Publications
Guintini L, Paillé A, Graf M, Luke B, Wellinger RJ, Conconi A (2022) Transcription of ncRNAs promotes repair of UV induced DNA lesions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae subtelomeres. PLOS Genetics 18, e1010167 DOI
Paillé A, Charton R, Dholandre Q, Conconi A (2021) The Efficiency of Global Genome‐Nucleotide Excision Repair is Linked to the Fraction of Open rRNA Gene Chromatin, in Yeast. Photochem Photobiol 98, 696-706 DOI
Paillé A, Charton R, Muguet A, Griesenbeck J, Smerdon MJ, Conconi A (2019) Analyses of rRNA gene chromatin in cell cycle arrested Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. Data in Brief 104083 DOI
Charton R, Muguet A, Griesenbeck J, Smerdon MJ, Conconi A (2019) In yeast cells arrested at the early S-phase by hydroxyurea, rRNA gene promoters and chromatin are poised for transcription while rRNA synthesis is compromised. Mutat Res 815, 20-29 Pubmed
Conconi A and Bell B (2017) The long and short of a DNA-damage response. Nature News & Views 545, 165-166 Pubmed
Guintini L, Tremblay M, Toussaint M, D’Amours A, Wellinger RE, Wellinger RJ, Conconi A (2017) Repair of UV-induced DNA lesions in natural Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomeres is moderated by Sir2 and Sir3, and inhibited by yKu–Sir4 interaction. Nucl Acids Res 45, 4577-4589 Pubmed
Peyresaubes F, Zeledon C, Guintini L, Charton R, Muguet A, Conconi A (2016) RNA polymerase-I dependent transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair of UV induced DNA lesions at transcription termination sites, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Photochem Photobiol 93, 363–374 Pubmed
Conconi A (2015) Preface. DNA Repair 36, v-vi Pubmed
Guintini L, Charton R, Peyresaubes F, Thoma F, Conconi A (2015) Nucleosome positioning, nucleotide excision repair and photoreactivation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DNA Repair 36, 98-104 Pubmed
Charton R, Guintini L, Peyresaubes F, Conconi A (2015) Repair of UV induced DNA lesions in ribosomal gene chromatin and the role of “Odd” RNA polymerases (I and III). DNA Repair 36, 49-58 Pubmed
Peyresaubes F, D’Amours A, Leduc F, Grégoire MC, Boissonneault G, Conconi A (2015) Immuno-capture of UVDE generated 3’-OH ends at UV photoproducts. DNA Repair 36, 156-161 ScienceDirect
Tremblay M, Charton R, Wittner M, Levasseur G, Griesenbeck J, Conconi A (2014) UV light-induced DNA lesions cause dissociation of yeast RNA polymerases-I and establishment of a specialized chromatin structure at rRNA genes. Nucl Acids Res 42, 380-395 Pubmed
Grisenbeck J, Wittner M, Charton R and Conconi A (2012) Chromatin Endogenous cleavage and psoralen crosslinking assays to analyze rRNA gene chromatin in vivo. In: Transcriptional Regulation: Methods and Protocols. Methods Mol Biol 809, 291-301 Humana press NY Pubmed
Pelloux J, Tremblay M, Wellinger RJ and Conconi A (2012) UV induced DNA damage and DNA repair in ribosomal genes chromatin. In: Transcriptional Regulation: Methods and Protocols. Methods Mol Biol 809, 303-320 Humana press NY Pubmed
Toussaint M, Wellinger RJ and Conconi A (2010) Differential participation of homologous recombination and nucleotide excision repair in yeast survival to ultraviolet light radiation. Mutat Res 698, 52-59 Pubmed
Tremblay M, Toussaint M, D’Amours A and Conconi A (2009) Nucleotide excision repair and photolyase repair of UV photoproducts in nucleosomes; assessing the existence of nucleosome and non-nucleosome rDNA chromatin in vivo. Biochem Cell Biol 87, 337-346 Pubmed
Tremblay M, Teng Y, Paquette M, Waters R and Conconi A (2008) Complementary roles of yeast Rad4p and Rad34p in nucleotide excision repair of active and inactive rRNA gene chromatin. Mol Cell Biol 28, 7504-7513 Pubmed
Catala M, Tremblay M, Samson E, Conconi A and Abu Elela S (2008) Deletion of Rnt1p alters the proportion of open versus closed rRNA gene repeats in yeast. Mol Cell Biol 28, 619-629 Pubmed
Conconi A (2007) Yeast as a model system to study DNA damage and DNA repair. In: Sourcebook of Models for Biomedical Research, pp. 445-453 (ed. P.M. Conn), Humana Press, Totowa NJ.
Toussaint M and Conconi A (2006) High-throughput and sensitive assay to measure yeast cell growth: a bench protocol for testing genotoxic agents. NATURE Prot 1, 1922-1928 Nature Protocol
Toussaint M, Levasseur G, Gervais-Bird J, Wellinger RJ, Abou Elela S and Conconi A (2006) A high throughput method to measure the sensitivity of yeast cells to genotoxic agents in liquid cultures. Mutat Res 606, 92-105 Pubmed
Conconi A*, Paquette M, Bespalov V, Fahy D and Smerdon MJ (2005) Repair-independent chromatin assembly onto active ribosomal genes in yeast after UV irradiation. Mol Cell Biol 25, 9773-9783 (* corresponding author) Pubmed
Fahy D, Conconi A and Smerdon MJ (2005) Rapid changes in transcription and chromatin structure of ribosomal genes in yeast during growth phase transitions. Exp Cell Res 305, 365-373 Pubmed
Toussaint M, Levasseur G, Tremblay M, Paquette M and Conconi A (2005) Psoralen photo-crosslinking: a tool to study the structure of rDNA chromatin. Biochem Cell Biol 83, 449-459 (review) Pubmed
Conconi A (2005) The yeast rDNA locus: a model system to study DNA repair in chromatin. DNA Repair 4, 897-908 Pubmed
Conconi A and Wellinger RJ (2003) A New link for a Linker Histone. Mol Cell 11, 1421-1423 Pubmed