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  1. EBV BALF2 DNA annealing intermediate structure reveals the mechanism of annealing during recombination

    Article • July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  2. Structural characterisation of the complete cycle of sliding clamp loading in Escherichia coli

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  3. Half a century after their discovery: Structural insights into exonuclease and annealase proteins catalyzing recombineering

    Article • Engineering Microbiology, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  4. Structural characterisation of the complete cycle of sliding clamp loading inEscherichia coli

    Article • July 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  5. Redβ177 annealase structure reveals details of oligomerization and λ Red-mediated homologous DNA recombination

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  6. Structure of phage λ Redβ177 annealase shows how it anneals DNA strands during single-strand annealing homologous DNA recombination

    Article • April 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  7. Molecular basis for RNA polymerase-dependent transcription complex recycling by the helicase-like motor protein HelD

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  8. Half a century of bacteriophage lambda recombinase: In vitro studies of lambda exonuclease and Red‐beta annealase

    Article • IUBMB Life, July 2020, Wiley

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  9. Revealing the molecular mechanisms of a retinal genetic disease

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Gökhan Tolun, Bernard Heymann

  10. Retinoschisin at 4 Å Resolution from cryo-EM: A Junctional Model of Back-to-Back Octamers for Adhesion in the Retina

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  11. Structural Basis of hAT Transposon End Recognition by Hermes, an Octameric DNA Transposase from Musca domestica

    Article • Cell, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  12. Details of ssDNA annealing revealed by an HSV-1 ICP8-ssDNA binary complex

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  13. The NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase activity of SIRT1 is regulated by its oligomeric status

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2012, Nature

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  14. E. coliDNA replication in the absence of free β clamps

    Article • The EMBO Journal, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  15. The Killing of African Trypanosomes by Ethidium Bromide

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, December 2010, PLOS

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  16. TbPIF1, a Trypanosoma brucei Mitochondrial DNA Helicase, Is Essential for Kinetoplast Minicircle Replication

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, December 2009, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  17. Concerted Loading of Mcm2–7 Double Hexamers around DNA during DNA Replication Origin Licensing

    Article • Cell, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  18. The Werner Syndrome Protein Binds Replication Fork and Holliday Junction DNAs as an Oligomer

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2008, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Gökhan Tolun

  19. Schizosacchromyces pombe Dpb2 Binds to Origin DNA Early in S Phase and Is Required for Chromosomal DNA Replication

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, June 2003, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Dr Gökhan Tolun