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• Firsanov D, Zacher M, Tian X, Sformo TL, Zhao Y, Tombline G, Lu JY, Zheng Z, Perelli L, Gurreri E, Zhang L, Guo J, Korotkov A, Volobaev V, Biashad SA, Zhang Z, Heid J, Maslov A, Sun S, Wu Z, Gigas J, Hillpot E, Martinez J, Lee M, Williams A, Gilman A, Hamilton N, Haseljic E, Patel A, Straight M, Miller N, Ablaeva J, Tam LM, Couderc C, Hoopman M, Moritz R, Fujii S, Hayman DJ, Liu H, Cai Y, Leung AKL, Simons MJP, Zhang Z, Nelson CB, Abegglen LM, Schiffman JD, Gladyshev VN, Modesti M, Genovese G, Vijg J, Seluanov A, Gorbunova V. DNA repair and anti-cancer mechanisms in the long-lived bowhead whale. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Nov 5:2023.05.07.539748. doi: 10.1101/2023.05.07.539748.

• Yimeng Zhu, Angelina Li, Suvrajit Maji, Brian J. Lee, Sophie M. Korn, Jake A. Gertie, Tyler J. Dorrity, Jianhua Wang, Kyle J. Wang, Amandine Pelletier, Daniel F. Moakley, Rachel D. Kelly, Antony B. Holmes, Raul Rabadan, David R. Edgell, Caroline Schild Poulter, Mauro Modesti, Anna-Lena Steckelberg, Eric A. Hendrickson, Hachung Chung, Chaolin Zhang, Shan Zha. Ku suppresses RNA-mediated innate immune responses in human cells to accommodate primate-specific Alu expansion. Submitted

• Zhu Y, Lee BJ, Fujii S, Jonchhe S, Zhang H, Li A, Wang KJ, Rothenberg E, Modesti M, Zha S. The KU70-SAP domain has an overlapping function with DNA-PKcs in limiting the lateral movement of KU along DNA. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Aug 27:2024.08.26.609806.

• Buehl CJ, Goff NJ, Mikhova M, Hardwick SW, Blundell TL, Modesti M, Schmidt JC, Chaplin A, Meek K. Unravelling the complexities of DNA-PK activation by structure-based mutagenesis. Res Sq [Preprint]. 2023 Dec 13:rs.3.rs-3627471.