Results will be shared among the centers through direct exchanges between the scientists and discussion in the work groups and will be disseminated to the entire scientific community.
- Dbl2 interacts with helicases and an endonuclease to maintain the integrity of repetitive regions Anetta Bakosova, Lubos Cipak, Nina Mayerova, Kamil Krol, Zsigmond Benko, Alexandra Pitelova, Peter Kolesar, Dominika Piatrova, Maria Smondrkova, Anna Maresova, Lucia Molnarova, Ingrid Cipakova, Veronika Altmannova, Jana Bellova, Peter Barath, Martin Prevorovsky, Jan Palecek, Lumir Krejci, Juraj Gregan, Adrianna Skoneczna, Silvia Bagelova Polakova Scientific Reports 15 DOI 10.1038/s41598-025-08626-7
- Discovery of new inhibitors of nuclease MRE11 Fedor Nikulenkov, Benoit Carbain, Raktim Biswas, Stepan Havel, Jana Prochazkova, Alexandra Sisakova, Magdalena Zacpalova, Melita Chavdarova, Victoria Marini, Vit Vsiansky, Veronika Weisova, Kristina Slavikova, Dhanraj Biradar, Prashant Khirsariya, Marco Vitek, David Sedlak, Petr Bartunek, Lukas Daniel, Jan Brezovsky, Jiri Damborsky, Kamil Paruch, Lumir Krejci European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 285 DOI 10.1016/j.ejmech.2024.117226
- From Genome to Geroscience: How DNA Damage Shapes Systemic Decline Athanasios Siametis, George A. Garinis BioEssays DOI 10.1002/bies.70051
- Lessons from Portugal on effects of cutting research funding Marc Veldhoen, João T. Barata, Luisa M. Figueiredo, Claus M. Azzalin Nature 639 DOI 10.1038/d41586-025-00928-0
- Looping forward: exploring R‐loop processing and therapeutic potential Kalliopi Stratigi, Athanasios Siametis, George A. Garinis FEBS Letters 599 DOI 10.1002/1873-3468.14947
- Loss of genome maintenance is linked to mTOR complex 1 signaling and accelerates podocyte damage Fabian Braun, Amrei M. Mandel, Linda Blomberg, Milagros N. Wong, Georgia Chatzinikolaou, David H. Meyer, Anna Reinelt, Viji Nair, Roman Akbar-Haase, Phillip J. McCown, Fabian Haas, He Chen, Mahdieh Rahmatollahi, Damian Fermin, Robin Ebbestad, Gisela G. Slaats, Tillmann Bork, Christoph Schell, Sybille Koehler, Paul T. Brinkkoetter, Maja T. Lindenmeyer, Clemens D. Cohen, Martin Kann, David Unnersjö-Jess, Wilhelm Bloch, Matthew G. Sampson, Martijn E.T. Dollé, Victor G. Puelles, Matthias Kretzler, George A. Garinis, Tobias B. Huber, Bernhard Schermer, Thomas Benzing, Björn Schumacher, Christine E. Kurschat JCI Insight 10 DOI 10.1172/jci.insight.172370
- Mechanism of BCDX2-mediated RAD51 nucleation on short ssDNA stretches and fork DNA Masaki Akita; Paul Girvan; Mario Spirek; Jiri Novacek; David Rueda; Zbynek Prokop; Lumir Krejci Nucleic Acids Research DOI 10.1093/nar/gkae770
- Molecular Cell Chiara Merigliano , Taehyun Ryu , Jakub Cibulka , Chetan C. Rawal , Colby D. See , Anik Mitra , Trevor W. Reynolds , Nadejda L. Butova , Christopher P. Caridi , Xiao Li , Jeff Wang , Changfeng Deng , David M. Chenoweth , Patrick Sung , Maya Molecular Cell DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.08.012
- RECQ4-MUS81 interaction contributes to telomere maintenance with implications to Rothmund-Thomson syndrome Raghib Ashraf, Hana Polasek-Sedlackova, Victoria Marini, Jana Prochazkova, Zdenka Hasanova, Magdalena Zacpalova, Michala Boudova, Lumir Krejci Nature Communications 16 DOI 10.1038/s41467-025-56518-1
- Reading the DNA of telomeres Shamayita Roy, Claus M Azzalin eLife 14 DOI 10.7554/eLife.107648
- TRF1 relies on fork reversal to prevent fragility at human telomeres Mélina Vaurs, Eloïse Claude, Elia Zanella, Joana Rodrigues, Joe Nassour, Jan Karlseder, Claus M. Azzalin, Ylli Doksani, Anabelle Decottignies Nature Communications 16 DOI 10.1038/s41467-025-61828-5
- Targeting DNA damage in ageing: towards supercharging DNA repair Arturo Bujarrabal-Dueso, George A. Garinis, Paul D. Robbins, Jan Vijg, Björn Schumacher Nature Reviews Drug Discovery DOI 10.1038/s41573-025-01212-6
- Telomeric Repeat-Containing RNA: Biogenesis, Regulation, and Functions Patricia L. Abreu, Valentina Riva, Luca Zardoni, Claus M. Azzalin Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology DOI 10.1101/cshperspect.a041683
- The epitranscriptome: reshaping the DNA damage response Vivian Kalamara, George A. Garinis Trends in Cell Biology 35 DOI 10.1016/j.tcb.2024.06.008