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  1. Systematic discovery of UFM1 receptors reveals a regulatory module in DNA repair directing non-homologous end-joining

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  2. From molecular logic to therapeutic modulation: advances in Ub/UBL signalling

    Article • Essays in Biochemistry, December 2025, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  3. UFMylation orchestrates chromatin engagement of core NHEJ components to promote DNA double-strand break repair

    Article • June 2025, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  4. Site-selective photo-crosslinking for the characterisation of transient ubiquitin-like protein-protein interactions

    Article • PLOS One, January 2025, PLOS

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  5. Ubiquitylation of nucleic acids by DELTEX ubiquitin E3 ligase DTX3L

    Article • EMBO Reports, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  6. Small-Molecule Inhibition of CBX4/7 Hypersensitises Homologous Recombination-Impaired Cancer to Radiation by Compromising CtIP-Mediated DNA End Resection

    Article • Cancers, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  7. DoUBLing up: ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteases in genome stability

    Article • Biochemical Journal, April 2024, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  8. A SAM-key domain required for enzymatic activity of the Fun30 nucleosome remodeler

    Article • Life Science Alliance, July 2023, Life Science Alliance, LLC

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  9. The RPA complex orchestrates K63-linked deubiquitination via ZUP1

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  10. Taking a LEAF out of the green lab book

    Article • The Biochemist, May 2022, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  11. Tools for Decoding Ubiquitin Signaling in DNA Repair

    Article • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, December 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  12. Nascent RNA antagonizes the interaction of a set of regulatory proteins with chromatin

    Article • Molecular Cell, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  13. G-tract RNA removes Polycomb repressive complex 2 from genes

    Article • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  14. H4K20me0 recognition by BRCA1–BARD1 directs homologous recombination to sister chromatids

    Article • Nature Cell Biology, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  15. Critical Role of the UBL Domain in Stimulating the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Activity of UHRF1 toward Chromatin

    Article • Molecular Cell, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  16. Global profiling of protein–DNA and protein–nucleosome binding affinities using quantitative mass spectrometry

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  17. H4K20me0 marks post-replicative chromatin and recruits the TONSL–MMS22L DNA repair complex

    Article • Nature, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  18. The interaction of PRC2 with RNA or chromatin is mutually antagonistic

    Article • Genome Research, May 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  19. Involvement of a eukaryotic-like ubiquitin-related modifier in the proteasome pathway of the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2015, Nature

    Professor Sonja-Verena Albers, Dr Benjamin Michael Foster

  20. Chromatin deregulation in disease

    Article • Chromosoma, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Michael Foster