Harmon, F.G. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
Coupling of DNA helicase function to DNA strand exchange.
Methods Mol. Biol., 152, 75-89. PMID: 10957970. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mazin, A.V., Zaitseva, E., Sung, P., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
Tailed duplex DNA is the preferred substrate for Rad51 protein-mediated homologous pairing.
EMBO J., 19, 1148-1156. PMID: 10698955; PMCID: PMC305653. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
(see commentary in CHEMTRACTS-Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 13, 415-423, 2000:  [Full Text] [PDF])

Arnold, D.A. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
Facilitated loading of RecA protein is essential to recombination by RecBCD enzyme.
J. Biol. Chem., 275, 12261-12265. PMID: 10766864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Chédin, F., Ehrlich, S.D., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
The Bacillus subtilis AddAB helicase/nuclease is regulated by its cognate Chi sequence in vitro. 
J. Mol. Biol., 298, 7-20. PMID: 10756102. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Zaitsev, E.N. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
A novel pairing process promoted by Escherichia coli RecA protein: Inverse DNA and RNA strand exchange.
Genes & Dev. 14, 740-749. PMID: 10733533; PMCID: PMC316457. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Churchill, J.J. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
Identification of the RecA protein-loading domain of RecBCD enzyme.
J. Mol. Biol., 297, 537-542. PMID: 10731409. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
Initiation of genetic recombination and recombination-dependent replication.
Trends Biochem. Sci., 25, 156-165. PMID: 10754547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kowalczykowski, S.C. and von Hippel, P.H. (2000)
Tokio Kogoma (1939-1997)
Trends Biochem. Sci. 25, 155. PMID: 10754546. [Full Text] [PDF]

Bianco, P.R. and Kowalczykowski, S.C.  (2000)
The translocation step size and mechanism of the RecBC helicase.
Nature, 405, 368-372. PMID: 10830968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
(see Dispatch in Current Biology: [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF])
(see News & Information at UC Davis News Service  [Full Text] [Printable Version])
(see Science Blog [PDF])

Seitz, E.M. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
The DNA binding and pairing preference of the archaeal RadA protein demonstrates a universal characteristic of DNA strand exchange proteins.
Mol. Microbiol., 37, 555-560. PMID: 10931349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Arnold, D.A., Handa, N., Kobayashi, I., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
A novel, 11 nucleotide variant of χ, χ∗: one of a class of sequences defining the Escherichia coli recombination hotspot χ.
J. Mol. Biol., 300, 469-479. PMID: 10884344. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mazin, A.V., Bornarth, C.J., Solinger, J.A., Heyer, W.-D., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2000)
Rad54 Protein is targeted to pairing loci by the Rad51 nucleoprotein filament.
Mol. Cell, 6, 583–592. PMID: 11030338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kowalczykowski, S.C.  (2000)
Some assembly required.
Nature Structural Biology, 7, 1087-1089. PMID: 11101884. [Full Text] [PDF] [Extra Figure]