The cytoskeleton—a complex interacting meshwork

T Hohmann, F Dehghani - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
The cytoskeleton of animal cells is one of the most complicated and functionally versatile
structures, involved in processes such as endocytosis, cell division, intra-cellular transport …

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 …

Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood

DJ Thompson, G Genovese, J Halvardson, JC Ulirsch… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common
form of clonal mosaicism,,,–, yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is …

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 …

TRIM37 controls cancer-specific vulnerability to PLK4 inhibition

F Meitinger, M Ohta, KY Lee, S Watanabe, RL Davis… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Centrosomes catalyse the formation of microtubules needed to assemble the mitotic spindle
apparatus. Centrosomes themselves duplicate once per cell cycle, in a process that is …

The mechanism of acentrosomal spindle assembly in human oocytes

T Wu, J Dong, J Fu, Y Kuang, B Chen, H Gu, Y Luo… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Meiotic spindle assembly ensures proper chromosome segregation in oocytes. However,
the mechanisms behind spindle assembly in human oocytes remain largely unknown. We …

Mechanism of ribosome-associated mRNA degradation during tubulin autoregulation

M Höpfler, E Absmeier, SY Peak-Chew… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Microtubules play crucial roles in cellular architecture, intracellular transport, and mitosis.
The availability of free tubulin subunits affects polymerization dynamics and microtubule …

Quantifying protein–protein interactions by molecular counting with mass photometry

F Soltermann, EDB Foley, V Pagnoni… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between biomolecules control the processes of life in health and their
malfunction in disease, making their characterization and quantification essential …

Assembly and positioning of the oocyte meiotic spindle

B Mogessie, K Scheffler, M Schuh - Annual review of cell and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Fertilizable eggs develop from diploid precursor cells termed oocytes. Once every menstrual
cycle, an oocyte matures into a fertilizable egg in the ovary. To this end, the oocyte …

[HTML][HTML] Generation and regulation of microtubule network asymmetry to drive cell polarity

JCM Meiring, BI Shneyer, A Akhmanova - Current opinion in cell biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Microtubules control cell architecture by serving as a scaffold for intracellular transport,
signaling, and organelle positioning. Microtubules are intrinsically polarized, and their …