I. Estudio de los mecanismos en el mantenimiento de la integridad genómica en plantas.
II. Mantenimiento del nicho de células troncales en plantas en respuesta a daño al ADN.

Publicaciones

1. Nisa M., Eekhout T., Bergis C., Pedroza-Garcia J. A., et al. (2023) Distinctive and complementary roles of E2F transcription factors during plant replication stress responses. Molecular Plant, 16:1269-1282. FI: 27.5

2. García-Gómez M.L., Reyes-Hernández B. J., Sahoo D. P., Napsucialy-Mendivil S., Quintana-Armas A. X., Pedroza-García J.A., et al (2022) A mutation in THREONINE SYNTHASE 1 uncouples proliferation and transition domains of the root apical meristem: experimental evidence and in silico proposed mechanism. Development, 149: dev200899. FI: 6.86

3. Pedroza-García, J. A., Xiang, Y., De Veylder, L. (2022) Cell cycle checkpoint control in response to DNA damage by environmental stresses. The Plant Journal, 109 (3): 490-507. FI: 7.091

4. Guzman-Chavez, F., Arce, A., Adhikari, A., Vadhin, S., Pedroza-Garcia, J. A., Gandini, C., Ajioka, J. W., Molloy, J., Sanchez-Nieto, S., Varner, J. D., Federici, F., Haseloff, J. (2022) Constructing cell-free expression systems for low-cost access. ACS Synthetic Biology, 11 (3), 1114-1128. FI: 5.11

5. Pedroza-Garcia, J. A., Eekhout, T., Achon, I. et al (2021) Maize ATR Safeguards Genome Stability During Kernel Development to Prevent Early Endosperm Endocycle Onset and Cell Death. The Plant Cell, 33 (8): 2662-2684. FI: 12.085

6. Nisa, M., Bergis, C., Pedroza-Garcia, J.A., et al. (2021) The plant DNA polymerase theta is essential for the repair of replication-associated DNA damage. The Plant Journal, 106 (5):1197-1207. FI: 7.091

7. Eekhout, T., Dvorackovac, M., Pedroza-Garcia, J. A., et al. (2021). G2/M-checkpoint activation in fas1 rescues an aberrant S-phase checkpoint but causes genome instability. Plant Physiology, 186 (4): 1893-1907. FI: 8.005

8. Goldoy, C., Pedroza-García, J.A., Breakfield, et al (2021) The GRAS-type SCL28 transcription factor controls the mitotic cell cycle and division plane orientation. PNAS, 118 (6) e2005256118. FI: 12.779

9. García-Mendel, P. L., Peralta-Castro, A., Baruch-Torres, N., Fuentes-Pascasio, A., Pedroza-García, J. A., Cruz-Ramírez, A., Brieba, L. G. (2021) Arabidopsis thaliana PrimPol is a primase and lesion bypass DNA polymerase with the biochemical characteristics to cope with DNA damage in the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplast. Scientific Reports, 11: 20582. IF 4.38

10. Eekhout, T., Pedroza-Garcia, J. A., Kalhorzadeh, P., De Jaeger, G., De Veylder, L. (2021) A Mutation in DNA Polymerase α Rescues WEE1KO Sensitivity to HU. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (17): 9409. IF 5.92
11. Willems, A., Heyman, J., Eekhout, T., Achon, I., Pedroza-Garcia, J. A., et al (2020). CYCA3;4 Is a Post-Prophase Target of the APC/CCCS52A2 E3-Ligase Controlling Formative Cell Divisions in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, 32 (9): 2979-2996. FI: 11.28

12. Pedroza-Garcia, J.A*., Nájera-Martínez, M*., Suzuri-Hernández, L. J., Mazubert, C., Drouin-Wahbi, J., Vázquez-Ramos, J., Raynaud. C., Plasencia, J. (2020). Maize Thymidine Kinase Activity Is Present throughout Plant Development and Its Heterologous Expression Confers Tolerance to an Organellar DNA-Damaging Agent. Plants, 9(8); 930. FI 3.93
*These authors contributed equally to this work

13. Pedroza-García, J. A*., De Veylder, L., Raynaud, C. (2019). Plant DNA Polymerases. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20, 4814. FI: 4.56
*corresponding author

14. Pedroza-García, J. A., Nájera-Martínez M., Mazubert C., et al. (2019). Role of pyrimidine salvage pathway in the maintenance of the organellar and nuclear genome integrity. The Plant Journal, 97 (3): 430-446. FI: 6.1

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