrizio, P.; Kastner, B.; Lührmann, R.: A protein map of the yeast activated spliceosome as obtained by electron microscopy. RNA 22 (9), pp. 1427 - 1440 (2016)

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Singh, J.; Sikand, K.; Conrad, H.; Will, C. L.; Komar, A. A.; Shukla, G. C.: U6atac snRNA stem-loop interacts with U12 p65 RNA binding protein and is functionally interchangeable with the U12 apical stem-loop III. Scientific Reports 6, 31393 (2016)

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Boesler, C.; Rigo, N.; Anokhina, M. M.; Tauchert, M. J.; Agafonov, D. E.; Kastner, B.; Urlaub, H.; Ficner, R.; Will, C. L.; Lührmann, R.: A spliceosome intermediate with loosely associated tri-snRNP accumulates in the absence of Prp28 ATPase activity. Nature Communications 7, 11997 (2016)

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Fourmann, J. B.; Dybkov, O.; Agafonov, D. E.; Tauchert, M. J.; Urlaub, H.; Ficner, R.; Fabrizio, P.; Lührmann, R.: The target of the DEAH-box NTP triphosphatase Prp43 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae spliceosomes is the U2 snRNP-intron interaction. eLife 5, e15564 (2016)

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Agafonov, D. E.; Kastner, B.; Dybkov, O.; Hofele, R. V.; Liu, W.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R.; Stark, H.: Molecular architecture of the human U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP. Science 351 (6280), pp. 1416 - 1420 (2016)

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Heininger, A. U.; Hackert, P.; Andreou, A. Z.; Boon, K. L.; Memet, I.; Prior, M.; Clancy, A.; Schmidt, B.; Urlaub, H.; Schleiff, E. et al.; Sloan, K. E.; Deckers, M.; Lührmann, R.; Enderlein, J.; Klostermeier, D.; Rehling, P.; Bohnsack, M. T.: Protein cofactor competition regulates the action of a multifunctional RNA helicase in different pathways. RNA Biology 13 (3), pp. 320 - 330 (2016)

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Schütze, T.; Ulrich, A. K. C.; Apelt, L.; Will, C. L.; Bartlick, N.; Seeger, M.; Weber, G.; Lührmann, R.; Stelzl, U.; Wahl, M. C.: Multiple protein-protein interactions converging on the Prp38 protein during activation of the human spliceosome. RNA 22 (2), pp. 265 - 277 (2016)

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Tauchert, M. J.; Fourmann, J. B.; Christian, H.; Lührmann, R.; Ficner, R.: Structural and functional analysis of the RNA helicase Prp43 from the thermophilic eukaryote Chaetomium thermophilum. Acta Crystallographica Section F 72 (2), pp. 112 - 120 (2016)

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