Recent Publications

Safi, A., Wallace, K.A., and Rusche, L.N. (2008) “Evolution of new function through a single amino acid change in the yeast repressor Sum1p.” Mol. Cell. Biol. 28:2567. link to journal

Hickman, M.A. and Rusche L.N. (2007) “Substitution as a mechanism for genetic robustness: The duplicated deacetylases Hst1p and Sir2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” PLOS Genet 3:e126. link to journal

Hickman, M.A. and Rusche L.N. (2007) “Evolution of silencing at the mating-type loci in hemiascomycetes” in Sex in Fungi: molecular determination and evolutionary implications. Heitman, Casselton, and Kronstad editors, ASM press.

Lynch, P.J., Fraser, B.H., Sevastopoulos, E., Rine, J., and Rusche, L.N. (2005). “Sum1p, the Origin Recognition Complex, and the spreading of a promoter-specific repressor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” Mol. Cell. Biol. 25:5920. link to journal

Rusche, L. N., Kirchmaier, A. L., and Rine, J. (2003). The Establishment, inheritance, and function of silenced chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ann Rev Biochem 72:481-516. link to journal

Rusche, L. N., Kirchmaier, A. L., and Rine, J. (2002). Ordered nucleation and spreading of silenced chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 13, 2207-2222. link to journal

Rusche, L. N., and Rine, J. (2001). Conversion of a gene-specific repressor to a regional silencer. Genes Dev 15, 955-967. link to journal