Selected Publications

• Kafer, E. and G.S. May. 1997. Toward repair pathways in Aspergillus nidulans, chapter 21 in DNA Damage and Repair - Biochemistry, Genetics and Cell Biology, Editors, M.F. Hoekstra and J.A. Nickoloff, Humana Press. In press.
• Kafer, E. and G.S. May. 1997. The uvsF gene region of Aspergillus nidulans codes for a protein with homology to DNA replication factor C. Gene, 191: 155-159.
• Chae, S-K., and E. Kafer. 1997. Two uvs genes of Aspergillus nidulans with different function in error-prone repair: uvsI active in base pair-specific reversion and uvsC, a recA homolog required for all UV mutagenesis. Mol. Gen. Genet. 254: 643-653 (companion paper to: van Heemst et al., 1997. Cloning, sequencing, disruption and phenotypic analysis of uvsC, an Aspergillus nidulans homologue of yeast RAD51. Mol. Gen. Genet., 254: 643-653).
• Kafer, Etta and Suhn-Kee Chae. 1994. Phenotypic and epistatic grouping of hypo- and hyper-rec mus mutants in Aspergillus. Curr. Genet. 25: 223-232.
• Chae, S-K., and E. Käfer. 1993. uvsI mutants defective in UV mutagenesis define a fourth epistatic group of uvs genes in Aspergillus. Current Genetics 24: 67-74.
• Zhao, P., and E. Käfer. 1992. Effects of DNA repair mutations on mitotic recombination in Aspergillus nidulans. Genetics 130: 717-728.
• Oza, K., and E. Käfer. 1990. Cloning of the DNA repair gene, uvsF, by transformation of Aspergillus nidulans. Genetics 125: 341-349.
• Koa, H., M.J. Fraser, and E. Käfer. 1990. Endo-exonuclase of Aspergillus nidulans. Biochemistry and Cell Biology 68: 387-392.
• Käfer, E., A. Tittler, and M.J. Fraser. 1989. A single, phosphate-repressible deoxyribonuclease DNase A, secreted in Aspergillus nidulans. Biochem. Genet. 27: 153-166.
• Käfer, E., and O. Mayor. 1986. Genetic analysis of DNA repair in Aspergillus: Evidence for different types of MMS-sensitive hyperrec mutants. Mutation Res. 161: 119-134.