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Rodríguez, I., Lázaro, J.M., Salas, M. and de Vega, M. (2009). Involvement of the TPR2 subdomain movement in the activities of ø29 DNA polymerase. Nucl. Acids Res. 37, 193-203.
Castilla-Llorente, V., Salas, M. and Meijer, W.J.J. (2009). Different responses to Spo0A-mediated suppression of the related Bacillus subtilis phages Nf and ø29. Environm. Microbiol. 11, 1137-1149.
Castilla-Llorente, V., Meijer W.J.J. and Salas, M. (2009). Differential Spo0A-mediated effects on transcription and replication of the related Bacillus subtilis phages Nf and ø29 explain their different behaviours in vivo. Nucl.Acids Res. 37, 4955-4964.
de Vega, M. and Salas, M. (2009) Bacteriophage ø29 DNA polymerase: An outstanding replicase. In: Kundsen, W.D. and Bruns, S.S. (eds.) Bacterial DNA, DNA polymerase and DNA helicases. Nova Science Publishers Inc., pp. 329-351.
Muñoz-Espín, D., Daniel, R,. Kawai, Y., Carballido-López, R., Castilla-Llorente, V., Errington, J., Meijer, W.J.J. and Salas, M. (2009). The actin-like MreB cytoskeleton organizes viral DNA replication in bacteria. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 106, 13347-13352.
Pérez-Arnaiz, P., Lázaro, J.M., Salas, M. and de Vega, M. (2009). Functional importance of bacteriophage ø29 DNA polymerase residue Tyr148 in primer-terminus stabilisation at the 3’-5’ exonuclease active site. J. Mol. Biol. 391, 797-807.
Ibarra, B., Chemla, Y.R., Plyasunov, S., Smith, S.B., Lázaro, J.M., Salas, M. and Bustamante, C. (2009). Proofreading dynamics of a processive DNA polymerase. EMBO J., 28, 2794-2802.
Salas, M. (2009). A passion for research. Cell Mol. Life Sci. 66, 3827-3830.
Gutiérrez del Arroyo, P., Vélez, M., Piétrement, O., Salas, M., Carrascosa, JL. and Camacho,A. (2009). A nucleoprotein-hairpin in transcription regulation. J. Struct. Biol. 168, 444-451.
Salas, M. and Camacho, A. (2010). DNA bending and looping in the transcripcional control of bacteriophage ø29. FEMS Mircbiol.Rev. 34, 828-841.
Muñóz-Espín, D., Holguera, I., Ballesteros-Plaza, D., Carballido-López, R. and Salas, M. (2010). Viral terminal protein directs early organization of phage DNA replication at the bacterial nucleoid. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 107, 16548-16553.
Pérez-Arnáiz, P., Lázaro, J.M., Salas, M. and de Vega, M. (2010). Ø29 DNA polymerase active site: role of residue Val250 as metal-dNTP complex ligand and in protein-primed initiation. J.Mol.Biol. 395, 223-233.
de Vega, M., Lázaro, J.M., Mencía, M., Blanco, L. and Salas, M. (2010). Improvement of ø29 DNA polymerase amplification performance by fusion of DNA binding motifs. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 107, 16506-16511.
Baños, B., Villar, L., Salas, M. and de Vega, M. (2010). Intrinsic AP endonuclease activity enables Bacillus subtilis DNA polymerase X to recognize, incise and further repair abasic sites. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 107, 19219-19224.
Camacho, A. and Salas, M. (2010). Molecular interactions and protein-induced DNA hairpin in the transcriptional control of bacteriophage ø29 DNA. Int.J.Mol.Sci. 11, 5129-5142.
Meijer, W. J.J., Muñoz-Espín, D., Castilla-Llorente V. and Salas, M. (2007) Phage phi29: membrane-associated DNA replication and mechanism of alternative infection strategy. In Bacteriophage: Genetics and Molecular Biology. Ed. Stephen McGrath. Horizon Scientific Press. pp 273-305.
Salas, M. (2007) 40 years with bacteriophage ø29. Annu. Rev. Microbiol.61, 1-22.
Muñoz-Espín, D., Fuertes, M.A., Jiménez, M., Villar, L., Alonso, C., Rivas, G., Salas M. and Meijer, W.J.J. (2007) Structural and functional analysis of ø29 p16.7C dimerization mutants: identification of a novel aromatic-cage dimerization motif. J. Biol.Chem. 282, 16521-16531.
Mendieta, J., Pérez-Lago, L., Salas, M. and Camacho, A. (2007) DNA sequence-specific recognition by a transcriptional regulator through indirect readout of A-tracts. Nucl.Acids Res. 35, 3252-3261.
Alcorlo, M., González-Huíci, V., Hermoso, J.M., Meijer, W.J.J. and Salas, M. (2007) The phage ø29 membrane protein p16.7, involved in DNA replication, is required for efficient ejection of the viral genome. J. Bacteriol. 189, 5542-5549.
Berman, A.J., Kamtekar, S., Goodman, J.L., Lázaro, J.M., de Vega, M., Blanco, L., Salas, M. and Steitz, T.A. (2007) Structures of phi29 DNA polymerase complexed with substrate: the mechanism of translocation in B-family polymerases. EMBO J. 26, 3494-3505.
de Vega, M. and Salas, M. (2007) A highly conserved Tyrosine residue of family B DNA polymerases contributes to dictate translesion synthesis past 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydro-2’-deoxyguanosine. Nucl. Acids Res. 35, 5096-5107.
Serrano-Heras, G., Ruiz-Masó, J., del Solar, G., Espinosa, M., Bravo, A. and Salas, M. (2007). Protein p56 from the Bacillus subtilis phage ø29 inhibits DNA-binding ability of uracil-DNA-glycosylase. Nucl. Acids Res. 35, 5393-5401.
Alcorlo, M., Salas, M. and Hermoso, J.M. (2007) In vivo DNA binding of bacteriophage GA-1 protein p6. J. Bacteriol. 189, 8024-8033.
Pérez-Arnaiz, P., Longás, E., Lázaro, J.M., Salas, M. and de Vega, M. (2007) Involvement of phage ø29 DNA polymerase and terminal protein subdomains in conferring specificity during initiation of protein-primed DNA replication. Nucl.Acid Res. 35, 7061-7063.
Salas, M., Blanco, L., Lázaro, J.M. and de Vega, M. (2008) My favorite enzyme: the bacteriophage ø29 DNA polymerase. IUBMB Life. 60, 82-85.
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Lahoud, G., Timoshchuk, V., Lebedev, A., de Vega, M., Salas, M., Aarar, K., Hou, Y-M. and Gamper, H.. Enzymatic synthesis of structure-free DNA with pseudo-complementary properties. Nucl. Acids Res. 36, 3409-3419.
Castilla-Llorente, V., Salas, M. and Meijer, W.J.J. (2008) kinC/D-mediated heterogeneous expression of spo0A during logarithmical growth in Bacillus subtilis is responsible for partial suppression of ø29 development. Mol. Microbiol. 68, 1406-1417.
Baños, B., Lázaro, J.M., Villar, L., Salas, M. and de Vega, M. (2008). Editing of misaligned 3'-termini by an intrinsic 3'-5' exonuclease activity residing in the PHP domain of a family X DNA polymerase. Nucl. Acids Res. 36, 5736-5749.
Serrano-Heras, G., Bravo, A. and Salas, M. (2008). Phage ø29 protein p56 prevents viral DNA replication impairment caused by uracil excision activity of uracil-DNA glycosylase. Proc.Natl.Acad. Sci.USA. 105, 19044-19049.
Longás, E., Villar, L., Lázaro, J.M., de Vega, M. and Salas, M. (2008). Phage ø29 and Nf terminal protein-priming domain specifies the internal template nucleotide to initiate DNA replication. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 105, 18290-18295.
Baños, B., Lázaro, J.M., Villar, L., Salas, M. and de Vega, M. (2008). Characterization of a Bacillus subtilis 64-kDa DNA Polymerase X Potentially Involved in DNA Repair. J. Mol. Biol. 384, 1019-1028.