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  1. Drosha drives the formation of DNA:RNA hybrids around DNA break sites to facilitate DNA repair

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2018, Nature

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  2. Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Heterochromatin

    Article • Biomolecules, December 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  3. Human BRCA1–BARD1 ubiquitin ligase activity counteracts chromatin barriers to DNA resection

    Article • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, May 2016, Nature

    Dr Felicity Z Watts, Dr Robert K Neely

  4. Sumoylation of eIF4A2 affects stress granule formation

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, May 2016, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  5. ATM Localization and Heterochromatin Repair Depend on Direct Interaction of the 53BP1-BRCT2 Domain with γH2AX

    Article • Cell Reports, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  6. Tpz1TPP1 SUMOylation reveals evolutionary conservation of SUMO-dependent Stn1 telomere association

    Article • EMBO Reports, June 2014, EMBO

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  7. Sumoylation of eIF4G

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2014, PLOS

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  8. ubiquitination and sumoylation of translation factors

    Article • Translation, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  9. How is sumoylation regulated?

    Article • Chromosoma, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  10. Role of SUMO in meiosis

    Article • BioEssays, May 2011, Wiley

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  11. SUMO-like domains of Rad60 - a protein that interacts with the Smc5/6 complex

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2010, PLOS

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  12. Role of the inter-BRCT linker

    Article • DNA Repair, February 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  13. SUMOylation is required for normal development of linear elements and wild-type meiotic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Chromosoma, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  14. S. pombe SUMO chains

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2009, PLOS

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  15. Crb2/53BP1 BRCT domains

    Article • Genes & Development, August 2008, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  16. The role of Schizosaccharomyces pombe SUMO ligases in genome stability

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, December 2007, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  17. The role of SUMO in chromosome segregation

    Article • Chromosoma, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  18. Ubiquitination of PCNA

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, April 2006, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  19. Role of sumoylation of PCNA

    Article • DNA Repair, March 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  20. SUMO Modification Is Involved in the Maintenance of Heterochromatin Stability in Fission Yeast

    Article • Molecular Cell, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  21. S. pombe Nep1

    Article • Biochemical Journal, July 2005, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  22. Sumoylation of an S. pombe telomere protein

    Article • Biochemical Genetics, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  23. Smc5/6 complex composition

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2005, ASM Journals

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  24. Nse2 SUMO ligase

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2005, ASM Journals

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  25. SUMO modification of proteins other than transcription factors

    Article • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, April 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  26. Expression, purification and preliminary X-ray analysis of the BRCT domain from Rhp9/Crb2

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, June 2003, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  27. Characterization of SUMO-conjugating enzyme mutants in Schizosaccharomyces pombe identifies a dominant-negative allele that severely reduces SUMO conjugation

    Article • Biochemical Journal, May 2003, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  28. SUMO modification of Rad22, the Schizosaccharomyces pombe homologue of the recombination protein Rad52

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, October 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  29. The role of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad32, the Mre11 homologue, and other DNA damage response proteins in non-homologous end joining and telomere length maintenance

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, July 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  30. Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad32 protein: a phosphoprotein with an essential phosphoesterase motif required for repair of DNA double strand breaks

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, December 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  31. P VIII.14 S. pombe rad32 protein: A phosphoprotein required for mating type switching

    Article • Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, September 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  32. Cloning and characterisation of of S. pombe crb2 gene (homologue of human 53BP1)

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, June 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  33. Characterisation of Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad31, a UBA-related gene required for DNA damage tolerance

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  34. Type II myosin involved in cytokinesis in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton, January 1997, Wiley

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  35. Type II myosin involved in cytokinesis in the fission yeast,Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton, January 1997, Wiley

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  36. Targeting the Plant Alternative Oxidase Protein to Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mitochondria Confers Cyanide-insensitive Respiration

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 1996, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  37. Cloning and characterisation of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad32 gene: a gene required for repair of double strand breaks and recombination

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  38. Floral expression of a gene encoding an E2-relatedubiquitin-conjugating protein from Arabidopsis thaliana

    Article • Plant Molecular Biology, October 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  39. Antibody to an abnormal protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies Lewy body-like inclusions in ALS and Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, September 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  40. Cloning of S. pombe rad8: encoding ubiquitin E3 ligase

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  41. Evolutionary conservation of excision repair in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: evidence for a family of sequences related to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD2 gene

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  42. Isolation of Arabidopsis homologues to yeast cell cycle genes

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  43. Schizosaccharomyces pombe mitochondria: Morphological, respiratory and protein import characteristics

    Article • Yeast, November 1992, Wiley

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  44. Characterisation of PHSP1, a cDNA encoding a mitochondrial HSP70 fromPisum sativum

    Article • Plant Molecular Biology, January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  45. Cloning and characterisation of the S.pombe rad15 gene, a homologue to the S.cerevisiae RAD3 and human ERCC2 genes

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1992, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  46. DNA repair in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, September 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  47. Cloning and characterisation of the rad9 DNA repair gene from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  48. Assignment of ten DNA repair genes from Schizosaccharomyces pombe to chromosomal NotI restriction fragments

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  49. Cloning of the S. pombe homologue of human ToBP1

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  50. Isolation of a gene encoding a mitochondrial HSP70 protein from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Gene, October 1990, Elsevier

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  51. Isolation of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe homologue to the rat ribosomal protein, L7

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, August 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  52. The MYO1 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae : its complete nucleotide sequence

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  53. Nucleotide sequence of a full length cDNA clone encoding a polyubiquitin gene from Pisum sativum

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Felicity Z Watts

  54. Yeast myosin

    Article • Nature, July 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Felicity Z Watts