Publications:
Tedeschi, F., Bruschi, C., Fragnito, C., Raffi, C. and Truzzi, G. (1979). Emorragie encefaliche del
neonato. Quaderni di Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, 34:179-194.
Tedeschi, F., Berti, R., Bruschi, C., Fragnito, C., Raffi, C., and Truzzi, G. (1979). Note sulla patologia
della tromboembolia polmonare. Rivista di Patologia e Clinica, 34:379-397.
Bruschi, C. (1979). Il consultorio nelle malattie genetiche. In: Eredita' e Vita, Edizioni Scientifiche
ESO, Parma, pp. 3-40.
Bruschi, C. (1979). Attualita` e prospettive nello studio dei chromosomi umani. In: Eredita` e Vita.
Edizioni Scientifiche ESO, Parma, pp. 70-124.
Tassi, F., Donnini, C., Bruschi, C., Puglisi, P.P. and Marmiroli, N. (1980). Compartmentalization in the
control of RNA and protein synthesis during nutritional shift-down in the yeast S. cerevisiae.
In: A. Borsellino, P. Omodeo, R. Strom, A. Vecli and E. Wanke (eds.), Developments in
Biophysical Research. Plenum Publ. Co., New York, pp. 347-353.
Bruschi, C., Tedeschi, F., Puglisi, P.P. and Marmiroli, N. (1981). Computer assisted karyotyping
system of banded chromosomes. Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 22:1-8.
Marmiroli, N., Ferrari, C., Tedeschi, F., Puglisi, P.P. and Bruschi, C. (1981). Ultrastructural analysis of
the reproductive cycle of an apomictic (apo) mutant of the yeast S. cerevisiae. I. Meiosis and
ascospore development. Biol. Cell, 41:79-84.
Marmiroli, N., Tedeschi, F., Ferrari, C., Puglisi, P.P. and Bruschi, C. (1981). Ultrastructural analysis of
the reproductive cycle of an apomictic (apo) mutant of the yeast S. cerevisiae. II. Mitotic
reproduction. Biol. Cell, 41:85-90.
Esposito, M.S., Maleas, D.T., Bjornstad, K.A. and Bruschi, C.V. (1982). Simultaneous detection of
changes in chromosome number, gene conversion and intergenic recombination during mitosis
of S. cerevisiae: Spontaneous and ultraviolet induced events. Curr. Genet., 6:5-11.
Bruschi, C.V. and Esposito, M.S. (1983). Enhancement of spontaneous mitotic recombination by the
meiotic mutant spo11-1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 80:75667570.
Esposito, M.S. and Bruschi, C.V. (1984). Molecular Mechanisms of DNA recombination: testing
mitotic and meiotic models. In: Yeast Molecular Biology - Recombinant DNA, M.S. Esposito
(Ed.), Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, pp. 242-253.
Bruschi, C.V. and Esposito, M.S. (1984). Recombination processes in a sporulation-defective mutant of
S. cerevisiae: role of Holliday structure resolution. In: Yeast Molecular Biology -Recombinant
DNA, M.S. Esposito (Ed.), Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, pp. 254-268.
Bruschi, C.V., Comer, A.R. and Howe, G.A. (1987). Specificity of DNA uptake during whole-cell
transformation of S. cerevisiae. Yeast, 3:131-137.
Bruschi, C.V. and Chuba, P.J. (1988). Nonselective enrichment for yeast adenine mutants by flow
cytometry. Cytometry, 9:60-67.
Bruschi, C.V. and Howe, G.A. (1988). High-frequency FLP-independent homologous DNA
recombination in the 2µ plasmid of the yeast S. cerevisiae. Curr. Genet., 14:191-199.
Bruschi, C.V. and Ludwig, D.L. (1989). Introduction of nonselectible 2µ DNA plasmid into [cir o] cells
of the yeast S. cerevisiae by DNA transformation and in vivo site-specific recombination. Curr.
Genet., 15:83-90.
Ludwig, D.L. and Bruschi, C.V. (1991). The 2µ plasmid as a nonselectible, stable, high copy number
yeast vector. Plasmid, 25:81-95.
Szakács Dobozi, M., Szakács G. and Bruschi, C.V. (1992). Xylanase activity of Phanerochaete
chrysosporium. Appl. Environm. Microbiol., 58:3466-3471.
Esposito, M.S. and Bruschi, C.V. (1993). Diploid yeast cells yield homozygous spontaneous mutations.
Curr. Genet., 23:430-434.
Bruschi, C.V. (Ed.) (1993). Lignin Biodegradation and Practical Utilization. Proceedings of the 1990
ICGEB Colloquium. Special Issue, J. Biotech., 30:1-158.
Ludwig, D.L., Ugolini, S. and Bruschi, C.V. (1993). High level heterologous gene expression in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae from a stable 2µ plasmid system. Gene, 132:33-40.
Esposito, M.S., Ramirez, R.M. and Bruschi, C.V. (1994). Recombinators, recombinases and
recombination genes of yeasts. Curr. Genet., 25:1-11.
Nazareth, S.W. and Bruschi, C.V. (1994).
Electrophoretic Karyotype of Fusarium solani.
Microbiology, 140:1373-1375.
Esposito, M.S., Ramirez, R.M. and Bruschi, C.V. (1994). Nonrandomly-associated forward mutation
and mitotic recombination yield yeast diploids homozygous for recessive mutations. Curr.
Genet., 26:302-307.
Degrassi, G., Polverino De Laureto, P. and Bruschi, C.V. (1995). Purification and characterization of
Ferulate and p-coumarate decarboxylase from Bacillus pumilus. Appl. Environm. Microbiol.,
61:326-332.
Bruschi, C.V. and Esposito, M.S. (1995). Cell division, mitotic recombination and onset of meiosis by
diploid yeast cells during space flight. In: Biorack on Spacelab IML-1. C. Mattox (Ed.) ESASP, 1162:83-93.
Delneri, D., Degrassi, G., Rizzo, R. and Bruschi, C.V. (1995). Degradation of trans-ferulic and pcoumaric acid by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DSM 586. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1244:363367.
Coglievina, M., Bertani, I., Klima, R., Zaccaria P. and Bruschi, C.V. (1995). The DNA sequence of a
7,941 bp fragment of the left arm of chromosome vii of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains four
open reading frames including the multicopy suppressor gene of the pop2 mutation and a
putative serine/threonine protein kinase gene. Yeast, 11:767-774.
Bertani, I., Coglievina, M., Zaccaria, P., Klima, R. and Bruschi, C.V. (1995). The sequence of an 11.1
kb fragment on the left arm of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome VII reveals six open
reading frames including NSP49, KEM1 and Four Putative new genes. Yeast, 11:1187-1194.
Zago, A., Degrassi, G., and Bruschi, C.V. (1995). Cloning, sequencing, and expression in Escherichia
coli of the Bacillus pumilus gene for ferulic acid decarboxylase. Appl. Environm. Microbiol.,
61:4484-4486.
Bruschi, C.V., McMillan, J. N., Coglievina, M. and Esposito, M. S. (1995). The genomic instability of
yeast cdc6-1/cdc6-1 mutants involves chromosome structure and recombination. Mol. Gen.
Genet., 249:8-18.
Storici, F., Oberto, J. and Bruschi, C.V. (1995). The CDC6 gene is required for centromeric, episomal
and 2µm plasmid stability in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Plasmid, 34:184-197.
Klima, R., Coglievina, M., Zaccaria, P., Bertani, I. and Bruschi, C.V. (1996). A putative helicase, the
SUA5, PMR1, tRNALys1 genes and four open reading frames have been detected in the DNA
sequence of a 8.6 kb fragment of the left arm of chromosome VII of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Yeast, 12:1033-1040.
Ugolini, S. and Bruschi C.V. (1996). The red/white colony color assay in the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae: epistatic growth advantage of white ade8-18, ade2 cells over red ade2 cells. Curr.
Genet., 30:485-492.
Coglievina, M., Klima, R., Bertani, I., Delneri, D., Zaccaria, P. and Bruschi, C.V. (1997). Sequencing
of a 40.5 kb fragment located on the left arm of chromosome VII from Saccharomyces
cerevisiae. Yeast 13:55-64.
Tettelin, H., Agostoni Carbone, M.L., Albermann, K., Albers, M., Arroyo, J., Backes, U., Barreiros, T.,
Bertani, I., Bjourson, A.J., Bruckner, M., Bruschi, C.V., et al. (1997). The nucleotide sequence
of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome VII. Nature, 387: 81-84.
Storici, F. and Bruschi, C.V. (1997) Molecular engineering with the FRT sequence of the yeast 2µm
plasmid: [ciro] segregant enrichment by counterselection for 2µm site-specific recombination.
Gene, 195: 245-255.
Bertocchi, C., Delneri, D., Signore, S., Weng, Z. and Bruschi, C.V. (1997). Characterization of
microbial cellulose from a high producing mutagenized of Acetobacter pasteurianus strain.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1336: 211-217.
Tosato, V., Albertini, A.M., Zotti, M., Sonda, S. and Bruschi, C.V. (1997). Sequence completion,
identification and definition of the fengycin operon in Bacillus subtilis 168. Microbiology, 143:
3443-3450.
Kunst, F., Ogasawara, N., Moszer, I., Albertini, A.M., Alloni, G., Azevedo, V., Bertero, M.G., Bessieres,
P., Bolotin, A., Borchert, S., Borriss, R., Boursier, L., Brans, A., Braun, M., Brignell, S.C., Bron,
S., Brouillet, S., Bruschi, C.V., Caldwell B., Capuano V., Carter N.M., Choi S.K., Codani J.J.,
Connerton I.F., Danchin A., et al. (1997). The complete genome sequence of the Gram positive
model organism Bacillus subtilis Nature, 390: 249-256.
Degrassi, G., Okeke, B.C., Bruschi, C.V. and Venturi, V. (1998). Purification and
Characterization
of an acetyl xylan esterase from Bacillus pumilus. Appl. Environm. Microbiol., 64:789-792.
Venturi, V., Zennaro, F., Degrassi, G., Okeke, B.C., and Bruschi, C.V. (1998).
Genetics
and
molecular biology of ferulic acid bioconversion to protocatechuate in plant-growth-promoting
Pseudomonas putida WCS358. Microbiology, 144:965-973.
Abramson, G., Cerdeira, H.A. and Bruschi, C.V. (1999). Fractal properties of DNA walks.
Biosystems, 49:63-70.
Ljubijankic, G., Storici, F., Glisin, V. and Bruschi, C.V. (1999). Synthesis and secretion of Providencia
rettgeri and Escherichia coli heterodimeric penicilin amidases in Saccharomices cerevisiae.
Gene, 228:225-232.
Storici, F., Coglievina, M. and Bruschi, C.V. (1999). A 2-micron DNA-based marker recycling system
for multiple gene disruption in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast, 15:271-283.
Delneri, D., Gardner, D.C.J., Bruschi, C.V. and Oliver, S.G. (1999). Disruption of seven hypothetical
aryl-alcohol dehydrogenase genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and construction of a multiple
knock-out strain. Yeast, 15:1681-1689.
Storici, F. and Bruschi, C.V. (2000). The Inverted Repeat of 2-micron DNA and its Flp Recognition
Target exhibit different efficiency as in vivo Flp recombination substrates. Mol. Gen. Genet.,
263:81-89.
Petrovic, S., Pascolo, L., Gallo, R., Cupelli, F., Ostrow, J.D., Goffeau, A., Tiribelli, C. and Bruschi,
C.V. (2000). The products of YCF1 and YLL015w (BPT1) co-operate for the ATP-dependent
vacuolar transport of unconjugated bilirubin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast, 16:561-571.
Comino, A., Ihan, A., Komel, R. and Bruschi, C.V. (2001). The conditional mutation cdc6-1 affects
chromosome segregation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Food Technol. Biotech. 39:1-4.
Pascolo, L., Petrovic, S., Cupelli, F., Bruschi, C.V., Anelli, P.L., Lorusso, V., Visigalli, Uggeri, M.F.,
Tiribelli, C. (2001). ABC protein transport of MRI contrast agents in canalicular rat liver plasma
membrane vesicles and yeast vacuoles. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 282:60-66.
Bruschi, C.V. and Gjuracic, K. (2001). Yeast Artificial Chromosomes. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences,
Nature Publishing Group, London, 12:1-6.
Tosato, V., Ciarloni, L., Ivens, A.C., Rajandream, M.A., Barrell, B.G. and Bruschi, C.V. (2001).
Secondary DNA structure analysis of the coding strand switch regions of five Leishmania major
Friedlin chromosomes. Curr. Genet., 40:186-194.
Zang, Y., Garre`, M., Gjuracic, K. and Bruschi, C.V. (2002) Chromosome V loss due to centromere
knockout or MAD2-deletion is immediately followed by restitution of homozygous diploidy in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast, 19:1-12.
Ugolini, S., Tosato, V. and Bruschi, C.V. (2002). Selective fitness of four episomal shuttle-vectors
carrying HIS3, LEU2, TRP1 and URA3 selectable markers in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Plasmid, 47:94-107.
Tosato, V., Gjuracic, K., Vlahovicek, K., Pongor, S., Danchin, A. and Bruschi, C.V. (2003). The DNA
secondary structure of the Bacillus subtilis genome. FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 218:23-30.
Waghmare, S.K., Caputo, V., Radovic, S. and Bruschi, C.V. (2003). Specific targeted integration of
kanamycin resistance-associated non-selectable DNA in the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae. BioTechniques, 34:1024-1033.
Tosato V. and Bruschi, C.V. (2004). Knowledge of the Bacillus subtilis genome: impacts on
fundamental science and biotechnology. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 64:1-6.
Gjuracic, K., Pivetta, E. and Bruschi, C.V. (2004). Targeted DNA integration within different functional
gene domains of yeast reveals ORF sequences as recombinational cold-spots. Mol. Gen.
Genomics, 271:437-446.
Tosato, V., Waghmare, S.K. and Bruschi, C.V. (2005) Non-reciprocal chromosomal translocation
induced by targeted DNA-bridge integration in yeast. Chromosoma, 114:15-27.
Waghmare, S.K. and Bruschi, C.V. (2005) Differential chromosome control of ploidy in the yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast, 22:625-639.
Ivens, A.C., Bruschi, C.V. et al., (2005) The genome of the kinetoplastid parasite, Leishmania major.
Science, 309:436-442.
Radovic, S., Rapisarda, V.A., Tosato, V. and Bruschi, C.V. (2007) Functional and comparative
characterisation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RVB1 and RVB2 genes with bacterial Ruv
homologues. FEMS Yeast Research, 7:527-539
Tosato, V. and Bruschi, C.V. (2007) Analysis and manipulation of the genome dynamic structure.
Biotechnol. and Mol. Biol. Reviews, 2:86-96
Laun, P., Bruschi, C.V., Dickinson, R., Rinnerthaler, M., Heeren, G., Schwimbersky, R., Rid, R. and
Breitenbach, M. (2007). Yeast mother cell-specific aging, genetic (in)stability, and the somatic
mutation theory of aging. Nucl. Acids Res., 35:7514-7526.
Nikitin, D., Tosato, V., Zavec, A.B. and Bruschi, C.V. (2008) Cellular and molecular effects of nonreciprocal chromosome translocations in S. cerevisiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 105:9703-08.
Tosato, V., Nicolini, C. and Bruschi, C.V. (2009) DNA bridging of homologous chromosomes in yeast
leads to near-reciprocal translocation and loss of heterozygosity with minor cellular defects.
Chromosoma, 118:179-91.
Rossi, B., Noel, P. and Bruschi, C.V. (2010) Different Aneuploidies Arise From the Same Bridgeinduced Cchromosomal Translocation Event in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genetics 186, 775790.
Arnak, R., Bruschi, C.V. and Tosato, V. (2012) Yeast Artificial Chromosomes. In: eLS. John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000379.pub3
Tosato, V., Grüning, N.M., Breitenbach, M., Arnak, R., Ralser, M. and Bruschi, C.V. (2013)
Warburg effect and translocation-induced genomic instability: two yeast models for cancer
cells. Front. Oncol. 2:212. doi:10.3389/fonc.2012.00212
Tosato, V., Sidari, S. and Bruschi, C.V. (2013) Bridge-Induced Chromosome Translocation In
Yeast Relies Upon A Rad54 / Rdh54-Dependent, Pol32-Independent Pathway. PLOS ONE,
8(4): e60926. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060926.