Ceylan Sonmez

Postdoc

Publications

2025

Ceylan Sönmez (2025)

Telomere end protection mediated by crosstalk between TRF2, RAP1, and DNA-PK (Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/9789181181678

Patrik Eickhoff, Ceylan Sonmez, Charlotte E. L. Fisher, Oviya Inian, Theodoros I. Roumeliotis, Angela Dello Stritto, Jorg Mansfeld, Jyoti S. Choudhary, Sebastian Guettler, Francisca Lottersberger, Max E. Douglas (2025)

Chromosome end protection by RAP1-mediated inhibition of DNA-PK Nature, Vol. 642, p. 1090-1096 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08896-1

2024

Ceylan Sonmez, Beatrice Toia, Patrik Eickhoff, Andreea Medeea Matei, Michael El Beyrouthy, Björn Wallner, Max E. Douglas, Titia de Lange, Francisca Lottersberger (2024)

DNA-PK controls Apollo's access to leading-end telomeres Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 52, p. 4313-4327 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae105

2020

Danuta Gawel, Jordi Serra I Musach, Sandra Lilja, Jesper Aagesen, Alex Arenas, Bengt Asking, Malin Bengner, Janne Bjorkander, Sophie Biggs, Jan Ernerudh, Henrik Hjortswang, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Mattias Köpsen, Eun Jung Jung Lee, Antonio Lentini, Xinxiu Li, Mattias Magnusson, David Martinez, Andreas Matussek, Colm Nestor, Samuel Schäfer, Oliver Seifert, Ceylan Sonmez, Henrik Stjernman, Andreas Tjärnberg, Simon Wu, Karin Åkesson, Alex K. Shalek, Margaretha Stenmarker, Huan Zhang, Mika Gustafsson, Mikael Benson (2020)

Correction: A validated single-cell-based strategy to identify diagnostic and therapeutic targets in complex diseases (vol 11, 47, 2019) Genome Medicine, Vol. 12, Article 37 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00732-7

2019

Danuta Gawel, Jordi Serra-Musach, Sandra Lilja, Jesper Aagesen, Alex Arenas, Bengt Asking, Malin Bengner, Janne Bjorkander, Sophie Biggs, Jan Ernerudh, Henrik Hjortswang, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Mattias Köpsén, Eun Jung Jung Lee, Antonio Lentini, Xinxiu Li, Mattias Magnusson, David Martinez, Andreas Matussek, Colm Nestor, Samuel Schäfer, Oliver Seifert, Ceylan Sonmez, Henrik Stjernman, Andreas Tjärnberg, Simon Wu, Karin Åkesson, Alex K. Shalek, Margaretha Stenmarker, Huan Zhang, Mika Gustafsson, Mikael Benson (2019)

A validated single-cell-based strategy to identify diagnostic and therapeutic targets in complex diseases Genome Medicine, Vol. 11, Article 47 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-019-0657-3

News

Female researcher working with cells in a lab.

New discovery reveals how chromosome ends can be protected

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that safeguards the chromosome ends from being mistakenly repaired by the cell - a mistake with potentially catastrophic outcomes.