Publications

Publications

2024
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R?del, A., Weig, I., Tiedemann, S. Schwartz, U., L?ngst, G., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2024) Arabidopsis mRNA export factor MOS11: molecular interactions and role in abiotic stress responses. New Phytol. 243, 180-194.

Obermeyer, S. Kapoor, H., Markusch, H. and Grasser, K.D. (2024) Transcript elongation by RNA polymerase II in plants: factors, regulation and impact on gene expression Plant J., 118, 645 - 656.


2023
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Obermeyer, S., Schrettenbrunner, L., St?ckl, R., Schwartz, U. and Grasser, K.D. (2023) Different elongation factors distinctly modulate RNA polymerase II transcription in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Res. 51, 11518-11533.

Markusch, H., Michl-Holzinger, P., Obermeyer, S., Thorbecke, C., Bruckmann, A., Babl, S., L?ngst, G., Osakabe, A., Berger, F. and Grasser, K.D. (2023) ELF1 is a component of the Arabidopsis RNA polymerase II elongation complex and associates with a subset of transcribed genes. New Phytol. 238, 113-124.

Obermeyer, S. St?ckl, R., Schnekenburger, T., Kapoor, H., Stempfl, T., Schwartz, U. and Grasser, K.D. (2023) TFIIS is crucial during early transcript elongation for transcriptional reprogramming in response to heat stress. J. Mol. Biol. 435, 167917.?

Bleckmann, A., Spitzlberger, N., Denninger, P., Ehrnsberger, H.F., Wang, L., Bruckmann, A., Reich, S., Holzinger, P., Medenbach, J., Grasser, K.D. and Dresselhaus, T. (2023) Cytosolic RGG RNA-binding proteins are temperature sensitive flowering time regulators in Arabidopsis. Biol. Chem. 404, 1069-1084.


2022
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Michl-Holzinger, P., Obermeyer, S., Markusch, H., Pfab, A., Ettner, A., Bruckmann, A., Babl, S., L?ngst, G., Schwartz, U., Tvardovskiy, A., Jensen, O.N., Osakabe, A., Berger, F. and Grasser, K.D. (2022) Phosphorylation of the FACT histone chaperone subunit SPT16 affects chromatin at RNA polymerase II transcriptional start sites in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Res. 50, 5014-5028.

Obermeyer, S., St?ckl, R., Schnekenburger, T., Moehle, C., Schwartz, U. and Grasser, K.D. (2022) Distinct role of subunits of the Arabidopsis RNA polymerase II elongation factor PAF1C in transcriptional reprogramming. Front. Plant Sci. 13, 974625.

Cheng, J., Xu, L., Bergèr, V., Bruckmann, A., Yang, C., Schubert, V., Grasser, K.D., Schnittger, A., Zheng, B. and Jiang, H. ?(2022) H3K9 demethylases IBM1 and JMJ27 are required for male meiosis in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytol. 235, 2252-2269.

2021
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Municio, C., Antosz, W., Grasser, K.D., Kornobis, E., Van Bel, M., Eguinoa, I., Coppens, F., Br?utigam, A., Lermontova, I., Bruckmann, A., Zelkowska, K., Houben, A. and Schubert, V. (2021) The Arabidopsis condensin CAP-D subunits arrange interphase chromatin. New Phytol. 230, 972-987.

Grasser, K.D., Rubio, V. and Barneche, F. (2021) Multifaceted activities of the plant SAGA complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1864, 194613.

Kubina, J., Geldreich, A., Gales, J.P., Baumberger, N., Bouton, C., Ryabova, L.A., Grasser, K.D., Keller, M. and Dimitrova, M. (2021) Nuclear export of plant pararetrovirus mRNAs involves the TREX complex, two viral proteins and the highly structured 5’ leader region. Nucleic Acids Res. 49, 8900-8922.




2020
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Antosz, W., Deforges, J., Begcy, K., Bruckmann, A., Poirier, Y., Dresselhaus, T. and Grasser, K.D. (2020) Critical role of transcript cleavage in Arabidopsis RNA polymerase II transcriptional elongation. Plant Cell 32, 1449-1463.

Grasser, K.D. (2020) The FACT histone chaperone: tuning gene transcription in the chromatin context to modulate plant growth and development. Front. Plant Sci. 11, 85.

Khan, G.A., Deforges, J., Reis, R.S., Hsieh, Y.F., Montpetit, J., Antosz, W., Santuari, L., Hardtke, C.S., Grasser, K.D. and Poirier, Y. (2020) The transcription and export complex THO/TREX contributes to transcription termination in plants. PLoS Genet. 16, e1008732.


2019

Ehrnsberger, H.F., Pfaff, C., Hachani, I., Flores-Tornero, M., S?rensen, B.B., L?ngst, G., Sprunck, S., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2019) The UAP56-interacting export factors UIEF1 and UIEF2 function in mRNA export. Plant Physiol. 179, 1525-1536.

Michl-Holzinger, P., Mortensen, S.A. and Grasser, K.D. (2019) The SSRP1 subunit of the histone chaperone FACT is required for seed dormancy in Arabidopsis. J. Plant Physiol. 236, 105-108.

Wolozynska, M., Le Gall, S., Neyt, P., Boccardi, T.M., Grasser, M., L?ngst, G., Aesaert, S., Coussens, G., Dhondt, S., Van De Slijke, E., Buno, L., Fung-Uceda, J., Mas, P., Van Montagu, M., Inzé, D., Himanen, K., De Jaeger, G., Grasser, K.D. and Van Lijsebettens, M. (2019) Histone H2B monoubiquitination complex integrates transcript elongation with splicing at circadian clock and flowering time regulators. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116, 8060-8069.
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Ehrnsberger, H.F., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2019) Nucleocytosolic mRNA transport in plants: export factors and their influence in growth and development. J. Exp. Bot. 70, 3757-3763.

2018
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Pfab, A., Gr?nlund, J.T., Holzinger, P., L?ngst, G. and Grasser, K.D. (2018) The Arabidopsis histone chaperone FACT: role of the HMG-box domain of SSRP1. J. Mol. Biol. 430, 2747-2759.

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Ma, Y., Gil, S. Grasser, K.D. and Mas, P. (2018) Targeted recruitment of the basal transcriptional machinery by LNK clock components controls the circadian rhythms of nascent RNAs in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 30, 907-924.

Pfab, A., Bruckmann, A., Nazet, J., Merkl, R. and Grasser, K.D. (2018) The adaptor protein ENY2 is a component of the deubiquitination module of the Arabidopsis SAGA transcriptional co-activator complex but not of the TREX-2 complex. J. Mol. Biol. 430, 1479-1494.

Pfaff, C., Ehrnsberger, H.F., Flores-Tornero, M., S?rensen, B.B., Schubert, T., L?ngst, G., Griesenbeck, J., Sprunck, S., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2018) ALY RNA-binding proteins are required for nucleo-cytosolic mRNA transport and modulate plant growth and development in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 177, 226-240.

Pfab, A., Breindl, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2018) The Arabidopsis histone chaperone FACT is required for stress-induced expression of anthocyanin biosynthetic genes. Plant Mol. Biol. 96, 367-374.

Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2018) The plant RNA polymerase II elongation complex: A hub coordinating transcript elongation and mRNA processing. Transcription 9, 117-122.
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2017
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Antosz, W., Pfab, A., Ehrnsberger, H.F., Holzinger, P., K?llen, K., Mortensen, S.A., Bruckmann, A., Schubert, T., L?ngst, G., Griesenbeck, J., Schubert, V., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2017) Composition of the Arabidopsis RNA polymerase II transcript elongation complex reveals the interplay between elongation and mRNA processsing factors. Plant Cell 29, 854-870.

S?rensen, B.B., Ehrnsberger, H.F., Esposito, S., Pfab, A., Bruckmann, A., Hauptmann, A., Meister, G., Merkl, R., Schubert, T., L?ngst, G., Melzer, M., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2017) The Arabidopsis THO/TREX component TEX1 functionally interacts with MOS11 and modulates mRNA export and alternative splicing events. Plant Mol. Biol. 93, 283-298.

Pfab, A., Antosz, W., Holzinger, P., Bruckmann, A., Griesenbeck, J. and Grasser, K.D. (2017) Analysis of in vivo chromatin and protein interactions of Arabidopsis transcript elongation factors. Meth. Mol. Biol. 1629, 105-122.

2015
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Antosch, M., Schubert, V., Holzinger, P., Houben, A. and Grasser, K.D. (2015) Mitotic lifecycle of chromosomal 3xHMG-box proteins and role of their N-terminal domain in the association with rDNA loci and proteolysis. New Phytol. 208, 1067-1077.

K?llen, K., Dietz, L., Bies-Eteve, N., Lagrange, T., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2015) The zinc-finger protein SPT4 interacts with SPT5L/KTF1 and modulates transcriptional silencing in Arabidopsis. FEBS Lett. 589, 3254-3257.

2014

Van Lijsebettens, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2014) Transcript elongation factors: shaping transcriptomes after transcript initiation. Trends Plant Sci. 19, 717-726.

Stott, K., Watson, M., Bostock, M.J., Mortensen, S.A., Travers, A., Grasser, K.D. and Thomas, J.O. (2014) Structural insights into the mechanism of negative regulation of single HMG-box proteins by the acidic tail domain. J. Biol. Chem. 289, 29817-29826.

Van Lijsebettens, M., Dürr, J., Woloszynska, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2014) Elongator and SPT4/SPT5 complexes as proxy to study RNA polymerase II transcript elongation control of plant development. Proteomics 14, 2109-2114.

Dürr, J., Lolas, I.B., S?rensen, B.B., Schubert,V., Houben, A., Melzer, M., Deutzmann, R., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2014) The transcript elongation factor SPT4/SPT5 is involved in auxin-related gene expression in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Res. 42, 4332-4347.

Mortensen, S.A. and Grasser, K.D. (2014) The seed dormancy defect of Arabidopsis mutants lacking the transcript elongation factor TFIIS is caused by reduced expression of the DOG1 gene. FEBS Lett. 588, 47-51.


2013

Kammel, C,. Thomaier, M., S?rensen B.B., Schubert, T., L?ngst, G., Grasser, M. and Grasser, K.D. (2013) Arabidopsis DEAD-Box RNA helicase UAP56 interacts with both RNA and DNA as well as with mRNA export factors. PLOS ONE 8, e60644.



2012

Antosch, M., Mortensen, S.A. and Grasser, K.D. (2012)