Publications of Berthold Kastner

Zhang, Z.; Kumar, V.; Dybkov, O.; Will, C. L.; Zhong, J.; Ludwig, S. E. J.; Urlaub, H.; Kastner, B.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: Structural insights into the cross-exon to cross-intron spliceosome switch. Nature 630, pp. 1012 - 1019 (2024)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Rigo, N.; Sun, C.; Fabrizio, P.; Kastner, B.; Lührmann, R.: Protein localisation by electron microscopy reveals the architecture of the yeast spliceosomal B complex. EMBO Journal 34 (24), pp. 3059 - 3073 (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)

Girard, C.; Will, C. L.; Peng, J.; Makarov, E. M.; Kastner, B.; Lemm, I.; Urlaub, H.; Hartmuth, K.; Lührmann, R.: Retention of posttranscriptional spliceosomes in nuclear speckles until splicing completion. Nature communications 3, 994 (2012)

Wolf, E.; Kastner, B.; Lührmann, R.: Antisense-targeted immuno-EM localization of the pre-mRNA path in the spliceosomal C complex. RNA 18 (7), pp. 1347 - 1357 (2012)

Golas, M. M.; Sander, B.; Bessonov, S.; Grote, M.; Wolf, E.; Kastner, B.; Stark, H.; Lührmann, R.: 3D cryo-EM structure of an active step I spliceosome and localization of its catalytic core. Molecular Cell 40 (6), pp. 927 - 938 (2010)