Understanding Cytokinetic Actomyosin Ring Assembly Through Genetic Code Expansion, Click Chemistry, DNA origami, and in vitro Reconstitution

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Peer reviewed articles (7)

Steric hindrance in the upper 50 kDa domain of the motor Myo2p leads to cytokinesis defects in fission yeast

Author(s): Saravanan Palani, Ramanujam Srinivasan, Paola Zambon, Anton Kamnev, Pananghat Gayathri, Mohan K. Balasubramanian
Published in: Journal of Cell Science, Issue 131/1, 2018, Page(s) jcs205625, ISSN 0021-9533
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.205625

Rapid production of pure recombinant actin isoforms in Pichia pastoris

Author(s): Tomoyuki Hatano, Salvatore Alioto, Emanuele Roscioli, Saravanan Palani, Scott T. Clarke, Anton Kamnev, Juan Ramon Hernandez-Fernaud, Lavanya Sivashanmugam, Bernardo Chapa-y-Lazo, Alexandra M. E. Jones, Robert C. Robinson, Karuna Sampath, Masanori Mishima, Andrew D. McAinsh, Bruce L. Goode, Mohan K. Balasubramanian
Published in: Journal of Cell Science, Issue 131/8, 2018, Page(s) jcs213827, ISSN 0021-9533
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.213827

Equatorial Assembly of the Cell-Division Actomyosin Ring in the Absence of Cytokinetic Spatial Cues

Author(s): Tzer Chyn Lim, Tomoyuki Hatano, Anton Kamnev, Mohan K. Balasubramanian, Ting Gang Chew
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 28/6, 2018, Page(s) 955-962.e3, ISSN 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.088

Opposing kinesin complexes queue at plus tips to ensure microtubule catastrophe at cell ends

Author(s): John C Meadows, Liam J Messin, Anton Kamnev, Theresa C Lancaster, Mohan K Balasubramanian, Robert A Cross, Jonathan BA Millar
Published in: EMBO reports, 2018, Page(s) e46196, ISSN 1469-221X
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201846196

Myo2p is the major motor involved in actomyosin ring contraction in fission yeast

Author(s): Paola Zambon, Saravanan Palani, Anton Kamnev, Mohan K. Balasubramanian
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 27/3, 2017, Page(s) R99-R100, ISSN 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.024

Actin turnover maintains actin filament homeostasis during cytokinetic ring contraction

Author(s): Ting Gang Chew, Junqi Huang, Saravanan Palani, Ruth Sommese, Anton Kamnev, Tomoyuki Hatano, Ying Gu, Snezhana Oliferenko, Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan, Mohan K. Balasubramanian
Published in: The Journal of Cell Biology, 2017, Page(s) jcb.201701104, ISSN 0021-9525
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201701104

Motor Activity Dependent and Independent Functions of Myosin II Contribute to Actomyosin Ring Assembly and Contraction in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Author(s): Saravanan Palani, Ting Gang Chew, Srinivasan Ramanujam, Anton Kamnev, Shrikant Harne, Bernardo Chapa-y-Lazo, Rebecca Hogg, Mayalagu Sevugan, Mithilesh Mishra, Pananghat Gayathri, Mohan K. Balasubramanian
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 27/5, 2017, Page(s) 751-757, ISSN 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.028