Publications
Schwer, B. and Meszaros, T. (2000) RNA helicase dynamics in pre-mRNA splicing. EMBO J. 19, 6582-6591.
Schwer, B., Lehman, K., Saha, N. and Shuman, S. (2001) Characterization of the mRNA capping apparatus of Candida albicans. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 1857-1864.
Schwer, B. (2001) A new twist on RNA helicases: DExH/D box proteins as RNPases. Nature Struct. Biol. 8, 113-116.
Schneider, S. and Schwer, B. (2001) Functional domains of the yeast splicing factor Prp22p. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 21184-21191.
Campodonico, E. and Schwer , B. (2002) ATP-dependent remodeling of the spliceosome: Intragenic suppressors of release-defective mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Prp22. Genetics 160, 407-415.
Schneider, S., Hotz, H.-R. and Schwer, B. (2002) Characterization of dominant-negative mutants of the DEAH-box splicing factors Prp22 and Prp16. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 15452-15458.
Martin, A., Schneider, S. and Schwer, B. (2002) Prp43 is an essential RNA-dependent ATPase required for release of lariat-intron from the spliceosome. J Biol. Chem. 277, 17743-17750.
James, S-A., Turner, W. and Schwer, B. (2002) How Slu7 and Prp18 cooperate in the second step of yeast pre-mRNA splicing. RNA 8, 1068-1077.
Saha, N., Shuman, S. and Schwer, B. (2003) A yeast-based genetic system for functional analysis of poxvirus mRNA cap methyltransferase. J. Virol. 77, 7300-7307.
Sawaya, R., Schwer, B. and Shuman, S. (2003) Genetic and biochemical analysis of the functional domains of yeast tRNA ligase. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 43928-43938.
Schneider, S., Campodonico, E. and Schwer, B. (2004) Motifs IV and V in the DEAH-box splicing factor Prp22 are important for RNA unwinding and helicase-defective Prp22 mutants are suppressed by Prp8. J Biol Chem. 279, 8617-8626.
Schwer, B., Sawaya, R., Ho, C.K. and Shuman, S. (2004) Portability and fidelity of RNA repair systems: T4 RNA ligase 1 and polynucleotide kinase-phosphatase can replace yeast tRNA ligase in vivo and bypass the essential NAD -dependent 2 phosphotransferase Tpt1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 2788-2793.
Tanaka, N. and Schwer, B. (2005) Characterization of the NTPase, RNA-Binding, and RNA Helicase Activities of the DEAH-Box Splicing Factor Prp22. Biochemistry 44, 9795-9803.
