Mechanisms underlying spindle assembly and robustness

VA Valdez, L Neahring, S Petry… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
The microtubule-based spindle orchestrates chromosome segregation during cell division.
Following more than a century of study, many components and pathways contributing to …

Mitotic spindle assembly in animal cells: a fine balancing act

SL Prosser, L Pelletier - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2017 - nature.com
The mitotic spindle has a crucial role in ensuring the accurate segregation of chromosomes
into the two daughter cells during cell division, which is paramount for maintaining genome …

Building the neuronal microtubule cytoskeleton

LC Kapitein, CC Hoogenraad - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Microtubules are one of the major cytoskeletal components of neurons, essential for many
fundamental cellular and developmental processes, such as neuronal migration, polarity …

Centrosome function and assembly in animal cells

PT Conduit, A Wainman, JW Raff - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2015 - nature.com
It has become clear that the role of centrosomes extends well beyond that of important
microtubule organizers. There is increasing evidence that they also function as coordination …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamic protein interaction landscape of the human centrosome-cilium interface

GD Gupta, É Coyaud, J Gonçalves, BA Mojarad, Y Liu… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The centrosome is the primary microtubule organizing center of the cells and templates the
formation of cilia, thereby operating at a nexus of critical cellular functions. Here, we use …

Phase separation of TPX2 enhances and spatially coordinates microtubule nucleation

MR King, S Petry - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Phase separation of substrates and effectors is proposed to enhance biological reaction
rates and efficiency. Targeting protein for Xklp2 (TPX2) is an effector of branching …

Quantitative proteomic atlas of ubiquitination and acetylation in the DNA damage response

AEH Elia, AP Boardman, DC Wang, EL Huttlin… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Execution of the DNA damage response (DDR) relies upon a dynamic array of protein
modifications. Using quantitative proteomics, we have globally profiled ubiquitination …

Microtubule nucleation by γ-tubulin complexes

JM Kollman, A Merdes, L Mourey… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2011 - nature.com
Microtubule nucleation is regulated by the γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC) and related γ-
tubulin complexes, providing spatial and temporal control over the initiation of microtubule …

Mutational evolution in a lobular breast tumour profiled at single nucleotide resolution

SP Shah, RD Morin, J Khattra, L Prentice, T Pugh… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Recent advances in next generation sequencing,,, have made it possible to precisely
characterize all somatic coding mutations that occur during the development and …

Microtubule-organizing centers

J Wu, A Akhmanova - Annual review of cell and developmental …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The organization of microtubule networks is crucial for controlling chromosome segregation
during cell division, for positioning and transport of different organelles, and for cell polarity …