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  • article Gouot E, Bhat W, Rufiange A, Fournier E, Paquet E, Nourani A

    Casein kinase 2 mediated phosphorylation of Spt6 modulates histone dynamics and regulates spurious transcription

    Nucleic Acids Res 46 (15), 2018.

  • article Chen S, Rufiange A, Huang H, Rajashankar KR, Nourani A, Patel DJ

    Structure-function studies of histone H3/H4 tetramer maintenance during transcription by chaperone Spt2

    Genes Dev 29 (12), 2015.

  • article Rossetto D, Cramet M, Wang AY, Steunou AL, Lacoste N, Schulze JM, Cote V, Monnet-Saksouk J, Piquet S, Nourani A, Kobor MS, Cote J

    Eaf5/7/3 form a functionally independent NuA4 submodule linked to RNA polymerase II-coupled nucleosome recycling

    EMBO J 33 (12), 2014.

  • article Bhat W, Boutin G, Rufiange A, Nourani A

    Casein kinase 2 associates with the yeast chromatin reassembly factor Spt2/Sin1 to regulate its function in the repression of spurious transcription

    Mol Cell Biol 33 (21), 2013.

  • article Avvakumov N, Nourani A, Cote J

    Histone chaperones: modulators of chromatin marks

    Mol Cell 41 (5), 2011.

  • article Thebault P, Boutin G, Bhat W, Rufiange A, Martens J, Nourani A

    Transcription regulation by the noncoding RNA SRG1 requires Spt2-dependent chromatin deposition in the wake of RNA polymerase II

    Mol Cell Biol 31 (6), 2011.

  • article Auger A, Galarneau L, Altaf M, Nourani A, Doyon Y, Utley RT, Cronier D, Allard S, Cote J

    Eaf1 is the platform for NuA4 molecular assembly that evolutionarily links chromatin acetylation to ATP-dependent exchange of histone H2A variants

    Mol Cell Biol 28 (7), 2008.

  • article Imbeault D, Gamar L, Rufiange A, Paquet E, Nourani A

    The Rtt106 histone chaperone is functionally linked to transcription elongation and is involved in the regulation of spurious transcription from cryptic promoters in yeast

    J Biol Chem 283 (41), 2008.

  • article Rufiange A, Jacques PE, Bhat W, Robert F, Nourani A

    Genome-wide replication-independent histone H3 exchange occurs predominantly at promoters and implicates H3 K56 acetylation and Asf1

    Mol Cell 27 (3), 2007.

  • article Duina AA, Rufiange A, Bracey J, Hall J, Nourani A, Winston F

    Evidence that the localization of the elongation factor Spt16 across transcribed genes is dependent upon histone H3 integrity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Genetics 177 (1), 2007.

  • article Nourani A, Robert F, Winston F

    Evidence that Spt2/Sin1, an HMG-like factor, plays roles in transcription elongation, chromatin structure, and genome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Mol Cell Biol 26 (4), 2006.

  • article Nourani A, Utley RT, Allard S, Cote J

    Recruitment of the NuA4 complex poises the PHO5 promoter for chromatin remodeling and activation

    EMBO J 23 (13), 2004.