Chédin, F. and Kowalczykowski, S.C.  (2002)
A novel family of regulated helicases/nucleases from Gram-positive bacteria: insights into the initiation of DNA recombination.
Mol. Microbiol.  43, 823-834. PMID: 11929535. [Full Text] [PDF]

Haseltine, C. A., and Kowalczykowski, S.C.  (2002)
A distinctive single-stranded DNA-binding protein from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.
Mol. Microbiol.  43, 1505-1516. PMID: 11971263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

New, J.H. and Kowalczykowski, S.C.  (2002)
Rad52 protein has a second stimulatory role in DNA strand exchange that complements Replication protein-A function.
J. Biol. Chem. 277, 26171-26176  (published May 9, 2002 as 10.1074/jbc.M203670200). PMID: 12004070. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sugiyama, T. and Kowalczykowski, S.C.  (2002)
Rad52 protein associates with RPA-ssDNA to accelerate Rad51-mediated displacement of RPA and presynaptic complex formation.
J. Biol. Chem. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 31663-31672  (published June 19, 2002 as 10.1074/jbc.M203494200). PMID: 12077133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kantake, N., Madiraju, M.V.V.M., Sugiyama, T., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2002)
Escherichia coli RecO protein anneals ssDNA complexed with its cognate ssDNA-binding protein: A common step in genetic recombination.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 15327-15332 (published November 18, 2002, as 10.1073/pnas.252633399). PMID: 12438681; PMCID: PMC137716. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
(Recommended paper by Faculty of 1000 [Full Text])

Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2002)
Molecular mimicry connects BRCA2 to Rad51 and recombinational DNA repair.
Nature Struct. Biol., 9, 897-899. PMID: 12447354. [Full Text] [PDF]