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1. Lim, J.; Giri, P. K.; Kazadi, D.; Laffleur, B.; Zhang, W.; Grinstein, V.; Pefanis, E.; Brown, L. M.; Ladewig, E.; Martin, O.; Chen, Y.; Rabadan, R.; Boyer, F.; Rothschild, G.; Cogné, M.; Pinaud, E.; Deng, H.; Basu, U., Nuclear Proximity of Mtr4 to RNA Exosome Restricts DNA Mutational Asymmetry. Cell 169 (3), 523-537.e15.​
2. Rothschild, G., and Basu, U. Lingering Questions about Enhancer RNA and Enhancer Transcription-Coupled Genomic Instability. Trends in Genetics 33, 143-154.
3. Laffleur, B., Basu, U., and Lim, J. RNA Exosome and Non-coding RNA-Coupled Mechanisms in AID-Mediated Genomic Alterations. Journal of Molecular Biology
10.1016/0022-2836/2016.12.021.

4. Casellas R.,Basu U.,Yewdell W.T.,Chaudhuri J.,Robbiani D.F.,Di Noia J.M.(2016)Mutations,kataegis and translocations in B cells:understanding AID promiscuous activity, Nature Reviews Immunology, 16(03):164-176.

5. Sun J., Wang J., Pefanis E., Chao J., Rothschild G., Tachibana I., Chen J.K., Ivanov I.I., Rabadan R.,Takeda Y.,Basu U.(2015) Transcriptomics identify CD9 as a marker of murine IL10-competent regulatory B cells, Cell Reports, 13(6): 1110-1117.
6. Rothschild G., Krusenstiern A.N., Basu U (2015) Malaria-Induced B cell Genomic Instability. Cell, 4(162), 697-698.
7. Pefanis E., and Basu U., (2015) RNA exosome regulates AID DNA mutator activity in the B cell genome, Advances in Immunology,127:257-308..
8. Pefanis E., Wang J., Rothschild G., Lim J., Kazadi D., Sun J., Federation A., Chao J., Elliot O., Liu Z-P., Economides A., Bradner J.E., Rabadan R., Basu U. (2015) RNA Exosome-Regulated Long Non-coding RNA Transcription Controls Super-Enhancer Activity. Cell, 7;161(4):774-89.
9. Pefanis E., Wang J., Rothschild G., Lim J., Chao J., Rabadan R., Economides A., Basu U. (2014) Non-coding RNA transcription targets AID to divergently transcribed loci in B cells. Nature, 514(7522):389-93.
10. Chao J., Rothschild G., Basu U. (2014) Ubiqutination events that regulate recombination of immunoglobulin loci gene segments. Frontier in Immunology. 5:100. eCollection 2014.
11. Sun J, Keim C, Wang J, Kazadi K, Rabadan R, Basu U. (2013) E3-ubiquitin ligase Nedd4 determines the fate of AID-associated RNA polymerase II in B cells. Genes and Development, 27:1821-1833.
12. Sun J, Rothschild G, Pefanis E, Basu U. (2013), Transcription stalling in B-lymphocytes: A mechanism for antibody diversification and maintenance of genomic integrity. Transcription 4(3):1-9.
13. Keim, C., Kazadi, D., Rothschild, G., Basu, U. (2013) Regulation of AID, the B cell genome mutator. Genes and Development 27(1):1-17.
14. Ise W, Kohyama M, Schraml BU, Zhang T, Schwer B, Basu U, Alt FW, Tang J, Oltz EM, Murphy TL, Murphy KM. (2011) The transcription factor BATF controls the global regulators of class-switch recombination in both B cells and T cells. Nature Immunology 12(6): 536-543.
15. Basu, U., Meng, F., Keim, C., Grinstein ,V., Pefanis, E., Myers., D., Gregory, R.I., Deng H., Lima C., Alt F.W. (2011) The RNA Exosome Targets the AID Cytidine Deaminase to Both Strands of Transcribed Duplex DNA Substrates. Cell 144(3): 353-363.
16. Keim, C., Grinstein, V., and Basu, U. (2011) Recombinant Retroviral Production and Infection of B Cells. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 18; (48).

PRIOR TO 2009
1. Cheng, H.L., Vuong, B., Basu, U., Franklin, A., Schwer, B., Phan, R., Datta, A., Manis, J., Alt F.W. and Chaudhuri, J. (2009) Integrity of the AID Serine-38 Phosphorylation Site is Critical for Class Switch Recombination and Somatic Hypermutation in Mice. PNAS 106(8):2717-22.
2. Basu, U., Franklin, A., Schwer, B., Cheng, H-L, Chaudhuri, J., Alt, F.W. (2009) Regulation of Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase DNA Deamination Activity in B cells by Serine-38 phosphorylation. Biochem Soc Trans. 37(Pt 3):561-8.
3. Basu, U., Franklin, A. and Alt, F.W. (2009) Post-translational regulation of activation induced deaminase. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Sciences 364(1517):667-73.
4. Basu, U., Wang, Y., Alt, F.W. (2008) Evolution of phosphorylation-dependent regulation of Activation Induced cytidine Deaminase. Molecular Cell 32(2):285-291.
5. Ray, P., Basu, U., Ray, A., Majumdar, R., Maitra, U. (2008) The Saccharomyces cerevisiae 60S Ribosome Biogenesis Factor Tif6p is Regulated by Hrr25p-mediated Phosphorylation. J. Biol. Chem. 283(15):9681-91.
6. Chaudhuri, J., Basu, U., Zarrin, A., Yan, C., Franco, S., Perlot, T., Vuong, B., Wang, J., Phan, R.T., Datta, A., Manis, J., and Alt, F.W. (2007) Evolution of the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Class Switch Recombination Mechanism. Advances in Immunology 94:157-214.
7. Basu, U., Chaudhuri, J., Phan, R.T., Datta, A., and Alt, F.W. (2007) Regulation of activation induced deaminase via phosphorylation. In: Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation XI, Gupta, S., Cooper, M., Rajewsky, K., Alt, F.W., Melchers, F., eds. New York, Springer. pp. 129-137.
8. Longerich, S., Basu, U., Alt, F.W., Storb U. (2006) AID in somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination. Curr. Opin. Immunol. 18(2), 164-174.
9. Basu, U., Chaudhuri , J., Alpert, C., Dutt, S., Rangananth, S., Li, G., Schrum, J.P., Manis, J.P. and Alt, F.W. (2005) The AID antibody diversification enzyme is regulated by protein kinase A phosphorylation. Nature 438(7067), 508-511.
10. Basu U. (2004) Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 6 (eIF6) and Regulation of 60S Ribosome Biogenesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University.
11. Basu, U., Si K., Deng, H., and Maitra, U. (2003). Phosphorylation of Mammalian Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 6 and its Saccharomyces cerevisiae Homologue Tif6p: Evidence that Phosphorylation of Tif6p Regulates its Nucleocytoplasmic Distribution and is Required for Yeast Cell Growth. Mol. Cell. Biol. 23(17), 6187-6199. 12. Basu, U., Si, K, Warner,J., and Maitra, U. (2001). The Saccharomyces cerevisiae TIF6 Gene Encoding Translation Initiation Factor 6 is required for 60S Ribosomal Subunit Biogenesis. Mol. Cell. Biol. 75(5), 1453-1462. ​