Publications of Dmitry E. Agafonov

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Schneider, C.; Agafonov, D. E.; Schmitzova, J.; Hartmuth, K.; Fabrizio, P.; Lührmann, R.: Dynamic contacts of U2, RES, Cwc25, Prp8 and Prp45 proteins with the Pre-mRNA branch-site and 3' splice site during catalytic activation and step 1 catalysis in yeast spliceosomes. PLoS Genetics 11 (9), e1005539 (2015)

Boesler, C.; Rigo, N.; Agafonov, D. E.; Kastner, B.; Urlaub, H.; Will, C. L.; Lührmann, R.: Stable tri-snRNP integration is accompanied by a major structural rearrangement of the spliceosome that is dependent on Prp8 interaction with the 5‘ splice site. RNA 21 (11), pp. 1993 - 2005 (2015)

Alló, M.; Agirre, E.; Bessonov, S.; Bertucci, P.; Acuña, L. G.; Buggiano, V.; Bellora, N.; Singh, B.; Petrilloa, E.; Blaustein, M. et al.; Miñana, B.; Dujardin, G.; Pozzi, B.; Pelisch, F.; Bechara, E.; Agafonov, D. E.; Srebrow, A.; Lührmann, R.; Valcárcel, J.; Eyras, E.; Kornblihtt, A. R.: Argonaute-1 binds transcriptional enhancers and controls constitutive and alternative splicing in human cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (44), pp. 15622 - 15629 (2014)

Agafonov, D. E.; Deckert, J.; Wolf, E.; Odenwälder, P.; Bessonov, S.; Will, C. L.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R.: Semiquantitative proteomic analysis of the human spliceosome via a novel two-dimensional gel electrophoresis method. Molecular and Cellular Biology 31 (13), pp. 2667 - 2682 (2011)

Grote, M.; Wolf, E.; Will, C. L.; Lemm, I.; Agafonov, D. E.; Schomburg, A.; Fischle, W.; Urlaub, H.; Lührmann, R.: Molecular architecture of the human Prp19/CDC5L complex. Molecular and Cellular Biology 30 (9), pp. 2105 - 2119 (2010)

Wirth, M.; Paap, F.; Fischle, W.; Wenzel, D.; Agafonov, D. E.; Samatov, T. R.; Wisniewski, J. R.; Jedrusik-Bode, M.: HIS-24 linker histone and SIR-2.1 deacetylase induce H3K27me3 in Caenorhabditis elegans germ line. Molecular and Cellular Biology 29 (13), pp. 3700 - 3709 (2009)