Selected Publications

Liu, Y, Warfield, L., Zhang, C., Luo, J., Allen, J., Lang, W.H., Ranish, J, Shokat, K.M., and S. Hahn (2009) Phosphorylation of the transcription elongation factor Spt5 by yeast Bur1 kinase stimulates recruitment of the PAF complex.  Mol Cell Biol in press.

Mohibullah, N and Hahn S. (2008)  Site-specific crosslinking of TBP in vivo and in vitro reveals a direct functional interaction with the SAGA subunit Spt3.  Genes Dev, 22:2994-3006.

Hahn S. (2008) Transcriptional Regulation (Meeting Review) EMBO Reports 9:612-619.

Lariviere, L., Seizl, M., van Wageningen, S., Rother, S., van de Pasch, L., Feldmann, H., Strasser, K, Hahn, S., Holstege, F.C.P., and P. Cramer (2008). Structure-system correlation identifies a gene regulatory Mediator Submodule. Genes Dev 22:872-877. PDF

Kim, B. Nesvizhskii, A.I., Rani, P.G., Hahn, S., Aebersold, R., and Ranish, J.A. (2007). The transcription elongation factor TFIID is a component of RNA polymerase II preinitiation complexes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:16068-16073. PDF

Chen H-T., Warfield, L, and Hahn, S. (2007). The positions of TFIIF and TFIIE in the RNA Polymerase II transcription Preinitiation Complex. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 14:696-703. PDF Supplementary Material

Kanin, E.I, Kipp, R.T., Kung, C., Slattery, M., Viale, A., Hahn, S., Shokat, K.M., and Ansari, A.Z. (2007). Chemical inhibition of the TFIIH associated kinase Cdk7/Kin28 does not impair global gene expression. Proc Acad Sci USA 104:5812-5817.

Miller, G., and Hahn, S. (2006) A DNA-tethered cleavage probe reveals the path for promoter DNA in the yeast preinitiation complex. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 13:603-610. PDF Supplementary Material

Reeves, W. M and Hahn S. Targets of the Gal4 transcription activator in functional transcription complexes. (2005) Mol Cell Biol., 25:9092-9102.

Fishburn, J., Mohibullah, N., and Hahn, S. (2005). Function of a eukaryotic transcription activator during the transcription cycle. Mol. Cell., 18:369-378.

Chen, H-T., and Hahn S. (2004). Mapping the location of TFIIB within the RNA Polymerase II Transcription Preinitiation Complex: A model for the Structure of the PIC Cell 119:169-180.

Ranish, J.A., Hahn, S., Lu, Y, Yi, E.C., Li, X-j, Eng, J, and Aebersold, R. (2004). Identification of TFB5, a new component of general transcription and DNA repair factor IIH. Nature Genetics 36:1-7.

Warfield, L, Ranish, J.A. and S. Hahn (2004). Positive and negative functions of the SAGA complex mediated through interaction of Spt8 with TBP and the N-terminal domain of TFIIA. Genes Dev. 18:1022-1034.

Hahn, S. (2004). Structure and Mechanism of the RNA Polymerase II transcription machinery (Review). Nat Struct Mol Biol. 11:394-403. PDF

Liu, Y, Kung, C., Fishburn, J., Ansari, A.Z., Shokat, K.M., and Hahn, S. (2004). Two cyclin-dependent kinases promote RNA polymerase II transcription and formation of the Scaffold Complex. Mol Cell Biol. 24:1721-1735.

Rani, G., Ranish, J.A., and Hahn, S. (2004). The Pol II-TFIIF and Pol II-Mediator complexes: the major stable RNA Polymerase II complexes and their activity in transcription initiaiton and reinitiation. Mol Cell Biol 24:1709-1720.

Chen, H-T. and Hahn, S. (2003). Binding of TFIIB to RNA Polymerase II: Mapping the Binding Site for the TFIIB Zinc Ribbon Domain within the Preinitiation Complex. Mol Cell12:437-448.

Reeves, W.M. and Hahn, S. (2003). Activator-Independent functions of the yeast mediator Sin4 complex in Preinitiation Complex Formation and Transcription Reinitiation. Mol Cell Biol. 23:349-358.

Liu, Y., Ranish, J.A., Aebersold, R., and Hahn, S. (2001). Yeast nuclear extract contains two major forms of RNA polymerase II Mediator complexes. (2001). J. Biol. Chem 276:7169-7175.

Yudkovsky, N., Ranish, J.A., and Hahn S. (2000). A transcription reinitiation intermediate that is stabilized by activator. Nature 408:225-229.

Hahn, S. and Roberts, S. (2000). The zinc ribbon domains of the general transcription factors TFIIB and Brf: Conserved functional surfaces but different roles in transcription initiation. Genes and Dev. 14:719-730.

Yudkovsky, N., Logie, C., Hahn, S., and Peterson, C.L. (1999). Recruitment of theSWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex by transcriptional activators. Genes and Dev. 13:2369-2374.

Hahn, S. (1998). Activation and the role of reinitiation in the control of transcription by RNA Polymerase II. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 63:181-188.

Hahn, S. (1998). The role of TAFs in RNA Polymerase II Transcription. Cell 95:579-582.

Colbert, T., Lee, S., Schimmack, G., and Hahn, S. (1998). Architecture of protein and DNA contacts within the TFIIIB-DNA complex. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18:1682-1691.

Geiger, J.H., Hahn, S., Lee, S., Sigler, P.B. (1996). The crystal structure of the yeast TFIIA/TBP/DNA complex. Science, 272:830-836.

Lee, S. and Hahn, S. (1995). Model for binding of transcription factor TFIIB to the TBP-DNA complex. Nature, 376:609-612.

Kang, J.J., Auble, D.T., Ranish, J.A., and Hahn, S. (1995). Analysis of the yeast transcription factor TFIIA: distinct functional regions and a polymerase II-specific role in basal and activated transcription. Mol Cell Biol. 15:1234-1243.

Auble, D.T., Hansen, K.E., Mueller, C.G.F., Lane, W.S., Thorner, J., and Hahn, S. (1994). Mot1, a global repressor of RNA polymerase II transcription, inhibits TBP binding to DNA by an ATP-dependent mechanism. Genes and Development 8:1920-1934.

Kim, Y., Geiger, J.H., Hahn, S. and Sigler, P.B. (1993). Crystal structure of a yeast TBP/TATA-box complex. Nature 365: 512-520.

Colbert, T. and Hahn, S (1992). A yeast TFIIB related factor involved in RNA polymerase III transcription. Genes and Dev. 6: 1940-1949.

M.C. Schultz, R.H. Reeder, and S. Hahn (1992). Variants of the TATA-binding protein can distinguish subsets of RNA polymerase I, II, and III promoters. Cell: 69, 697-702.

J. Ranish, W.S. Lane, and S. Hahn (1992). Isolation of two genes that encode subunits of the yeast transcription factor IIA. Science 255: 1127-1128.

S. Hahn, S. Buratowski, P.A. Sharp, L. Guarente (1989). Isolation of the gene encoding the yeast TATA binding protein TFIID: a gene identical to the SPT15 suppressor of Ty element insertions. Cell 58:1173-1181

Ranish, J.A., Yudkovsky, N., and Hahn, S. (1999). Intermediates in formation and activity of the RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex: holoenzyme recruitment and a postrecruitment role for the TATA box and TFIIB Genes and Dev. 13:49-63.

S. Hahn, S. Buratowski, P.A. Sharp, L. Guarente (1989). Identification of a yeast protein homologous in function to the mammalian general transcription factor, TFIIA. EMBO J. 8:3379-3382.

S. Buratowski, S. Hahn, P.A. Sharp, L. Guarente (1988) Function of a yeast TATA element-binding protein in a mammalian transcription system. Nature 334:37-42.




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