Ponomarenko, M.P., Ponomarenko, J.V., Titov. I.I., Kolchanov, N.A., Mazin, A.V., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (1998)
Predpochtitel'nost' RecA-filamenta k posledovatel'nostiam DNK korreliruet s geneticheskim kodom. [Preference of RecA-filament to the DNA sequences correlates with genetic code].
Dokl. Akad. Nauk. Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk [Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Science], 363, 122-125. [PDF-Russian] [PDF-translated]

Mazin, A.V. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (1998).
The synergistic interaction between RecA protein and SSB protein during DNA strand exchange.
In: "Modern Concepts in Evolutionary Genetics", (V.K. Shumny and A.L. Markel, eds.), Nauka, Novosibirsk, Russia, Proceedings of the Conference. [Preprint.PDF]

Mazin, A.V. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (1999).
A novel property of the RecA nucleoprotein filament: activation of dsDNA for strand exchange in trans.
Genes & Dev., 13, 2005-2016. PMID: 10444598; PMCID: PMC316918. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mazin, A.V., Zaitseva, E., Sung, P., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000).
Tailed duplex DNA is the preferred substrate for Rad51 protein-mediated homologous pairing.
EMBO J., 19, 1148-1156. PMID: 10698955; PMCID: PMC305653. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
(see commentary in CHEMTRACTS-Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 13, 415-423, 2000: [Full Text] [PDF])

Mazin, A.V., Bornarth, C.J., Solinger, J.A., Heyer, W.-D., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000).
Rad54 Protein is targeted to pairing loci by the Rad51 nucleoprotein filament.
Mol. Cell, 6, 583–592. PMID: 11030338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Lio, Y.-C., Mazin, A.V., and Kowalczykowski, S.C., and Chen, D.J. (2003).
Complex formation by the human Rad51B and Rad51C DNA repair proteins and their activities in vitro.
J. Biol. Chem., 278, 2469-2478 (published November 8, 2002 as 10.1074/jbc.M211038200). PMID: 12427746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mazin, A.V., Alexeev, A., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2003).
A novel function of Rad54 protein: stabilization of the Rad51 nucleoprotein filament.
J. Biol. Chem., 278, 14029–14036 (published February 3, 2003 as 10.1074_jbc.M212779200). PMID: 12566442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Alexeev, A., Mazin, A.V., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2003)
Rad54 protein possesses chromatin remodeling activity stimulated by the Rad51-ssDNA nucleoprotein filament.
Nature Struct. Biol., 10, 182-186 (published 10 February 2003 as doi.10.1038/nsb901). PMID: 12577053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online cover]
(see Highlight in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 4, 261 (2003); doi:10.1038/nrm1089.  [Full Text]  [PDF])
(twice Recommended paper by the Faculty of 1000  [Full Text])

(see News & Information at UC Davis News Service  [Full Text] [Printable Version])
(see International Rett Syndrome Foundation Newsletter [PDF])

Mazina, O.M., Mazin, A.V., Nakagawa T., Kolodner, R.D., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2004)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mer3 helicase stimulates 3’® 5’ DNA heteroduplex extension by Rad51: Implications for crossover control in meiotic recombination.
Cell, 117, 47-56. PMID: 15066281.  [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
(see comments in Review  [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF])
(see News & Information at UC Davis News Service  [Full Text] [Printable Version])

Thomä, N.H., Czyzewski, B.K., Alexeev, A.A., Mazin, A.V., Kowalczykowski, S.C., and Pavletich, N.P. (2005)
Structure of the SWI2/SNF2 chromatin-remodeling domain of eukaryotic Rad54.
Nature Struct. Mol. Biol., 12, 350-356. PMID: 15806108.  [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure 1] [Supplementary Figure 2] [Supplementary Figure 3] [Supplementary Figure 4] [Supplementary Figure 5] [Supplementary Table 1] [Supplementary Table 2] [Supplementary Methods]

Martinez, J.S., von Nicolai, C., Kim, T., Ehlén, A., Mazin, A.V., Kowalczykowski, S.C., and Carreira, A. (2016)
BRCA2 regulates DMC1-mediated recombination through the BRC repeats.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 3515-3520 (published online March 29, 2016 as doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601691113). PMID: 26976601; PMCID: PMC4822569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]