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Moazed D (2013). Chromatin: a tail of repression. Curr Biol 23, R456-9. [pdf]
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Moazed D (2012). A piRNA to remember. Cell 149, 512-4. [pdf]
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Moazed D (2011). Mechanisms for the inheritance of chromatin states. Cell 146, 510-8. [pdf]
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Halic M, Moazed D (2010). Dicer-Independent Primal RNAs Trigger RNAi and Heterochromatin Formation. Cell 140, 504-516. [pdf]
Moazed D (2009). Rejoice--RNAi for yeast. Science 326, 533-4. [pdf]
Halic M, Moazed D (2009). 22G-RNAs in transposon silencing and centromere function. Mol Cell 36, 170-1. [pdf]
Johnson A, Li G, Sikorski TW, Buratowski S, Woodcock CL, Moazed D (2009). Reconstitution of heterochromatin-dependent transcriptional gene silencing. Mol Cell 35, 769-81. [pdf]
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Tomson BN, Rahal R, Reiser V, Monje-Casas F, Mekhail K, Moazed D, Amon A (2009) .Regulation of Spo12 phosphorylation and its essential role in the FEAR network. Curr Biol 19, 449-60. Epub 2009 Mar 5. [pdf]
Moazed D (2009). Small RNAs in transcriptional gene silencing and genome defense. Nature 457, 413-420. [pdf]
Motamedi M, Hong EE, Li X, Gerber S, Denison C, Gygi SP, Moazed D (2008). HP1 Proteins Form Distinct Complexes and Mediate Heterochromatic Gene Silencing by Non-Overlapping Mechanisms. Mol. Cell 32, 778-790. [pdf]
Buchberger J, Onishi M, Li G, Seebacher J, Rudner AD, Gygi SP, Moazed D (2008). Sir3-Nucleosome Interactions in Spreading of Silent Chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell Biol. 28, 6903-6918. [pdf]
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Kanfi Y, Shalman R, Peshti V, Pilosof SN, Gozlan YM, Pearson KJ, Lerrer B, Moazed D, Marine JC, de Cabo R, Cohen HY (2008). Regulation of SIRT6 protein levels by nutrient availability. FEBS Lett. 582, 543-8. [pdf]
Bühler M, Spies N, Bartel D, Moazed D (2008). TRAMP-mediated RNA surveillance prevents spurious entry of RNAs into the S. pombe siRNA pathway. Nature Structural Molecular Biology 15, 1025-1023. [pdf]
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Colmenares SU, Buker S, Bühler, M, Dlakic M, Moazed D (2007). Coupling of double-stranded RNA synthesis and siRNA generation in fission yeast RNAi. Mol. Cell, 449-461. [pdf]
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Buker SM, Iida T, Bühler M, Villén J, Gygi SP, Nakayama J, Moazed D (2007). Two different Argonaute complexes are required for siRNA generation and heterochromatin assembly. Nature Structural Molecular Biology 14, 200-207. [pdf]
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Skiniotis G, Moazed D, Walz T (2007). Acetylated histone-tail peptides induce structural rearrangements in the RSC chromatin remodeling complex. J Biol Chem. 282, 20804-20808. [pdf] [supplement]
Niu H, Li X, Job E, Park C, Moazed D, Gygi SP, Hollingsworth NM (2007). Mek1 kinase is regulated to suppress double-strand break repair between sister chromatids during budding yeast meiosis. Mol Cell Biol. 7, 5456-5467. [pdf]
Moazed D, Bühler M, Buker SM, Colmenares SU, Gerace EL, Gerber SA, Hong EJ, Motamedi MR, Verdel A, Villen J, Gygi SP (2007). Studies on the mechanism of RNAi-dependent heterochromatin assembly. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 71, 461-71.
Matecic M, Martins-Taylor K, Hickman M, Tanny J, Moazed D, Holmes SG (2006). New alleles of SIR2 define cell-cycle-specific silencing functions. Genetics, 1939-1950. [pdf]
Lan F, Zaratiegui M, Villen J, Vaughn MW, Verdel A, Huarte M, Shi Y, Gygi SP, Moazed D, Martienssen RA, Shi Y (2007). S. pombe LSD1 homologs regulate heterochromatin propagation and euchromatic gene transcription. Mol Cell 26, 89-101. [pdf]
Huang J, Brito I, Villen J, Amon A, and Moazed D (2006). Inhibition of homologous recombination by a cohesin-associated clamp complex recruited to the rDNA recombination enhancer. Genes Dev Dec 15, 2887-2901. [pdf] [supplement]
Bühler M, Verdel A, and Moazed D (2006). Tethering the RITS complex to a nascent transcripts initiates RNAi- and heterochromatin-dependent gene silencing. Cell 125, 873-886. [pdf]
Martienssen R, Moazed D (2006). RNAi and Heterochromatin Assembly. CSHL Epigenetics textbook. Editors: David Allis, Thomas Jenuwein, Danny Reinberg. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, NY, USA.
Liou GG, Tanny JC, Kruger RG, Walz T, Moazed D (2005). Assembly of the SIR Complex and its Regulation by O-acetyl-ADP-ribose, a Product of NAD-Dependent Histone Deacetylation. Cell 121, 515-527. [pdf]
Rudner AD, Hall BE, Ellenberger T, Moazed D (2005). A non-histone protein-protein interaction required for assembly of the SIR complex and silent chromatin. Mol. Cell Biol. 25, 4514-4528. [pdf]
Denison C, Rudner AD, Gerber SA, Bakalarski CE, Moazed D, Gygi SP (2005). A proteomic strategy for gaining insights into protein sumoylation in yeast. Mol Cell Proteomics 2005; 4:246-54. [pdf] [supplement]
Verdel A, Moazed D (2005). RNAi-directed assembly of heterochromatin in fission yeast. FEBS lett. 579: 5872-5878. [pdf]
Hong EE, Villén J, Gerace EL, Gygi SP, Moazed D (2005). A Cullin E3 ubiquitin ligase complex associates with Rik1 and the Clr4 histone H3-K9 methyltransferase and is required for heterochromatin formation. RNA Biology 2-3: 106-111.
Sugiyama T, Cam H, Verdel A, Moazed D, Grewal SI (2005). RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is an essential component of a self-enforcing loop coupling heterochromatin assembly to siRNA production. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102,152-157. [pdf] [supplement]
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Moazed D, Rudner AD, Huang J, Hoppe GJ, and Tanny JC (2004). A model for step-wise assembly of heterochromatin in yeast. Novartis Found Symp. 259:48-56; discussion 56-62, 163-9.
Verdel A, Jia S, Gerber S, Sugiyama T, Gygi SP, Grewal SI, and Moazed D (2004). RNAi-mediated targeting of heterochromatin by the RITS complex. Science 303, 672-676. [pdf]
Huang J, Moazed D (2003). Association of the RENT complex with non-transcribed and coding regions of rDNA and a regional requirement for the replication fork block protein Fob1 in rDNA silencing. Genes & Dev. 17, 2162-2176. [pdf]
Shankaranarayana G, Motamedi MR, Moazed D, and Grewal SI (2003). Sir2 regulates histone H3 lysine 9 methylation and heterochromatin assembly in fission yeast. Curr Biol 13, 1240-1246. [pdf]
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Chang JF, Hall BE, Tanny JC, Moazed D, Filman D, Ellenberger T (2003). Structure of the coiled-coil dimerization motif of Sir4 and its interaction with Sir3. Structure 11, 637-49. [pdf]
Kellogg D, Moazed D (2002). Protein- and immuno-affinity purification of multiprotein complexes. Meth. Enzymol. 351, 172-183. [pdf]
Li J, Moazed D, Gygi SP (2002). Association of the Histone Methyltransferase Set2 with RNA Polymerase II Plays a Role in Transcription Elongation. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 49383-8. [pdf]
Hoppe G. H., Tanny, J. C., Rudner, A. D., Gerber, S. A., Danaie, S., Gygi, S. and Moazed, D. (2002). Steps in assembly of silent chromatin in yeast: Sir3-independent binding of a Sir2/Sir4 complex to silencers and a role for Sir2-dependent deacetylation. Mol. Cell Biol. 22, 4167-4180. [pdf]
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Grozinger CM, Chao ED, Blackwell HE, Moazed D, and Schreiber SL (2001). Identification of a class of small molecule inhibitors of the sirtuin family of NAD-dependent deacetylases by phenotypic screening. J Biol Chem. 276, 38837-43. [pdf]
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