Luijsterburg lab
Transcription and DNA repair
Dr. Melanie van der Woude
Postdoc (April 2024 - present)
Publications
CFAP20 salvages arrested RNAPII from the path of co-directional replisomes
Uruci S, Boer DEC, Chrystal PW, Lalonde M, Panagopoulos A, Yakoub G, Kirdök I, de Lint K, van der Woude M, Wendel TJ, Brussee SJ, Wondergem AP, van Overbeek NK, Lingeman J, Ljungman M, van Oudenaarden A, van Attikum H, Vertegaal ACO, Noordermeer SM, Wolthuis RMF, Altmeyer M, Hamperl S, Tropepe V, van den Berg J, van den Heuvel D, Luijsterburg MS
Nature (2026) Jan 14 | link
PARP1 and PARylation facilitate transcription-coupled DNA repair by stabilizing the CSB-RNAPII complex
Robu M, Shah RG, van den Heuvel D, Coulombe Y, Bazin M, van der Woude M, Kragten A, Lans H, Pascal JM, Masson J-Y, Luijsterburg MS, Shah GM
Nucleic Acids Res (2025) Nov 26;53(22) | link
XPC-PARP complexes engage the chromatin remodeler ALC1 to catalyze global genome DNA damage repair
Blessing C, Apelt K, van den Heuvel D, Gonzalez-Leal C, Rother MB, van der Woude M, González-Prieto R, Yifrach A, Parnas A, Shah RG, Kuo TT, Boer DEC, Cai J, Kragten A, Kim HS, Schärer OD, Vertegaal ACO, Shah GM, Adar S, Lans H, van Attikum H, Ladurner AG, Luijsterburg MS
Nature communications (2022) Aug 13;13(1):4762 | link

