Faculty and Research

Sue Jinks-Robertson , PhD
Professor
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Representative Publications:

• Datta, A. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (1995). Association of increased spontaneous mutation rates with high levels of transcription in yeast. Science 268, 1616-1619.

• Greene, C.N. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (1996). Frameshift intermediates in homopolymer runs are removed efficiently by yeast mismatch repair proteins. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17, 2844-2850.

• Datta, A., Hendrix, M., Lipsitch, M. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (1997). Dual roles for DNA sequence identity and the mismatch repair system in the regulation of mitotic recombination in yeast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 9757-9762.

• Chen, W. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (1998). Mismatch repair proteins regulate heteroduplex formation during mitotic recombination in yeast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18, 6525-6537.

• Saxe, D., Datta, A. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2000). Stimulation of mitotic gene conversion and crossover events by high levels of RNA polymerase II transcription in yeast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 20, 5404-5414.

• Harfe, B.D. and Jinks-Robertson, S (2000). DNA polymerase ζ introduces multiple mutations when bypassing spontaneous DNA damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell 6, 1491-1499.

• Welz-Voegele, C., Stone, J.E., Tran, P.T., Kearney, H.M., Liskay, R.M., Petes, T.D. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2002). Separation-of-function alleles of the yeast PMS1 mismatch repair gene differentially affect recombination- and replication-related processes. Genetics 162, 1131-1145.

• Lippert, M.J., Freedman, J.A., Barber, M.A. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2004). Identification of a distinctive mutation spectrum associated with high levels of transcription in yeast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 24, 4801-4809.

• Minesinger, B.K. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2005). Roles of RAD6 epistasis group members in spontaneous Polζ-dependent translesion synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 169, 1939-1955.

• Sabbioneda, S., Minesinger, B.K., Giannattasio, M., Plevani, P., Muzi-Falconi, M. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2005). The 9-1-1 checkpoint clamp physically interacts with Polζ and is partially required for spontaneous Polζ-dependent mutagenesis in Sacchaormyces cerevisiae. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 38657-38665.

• Abdulovic, A.L. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2006). The in vivo characterization of translesion synthesis across UV-induced lesions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: novel insight into Polζ and Polη dependent frameshift mutagenesis. Genetics 172, 1487-1498.

• Abdulovic, A.L., Kim, N. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2006). Mutagenesis and the three R's in yeast. DNA Repair 5, 409-421.
  

• Kow, Y.W., Bao, G., Reeves, J.W., Jinks-Robertson, S. and Crouse, G.F. (2007). Oligonucleotide transformation of yeast reveals mismatch repair complexes to be differentially active on DNA replication strands. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 104, 11352-11357.
  
  
• Abdulovic, A.L., Minesinger, B.K. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2007). Identification of a strand-related bias in the PCNA-mediated bypass of spontaneous lesions by yeast Poleta. DNA Repair (Amst). 6, 1307-1318.
  

• Welz-Voegele, C. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2008). Sequence divergence impedes crossover more than noncrossover events during mitotic gap repair in yeast. Genetics 179,1251-1262.
  
  
• Abdulovic, A.L., Minesinger, B.K. and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2008). The effect of sequence context on spontaneious Polzeta-dependent mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, 2082-2093.
  
  
• Stone, J.E., Ozbirn, R.G., Petes, T.D and Jinks-Robertson, S. (2008). Role of proliferating cell nuclear antigen interactions in the mismatch repair-dependent processing of mitotic and meiotic recombination intermediates in yeast. Genetics 178, 1221-1236.