Publications of Björn Schwalb

Lysakovskaia, K.; Devadas, A.; Schwalb, B.; Lidschreiber, M.; Cramer, P.: Promoter-proximal RNA polymerase II termination regulates transcription during human cell type transition. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2025)

Velychko, T.; Mohammad, E.; Ferrer-Vicens, I.; Parfentev, I.; Werner, M.; Studniarek, C.; Schwalb, B.; Urlaub, H.; Murphy, S.; Cramer, P. et al.; Lidschreiber, M.: CDK7 kinase activity promotes RNA polymerase II promoter escape by facilitating initiation factor release. Molecular Cell 84 (12), pp. 2287 - 2303.e10 (2024)

Sun, Y.; Wiese, M.; Hmadi, R.; Karayol, R.; Seyfferth, J.; Martinez Greene, J.A.; Erdogdu, N.U.; Deboutte, W.; Arrigoni, L.; Holz, H. et al.; Renschler, G.; Hirsch, N.; Foertsch, A.; Basilicata, M.F.; Stehle, T.; Shvedunova, M.; Bella, C.; Pessoa Rodrigues, C.; Schwalb, B.; Cramer, P.; Manke, T.; Akhtar, A.: MSL2 ensures biallelic gene expression in mammals. Nature 624 (7990), pp. 173 - 181 (2023)

Baar, T.; Dümcke, S.; Gressel, S.; Schwalb, B.; Dilthey, A.; Cramer, P.; Tresch, A.: RNA transcription and degradation of Alu retrotransposons depends on sequence features and evolutionary history. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 12 (5), jkac054 (2022)

Caizzi, L.; Monteiro-Martins, S.; Schwalb, B.; Lysakovskaya, K.; Schmitzova, J.; Sawicka, A.; Chen, Y.; Lidschreiber, M.; Cramer, P.: Efficient RNA polymerase II pause release requires U2 snRNP function. Molecular Cell 81 (9), pp. 1920 - 1934.e9 (2021)

Sawicka, A.; Villamil, G.; Lidschreiber, M.; Darzacq, X.; Dugast‐Darzacq, C.; Schwalb, B.; Cramer, P.: Transcription activation depends on the length of the RNA polymerase II C‐terminal domain. EMBO Journal 40 (9), e107015 (2021)

Lykke-Andersen, S.; Zumer, K.; Molska, E. Š.; Rouvière, J. O.; Wu, G.; Demel, C.; Schwalb, B.; Schmid, M.; Cramer, P.; Jensen, T. H.: Integrator is a genome-wide attenuator of non-productive transcription. Molecular Cell, in Press (2020)

Maier, K. C.; Gressel, S.; Cramer, P.; Schwalb, B.: Native molecule sequencing by nano-ID reveals synthesis and stability of RNA isoforms. Genome Research 30 (9), pp. 1332 - 1344 (2020)

Tellier, M.; Zaborowska, J.; Caizzi, L.; Mohammad, E.; Velychko, T.; Schwalb, B.; Ferrer-Vicens, I.; Blears, D.; Nojima, T.; Cramer, P. et al.; Murphy, S.: CDK12 globally stimulates RNA polymerase II transcription elongation and carboxyl-terminal domain phosphorylation. Nucleic Acids Research 48 (14), pp. 7712 - 7727 (2020)

Jaeger, M. G.; Schwalb, B.; Mackowiak, S. D.; Velychko, T.; Hanzl, A.; Imrichova, H.; Brand, M.; Agerer, B.; Chorn, S.; Nabet, B. et al.; Ferguson, F. M.; Müller, A. C.; Bergthaler, A.; Gray, N. S.; Bradner, J. E.; Bock, C.; Hnisz, D.; Cramer, P.; Winter, G. E.: Selective Mediator dependence of cell-type-specifying transcription. Nature Genetics 52 (7), pp. 719 - 727 (2020)

Gressel, S.; Schwalb, B.; Cramer, P.: The pause-initiation limit restricts transcription activation in human cells. Nature Communicationsvolume 10 (1), 3603 (2019)

Zylicz, J. J.; Bousard, A.; Zumer, K.; Dossin, F.; Mohammad, E.; da Rocha, S. T.; Schwalb, B.; Syx, L.; Dingli, F.; Loew, D. et al.; Cramer, P.; Heard, E.: The implication of early chromatin changes in X chromosome inactivation. Cell 176 (1-2), pp. 182 - 197 (2019)

Dienemann, C.; Schwalb, B.; Schilbach, S.; Cramer, P.: Promoter distortion and opening in the RNA polymerase II cleft. Molecular Cell 73 (1), pp. 97 - 106 (2019)

Gressel, S.; Schwalb, B.; Decker, T. M.; Qin, W.; Leonhardt, H.; Eick, D.; Cramer, P.: CDK9-dependent RNA polymerase II pausing controls transcription initiation. eLife 6, e29736 (2017)

Xu, Y.; Bernecky, C.; Lee, C. T.; Maier, K. C.; Schwalb, B.; Tegunov, D.; Plitzko, J. M.; Urlaub, H.; Cramer, P.: Architecture of the RNA polymerase II-Paf1C-TFIIS transcription elongation complex. Nature Communications 8, 15741 (2017)

Bäjen, C.; Andreani, J.; Torkler, P.; Battaglia, S.; Schwalb, B.; Lidschreiber, M.; Maier, K. C.; Boltendahl, A.; Rus, P.; Esslinger, S. et al.; Söding, J.; Cramer, P.: Genome-wide analysis of RNA polymerase II termination at protein-coding genes. Molecular Cell 66 (1), pp. 38 - 49 (2017)

Michel, M.; Demel, C.; Zacher, B.; Schwalb, B.; Krebs, S.; Blum, H.; Gagneur, J.; Cramer, P.: TT-seq captures enhancer landscapes immediately after T-cell stimulation. Molecular Systems Biology 13 (3), 920 (2017)

Zacher, B.; Michel, M.; Schwalb, B.; Cramer, P.; Tresch, A.; Gagneur, J.: Accurate promoter and enhancer identification in 127 ENCODE and roadmap epigenomics cell types and tissues by GenoSTAN. PLoS One 12 (1), e0169249 (2017)

Schwalb, B.; Michel, M.; Zacher, B.; Frühauf, K.; Demel, C.; Tresch, A.; Gagneur, J.; Cramer, P.: TT-seq maps the human transient transcriptome. Science 352 (6290), pp. 1225 - 1228 (2016)

Schwalb, B.: Dynamic transcriptome analysis (DTA): kinetic modeling of synthesis and decay of mRNA transcripts upon perturbation in S.cerevisiae, S.pombe and D.melanogaster. Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (2012)