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Erik Larson

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Publications

Larson ED, Maizels N.  UNG and MutSalpha direct redundant pathways for repair of uracil in DNA.  (in prep).

Vallur A, Yabuki M, Larson ED, Maizels N.  AID in antibody perfection.  (2007) Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 64, 555-65.


Larson ED, Cummings WJ, Bednarski DW, Maizels N. (2005) MRE11/RAD50 cleaves DNA in the AID/UNG-dependent pathway of immunoglobulin gene diversification. Mol. Cell 20, 367-75.

Larson ED, Duquette ML, Cummings WJ, Streiff R, Maizels N. (2005) MutSalpha binds to and promotes synapsis of transcriptionally activated immunoglobulin switch regions.  Curr. Biol. 15, 470-4.  

Larson ED, Maizels N. (2004) Transcription-coupled mutagenesis by the DNA deaminase AID.  Genome Biol. 5, 211.

Wang H, Yang Y, Schofield MJ, Du C, Fridman Y, Lee SD, Larson ED, Drummond JT, Alani E, Hsieh P, Erie DA. (2003) DNA bending and unbending by MutS govern mismatch recognition and specificity.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100, 14822-7.

Larson ED, Iams K, Drummond JT. (2003) Strand-specific processing of 8-oxoguanine by the human mismatch repair pathway: inefficient removal of 8-oxoguanine paired with adenine or cytosine.  DNA Repair (Amst.) 2, 1199-210.

Iams K, Larson ED, Drummond JT. (2002) DNA template requirements for human mismatch repair in vitro.  J. Biol. Chem. 277, 30805-14.

Larson ED, Nickens D, Drummond JT. (2002) Construction and characterization of mismatch-containing circular DNA molecules competent for assessment of nick-directed human mismatch repair in vitro.  Nucleic Acids Res. 30, E14.

Larson ED, Drummond JT. (2001) Human mismatch repair and G/T mismatch binding by hMutSalpha in vitro is inhibited by adriamycin, actinomycin D, and nogalamycin.  J. Biol. Chem. 276, 9775-8.

Hughes CR, Larson ED. (2000) Characterization of microsatellite loci developed for the wattled curassow, Crax globulosa.  Mol. Ecol. 9, 632-
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