Control of microtubule organization and dynamics: two ends in the limelight

A Akhmanova, MO Steinmetz - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Microtubules have fundamental roles in many essential biological processes, including cell
division and intracellular transport. They assemble and disassemble from their two ends …

Regulation of mitotic spindle orientation: an integrated view

F di Pietro, A Echard, X Morin - EMBO reports, 2016 - embopress.org
Mitotic spindle orientation is essential for cell fate decisions, epithelial maintenance, and
tissue morphogenesis. In most animal cell types, the dynein motor complex is anchored at …

Combining LOPIT with differential ultracentrifugation for high-resolution spatial proteomics

A Geladaki, N Kočevar Britovšek, LM Breckels… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The study of protein localisation has greatly benefited from high-throughput methods
utilising cellular fractionation and proteomic profiling. Hyperplexed Localisation of Organelle …

Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes

L Carbone, R Alan Harris, S Gnerre, KR Veeramah… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Gibbons are small arboreal apes that display an accelerated rate of evolutionary
chromosomal rearrangement and occupy a key node in the primate phylogeny between Old …

ReMAP** the microtubule landscape: How phosphorylation dictates the activities of microtubule‐associated proteins

A Ramkumar, BY Jong… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Classical microtubule‐associated proteins (MAPs) were originally identified based on their
co‐purification with microtubules assembled from mammalian brain lysate. They have since …

ISGylation–a key to lock the cell gates for preventing the spread of threats

C Villarroya-Beltri, S Guerra… - Journal of cell …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT Interferon stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) is an ubiquitin-like protein whose
expression and conjugation to targets (ISGylation) is induced by infection, interferon (IFN)-α …

Actin protects mammalian eggs against chromosome segregation errors

B Mogessie, M Schuh - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION When an egg is fertilized by a sperm, the chromosomes of the mother and
the father become united, and a genetically unique embryo starts to form. A healthy embryo …

[PDF][PDF] Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3‐mediated CD133 up‐regulation contributes to promotion of hepatocellular carcinoma

C Won, BH Kim, EH Yi, KJ Choi, EK Kim… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Enhanced expression of the cancer stem cell (CSC) marker, CD133, is closely associated
with a higher rate of tumor formation and poor prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) …

Dynein–Dynactin–NuMA clusters generate cortical spindle-pulling forces as a multi-arm ensemble

M Okumura, T Natsume, MT Kanemaki, T Kiyomitsu - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
To position the mitotic spindle within the cell, dynamic plus ends of astral microtubules are
pulled by membrane-associated cortical force-generating machinery. However, in contrast to …

[HTML][HTML] Spindle orientation in mammalian cerebral cortical development

MA Lancaster, JA Knoblich - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
In any mitotic cell, the orientation of the mitotic spindle determines the orientation of the
cleavage plane and therefore the position of the two daughter cells. When combined with …