Publications of Cindy L. Will

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)

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)

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, 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)