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Irina Voineagu, Catherine H. Freudenreich, Sergei M. Mirkin (2009) "Checkpoint responses to unusual structures formed by DNA repeats." Molecular Carcinogenesis Volume 48 Issue 4 (p 309-318). (April 2009 Special Issue: Intrinsic Genomic Instability from Naturally Occurring DNA Structures, Edited by Karen Vasquez, Philip Hanawalt).

Alix Kerrest, Ranjith P. Anand, Rangapriya Sundararajan, Rodrigo Bermejo, Giordano Liberi, Bernard Dujon, Catherine H. Freudenreich and Guy-Franck Richard (2009) "SRS2/ and /SGS1/ Prevent Chromosomal Breaks and Stabilize Triplet Repeats by Restraining Recombination." Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 16 (Feb) 159-167.

Zhang H. and Freudenreich, C.H. (2007) An AT-rich sequence in human common fragile site FRA16D causes fork stalling and chromosome breakage in S. cerevisiae. Molecular Cell 27, 367-379.
(profiled in /Science/ News Focus “DNAs Molecular Gymnastics”, June 9, 2006 312: 1467-68.)

C.H. Freudenreich. Chromosome fragility: molecular mechanisms and cellular consequences. Front Biosci. 2007 Sep 1;12:4911-24. Review.

Yang, J. and Freudenreich, C.H. (2007) Haploinsufficiency of yeast FEN1 causes instability of expanded CAG/CTG tracts in a length-dependent manner. Gene Vol. 393, Issues 1-2, May 15, 2007, p.110-115.

Freudenreich, C. H. (2005) Molecular Mechanisms of Chromosome Fragility. ChemTracks-Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Vol 18, No.3, March 2005 (invited review for special theme issue “Unstable Microsatellites in the Human Genome, Part 2”.)

C.H. Freudenreich and Mayurika Lahiri (2004) "Structure-Forming CAG/CTG repeat sequences are sensitive to breakage in the absence of Mrcl checkpoint function and S-phase checkpoint signaling: Implications for trinucleotide repeat expansion diseases." Cell Cycle Vol. 3 (11) 1370-1374.

Lahiri M., Gustafson T.L., Majors E.R., Freudenreich C.H. (2004) "Expanded CAG repeats activate the DNA damage checkpoint pathway." Mol Cell 15: 287-293.

Liu Y., Zhang H., Veeraraghavan J., Bambara R.A., Freudenreich C.H. (2004) "Saccharomyces cerevisiae Flap Endonuclease 1 Uses Flap Equilibration to Maintain Triplet Repeat Stability." Mol Cell Biol. 24: 4040-4064.

Callahan JL, Andrews KJ, Zakian VA, Freudenreich CH. (2003) "Mutations in yeast replication proteins that increase CAG/CTG expansions also increase repeat fragility." Mol Cell Biol. 21:7849-60.

Lenzmeier BA, Freudenreich CH. (2003) "Trinucleotide repeat instability: a hairpin curve at the crossroads of replication, recombination, and repair." Cytogenet Genome Res. 100(1-4):7-24.

Balakumaran, B. S., Freudenreich, C. H., and Zakian, V. A. (2000) "CGG/CCG repeats exhibit orientation-dependent instability and orientation-independent fragility in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Human Molecular Genetics 9: 93-100.

Freudenreich, C. H., Kantrow, S. M., and Zakian, V. A. (1998) "Expansion and Length-Dependent Fragility of CTG Repeats in Yeast." Science 279: 853-856.

Freudenreich, C. H., Stavenhagen, J. B. and Zakian, V. A. (1997) "Stability of a CTG/CAG trinucleotide repeat in yeast is dependent on its orientation in the genome." Molecular and Cellular Biology, 17: 2090-2098.

Freudenreich, C. H., Chang, C., and Kreuzer, K. N. (1998) "Mutations of the bacteriophage T4 type II DNA topoisomerase that alter sensitivity to antitumor agent 4'-(9-acridinylamino)methanesulfon-m-anisidide and an antibacterial quinolone. Cancer Research 58: 1260-1267.

Kreuzer, K. N., Freudenreich, C. H., and Pommier, Y. (2001) "Analysis of cleavage complexes using reactive inhibitor derivitives." Methods in Molecular Biology: Protocols in DNA Topology and DNA Topoisomerases, 95:89-99. (Humana Press).

Freudenreich, C. H. and Kreuzer, K. N. (1994) "Localization of an aminoacridine antitumor agent in a type II topoisomerase-DNA complex." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91: 11007-11011.

Freudenreich, C. H. and Kreuzer, K. N. (1994) "Differentially labeled mutant oligonucleotides for analysis of protein-DNA interactions." BioTechniques, 16:104-108.

Freudenreich, C. H. and Kreuzer, K. N. (1993) "Mutational analysis of a type II topoisomerase cleavage site: distinct requirements for enzyme and inhibitors." EMBO J., 12: 2085-2097.

Longmire, J.L., Gee, G.F., Hardekopf, C.L., and Graham, M.A. (1992) "Establishing Paternity in Whooping Cranes (Grus Americana) by DNA analysis. The Auk 109: 522-529.

Longmire J.L., Kraemer, P.M., Brown, N.C., Hardekopf, C.L. and Deaven, L.L. (1990) "A new multi-locus DNA fingerprinting probe: pV47-2." Nuc. Acids. Res. 18:1658.