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• M.D. Vinces, M. Legendre, M. Caldara, M. Hagihara and K.J. verstrepen (2009). Unstable Tandem Repeats in Promoters Confer Transcriptional Evolvability. Science. PDF
  • Commentary on this paper in Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Faculty of 1000 evaluation
  • Commentary published in BBC Knowledge
  • Podcast about the paper, hosted by Genetic Engineering News
  • Commentary published in Knack (in Dutch)
  • Commentary published in Mens en Molecule (in Dutch)

• Verstrepen, K.J. and Fink, G.R. Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying cell-surface variability in protozoa and fungi (2009). Annual Reviews in Genetics (ePub). PDF.

• S. Smukalla, M. Caldara, N. Pochet, A. Beauvais, S. Guadagnini, C. Yan, M.D. Vinces, A. Jansen, M-C.Prevost, J-P. Latgé, G.R. Fink, K.R. Foster and K.J. Verstrepen (2008). FLO1 is a variable green beard gene that drives biofilm-like cooperation in budding yeast. Cell 135: 726-737. PDF.
• Commentary on this paper, published in Nature (Nature News & Views)
• Minireview of this paper, published in Cell
• Blogs about this paper: ScienceBlogs, ScientificBlogging, ScienceDaily, Popular Science.
• Articles on the paper as they appeared in the Harvard Gazette and the Harvard Crimson
• Faculty of 1000 evaluation (highest rating. "exceptional")

• O.J. Rando and K.J. Verstrepen (2007). Timescales of genetic and epigenetic inheritance.
  Cell 128: 655-668. PDF
  • Discussion forum about this paper hosted by The Panda's Thumb.
  • Wikipedia and Evolve.eu websites incorporating the main idea of this paper
  • Commentary / interview in Knack (in Dutch)

• M. Legendre, N. Pochet, T. Pak and K.J. Verstrepen (2007). Sequence-based estimation of minisatellite and microsatellite repeat variability. Genome Research 17:1787–1796. PDF.
  • Online applet to find repeats in FASTA sequences and estimate their variability.

• E. Levdansky, J. Romano, Y. Shadkchan, H. Sharon, K.J. Verstrepen, G.R. Fink and N. Osherov (2007).  Coding tandem repeats generate genetic diversity in Aspergillus fumigatus genes. Euk. Cell. 6: 1380-1391. PDF.

• K.J. Verstrepen and F. Klis (2006).  Flocculation, adhesion and biofilm formation in yeasts.  Mol. Microbiol. 60: 5-15. PDF

• V. Voynov, K.J. Verstrepen, A. Jansen, S. Buratowski, G.R. Fink.  Genes with internal repeats require the THO complex for transcription.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 103: 14423-14428. PDF

• K.J. Verstrepen, A. Jansen, F. Lewitter and G.R. Fink (2005).  Intragenic repeats generate functional variability.  Nature Genetics 37: 986-990. PDF
  • Summary of this paper from Science magazine
  • Summary of this paper published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
  • Coverage in Belgian press (De Standaard, De Morgen)

• K.J. Verstrepen, T.B. Reynolds and G.R. Fink (2004). Origins of variation in the fungal cell surface.  Nature Microbiol. Rev.  2: 533-540. PDF

• K.J. Verstrepen, D. Iserentant, P. Malcorps, G. Derdelinckx, P. Van Dijck, J. Winderickx, I.S. Pretorius, J.M Thevelein and F.R. Delvaux (2004).  Glucose and sucrose: hazardous fast-food for industrial yeasts?  Trends Biotechnol. 22:531-537. PDF