| Hatano, T., Alioto, S., Roscioli, E., Palani, S., Clarke, S.T., Kamnev, A., Hernandez-Fernaud, J.R., Sivashanmugam, L., Chapa-Y-Lazo, B., Jones, A., Robinson, R.C., Sampath, K., Mishima, M., McAinsh., A., Goode, B.l., Balasubramanian, M.K. (2018) Rapid production of pure recombinant actin in Pichia pastoris. J Cell Science , doi: 10.1242/jcs.213827. |
| Lim, T., Hatano, T., Kamnev, A., Balasubramanian, M.K.**, and Chew, T.G. (2018) Equatorial Assembly of the Cell Division Actomyosin Ring in the Absence of Cytokinetic Spatial Cues. Current Biology , doi: 10.1242/jcs.213827. |
| Chiou, J., Balasubramanian, MK, Lew, DJ (2017) Yeast Cell Polarity. Annual Reviews in Cell and Developmental Biology , 33: 77-101. |
| Palani, S., Srinivasan, R., Zambon, P., Kamnev, A., Gayathri, P., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2017) Evidence that a steric clash in the upper 50KDa domain of the motor Myo2p leads to cytokinesis defects in fission yeast. J Cell Science , doi: 10.1242/jcs.205625. |
| Chew, TG, Huang J, Palani, S., Kamnev, A, Hatano, T., Somesse, R., Gu, Y., Oliferenko, S., Sivaramakrishnan, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2017) Actin turnover ensures actin filament homeostasis during cytokinetic ring contraction. J Cell Biology , 216: 2657-2667. |
| Palani, S., Chew, TG, Srinivasan, R., Kamnev, A., Mishra, M., Sevugan, M., Chapa-y-Lazo, B., Gayathri, P., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2017) Motor activity dependent and independent functions for Myosin II in Cytokinesis. Current Biology , 12:751-757. |
| Zambon, P., Palani, S., Kamnev, A., Balasubramanian, M.K. (2017) Myo2p is the major motor involved in Actomyosin Ring Contraction in S.pombe Current Biology , 27:R99-100. |
| Huang, J., Chew, TG, Gu, Y., Palani, S., Kamnev, A., Carter, N., Martin, D, Cross, RA., Oliferenko, S., Balasubramanian,M.K. (2016) Curvature induced expulsion of actomyosin bundles during cytokinesis in fission yeast. eLife , http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21383 |
| Sethi K, Palani S, Cortés JC, Sato M, Sevugan M, Ramos M, Vijaykumar S, Osumi M, Naqvi NI, Ribas JC, Balasubramanian M. (2016) A New Membrane Protein Sbg1 Links the Contractile Ring Apparatus and Septum Synthesis Machinery in Fission Yeast. PLoS Genet , 12(10):e1006383 |
| Cheffings, T., Burroughs, N.J., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2016) Actomyosin ring formation and tension generation in eukaryotic cytokinesis. Current Biology , 26: R719-37 |
| Jiang, S., Narita, A., Popp, D., Ghoshdastider, U., Lee, L.J., Srinivasan, R., Balasubramanian, M.K., Oda, T., Koh, F., Larsson, M., Robinson, R.C. (2016) Novel actin filaments from Bacillus thuringiensis form nanotubules for plasmid DNA segregation. Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA , 113:E1000-1005 |
| Huang, J., Mishra, M., Chew, T.G., Palani, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2016) Isolation of cytokinetic actomyosin rings from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Methods in Molecular Biology , 1369: 125-136. |
| Shao, N., Singh, S., Jones, A., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2015) Site-specific genetic incorporation of Azido-phenylalanine in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Scientific Reports , 5, 17196; doi: 10.1038/srep17196. |
| Tao, E.Y., Calvert M.E., and Balasubramanian M.K. (2014) Rewiring Mid1p independent Medial Division in Fission Yeast. Current Biology ,18: 2181-2188. |
| Srinivasan, R., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2014) Chromosomes: Bacteria spring a surprise. eLife ,203435. |
| Mishra, M., Huang, J., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2014) The yeast actin cytoskeleton. FEMS Microbiology Reviews ,38: 213-227. |
| Mishra, M., Kashiwazaki, J., Tagagi, T., Huang, Y., Srinivasan, R., Balasubramanian, M.K.**, and Mabuchi, I.** (2013) In Vitro Contraction of Cytokinetic Ring Depends on Myosin II but not on Actin Dynamics. Nature Cell Biology ,15: 853-859. |
| Balasubramanian, M.K., and Tao, E.Y. (2013) Timing it right: Precise ON/OFF switches for Rho1 and Cdc42 GTPases in cytokinesis. J Cell Biology, 202:187-189. |
| Kian-Hong Ng, Vinayaka Srinivas, Ramanujam Srinivasan and Mohan Balasubramanian (2013) The Nitrosopumilus maritimus CdvB, but not FtsZ, Assembles into Polymers. Archaea doi: 10.1155/2013/104147 |
| Subramaniam, D.*, Huang, J.*, Robinson, R., Balasubramanian, M.K.**, Tang, X.** (2013) Insight into actin organization and function in cytokinesis from analysis of fission yeast mutants Genetics. 194: 435-46 |
| Huang, J., Huang, Y., Yu, H., Padmanabhan, A., Subramanian, D., Tao, Y., Thadani, R., Tang, X., Wedlich-Soldner, R., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2012) Non-medially assembled F-actin cables incorporate into the actomyosin ring in fission yeast J Cell Biology 199: 831-847 |
| Balasubramanian, M.K., Srinivasan, R., Huang, Y., and Ng, K-H. (2012) Comparing contractile apparatus driven cytokinesis mechanisms across kingdoms Cytoskeleton 11:942-956 |
| Mithilesh Mishra, Yinyi Huang, Pragya Srivastava, Ramanujam Srinivasan, Mayalagu Sevugan, Roie Shlomovitz, Nir Gov, Madan Rao, and Mohan Balasubramanian (2012) Cylindrical Cellular Geometry Ensures Fidelity of Division Site Placement in Fission Yeast J Cell Science 125: 3850-3857 |
| Popp, D., Narita, A., Lee L.J., Goshdastider, U., Xue, B., Srinivasan, R.*, Balasubramanian, M.K., Tanaka, T., Robinson, R.C. (2012) A novel actin-like filament structure from Clostridium tetani J Biol. Chem. 287: 21121-21129. |
| Feoktistiva, A., Morrell-Folvey, J., Chen J.S., Singh, N.S., Balasubramanian, M.K., and Gould, K.L. (2012) The fission yeast SIN-kinase, Sid2, is required for SIN asymmetry and regulates the SIN-scaffold, Cdc11 Mol. Biol. Cell. 23:1636-1645 |
| Yan, H and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2012) A meiotic actin ring (MeiAR) essential for proper sporulation in S. pombe J Cell Science. 125:1429-1439 |
| N. Sadananda Singh, Nan Shao, Liping Ren, Mayalagu Sevugan, Janel McLean, Ting Gang, Andrea Bimbo, Reetu Sharma, Xie Tang, Kathy Gould, and Mohan K. Balasubramanian. (2011) The SIN inhibitory phosphatase complex (SIP) promotes Cdc11p dephosphorylation and propagates SIN-asymmetry in fission yeast Current Biology. 21:1968-1979 |
| Calvert, M., Wright, G. D., Leong F.Y., Chiam, K.H., Chen, Y., Jedd, G., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2011) Myosin II confers cell-size dependent scalability to the rate of actomyosin ring constriction. J Cell Biology. 195:799-813 |
| Srinivasan, R., Mishra, M., Leong F.Y., Chiam, K.H., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2011). The Bacillus anthracis tubulin-related protein TubZ assembles force-generating polymers in the absence of other bacterial proteins. Cytoskeleton. 68:501-511 |
| Anup Padmanabhan, Kavya Bakka, Mayalagu Sevugan, Naweed I. Naqvi, Ventris D’souza, Xie Tang, Mithilesh Mishra, and Mohan K. Balasubramanian (2011) IQGAP-related Rng2p Organizes Cortical Nodes and Ensures Position of Cell Division in Fission Yeast Current Biology 21: 467-472 |
| Xie Tang, Junqi Huang, Anup Padmanabhan, Kavya Bakka, Yun Bao1, Brenda Yuelin Tan, W. Zacheus Cande, Mohan K. Balasubramanian (2011) Marker Reconstitution Mutagenesis: a simple and efficient reverse genetic approach. Yeast 28:205-12 |
| Papadopoulou K, Chen JS, Mead E, Feoktistova A, Petit C, Agarwal M, Jamal M, Malik A, Spanos A, Sedgwick SG, Karagiannis J*, Balasubramanian MK, Gould KL, McInerny CJ. (2010). Regulation of cell cycle specific gene expression in fission yeast by the Cdc14-like phosphatase Clp1p. J. Cell Sci. 123: 4374-4381 |
| S. Ray, K. Kume, S. Gupta, W. Ge, M.K. Balasubramanian, D. Hirata, and D. McCollum (2010) The mitosis to interphase transition is coordinated by crosstalk between the SIN and MOR signaling pathways in S. pombe. J Cell Biol. 190: 793-805. |
| Oliferenko, S., Chew T., and M.K. Balasubramanian (2009) Positioning Cytokinesis Genes and Development 23: 660-674 |
| Y. Huang, H. Yan, and M.K. Balasubramanian. (2008) Assembly of normal actomyosin rings in the absence of Mid1p and cortical nodes in fission yeast. J. Cell Biol. 183: 979-988 |
| Tsui-Han Loo and Mohan Balasubramanian (2008). Schizosaccharomyces pombe Pak-related protein, Pak1p/Orb2p, phosphorylates myosin regulatory light chain to inhibit cytokinesis. J. Cell Biol. 183: 785-793 |
| Ramanujam Srinivasan, Mithilesh Mishra, Lifang Wu, Zhongchao Yin, Mohan K. Balasubramanian (2008). The Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ Assembles into Rings in Fission Yeast. Genes and Development 22: 1741-1746 |
| Hongyan Yan, Wanzhong Ge, Ting Gang Chew, Jeng Yeong Chow, Dannel McCollum, Aaron M. Neiman and Mohan K. Balasubramanian. (2008) The Meiosis-Specific Sid2p-related Protein Slk1p Regulates Forespore Membrane Assembly in Fission Yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell 19:3676-3690. |
| Chew, T.G., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2008) Nuc2p, a Subunit of the Anaphase Promoting Complex, Inhibits Septation Initiation Network Following Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast. PLoS GENETICS 4 (1): e17. |
| Ge, W., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2008) Pxl1p, a Paxillin-related Protein, Stabilizes the Actomyosin Ring during Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell 19:1680-1692. |
| Ramanujam Srinivasan, Mithilesh Mishra, Maki Murata-Hori and Mohan K. Balasubramanian. (2007) Filament Formation of the Escherichia coli Actin-Related Protein, MreB, in Fission Yeast. Current Biology 17:266-272. |
| Yinyi Huang, Ting Gang Chew, Wanzhong Ge, and Mohan K. Balasubramanian. (2007). Polarity Determinants Tea1p, Tea4p, and Pom1p Inhibit Division Septum Assembly at Cell Ends in Fission Yeast. Developmental Cell. 12:987-996. |
| Huang, Y., Tran, P.T., Oliferenko, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2007) Assembly of Microtubules and Actomyosin Rings in the Absence of Nuclei and Spindle Pole Bodies Revealed by a Novel Genetic Method. PLoS ONE 2(7): e618. |
| Wachtler, V., and M.K. Balasubramanian (2006) Yeast Lipid Rafts? An emerging view. Trends Cell Biol. 16:1-4. |
| Jin QW, Zhou M, Bimbo A, Balasubramanian MK, McCollum D (2006) A role for the septation initiation network in septum assembly revealed by genetic analysis of sid2-250 suppressors. Genetics 172: 2101-2112. |
| Rajagopalan, S., Mishra, M. and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2006) Schizosaccharomyces pombe homolog of Survivin, Bir1p, Exhibits a Novel Dynamic Behavior at the Spindle Mid-Zone. Genes to Cells 11: 815-827. |
| Volker Wachtler, Yinyi Huang, Jim Karagiannis and Mohan K. Balasubramanian (2006). Cell cycle-dependent roles for the FCH-domain protein Cdc15p in formation of the actomyosin ring in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mol. Biol. Cell 17: 3254-3266 |
| Peng, X., Murthy, K., Miller, L.D., Lin, K., Jia, Y., Konda, P., Wang, L., Wong, L., Liu E.T., Balasubramanian, M.K., and Liu, J. (2005) Identification of Cell Cycle-regulated Genes in Fission Yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell. 16: 1026-1042. |
| Karagiannis, J., Bimbo, A., Rajagopalan, S., Liu J., and Balasubramanian M.K. (2005) Lsk1p regulates the cytokinesis checkpoint and actomyosin ring stability via the SIN. Mol. Biol. Cell. 16: 358-371. |
| Mishra, M., D’souza V.M., Chang, K., Huang, Y., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2005) The Hsp90 Protein in Fission Yeast Swo1p and the UCS protein Rng3p Facilitate Myosin II Assembly and Function. Eukaryotic Cell 4: 567-576. |
| Andrea Bimbó, Yonghui Jia, Siew Lay Poh, R. Krishna Murthy Karuturi, Nicole den Elzen, Xu Peng, Liling Zheng, Matthew O’Connell, Edison T. Liu, Mohan K. Balasubramanian* and Jianhua Liu. (2005) Systematic Deletion Analysis of Fission Yeast Protein Kinases. Eukaryotic Cell 4: 799-813. |
| Andrea Bimbó, Jianhua Liu, Mohan K. Balasubramanian. (2005). Regulation of mitosis and cytokinesis by Pdk1p, a phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase in fission yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell. 16: 3162-3175. |
| Balasubramanian, M. (2005) Q and A. Current Biology 15 (11): R1-R2. |
| Wanzhong Ge, Ting Gang Chew, Volker Wachtler, Suniti N. Naqvi, and Mohan K. Balasubramanian. (2005) The novel fission yeast protein, Pal1p interacts with Hip1-related Sla2p / End4p and is involved in cellular morphogenesis. Mol. Biol. Cell 16: 4124-4138 |
| Mishra, M., J. Karagiannis, M. Sevugan, P. Singh, and M.K. Balasubramanian (2005). The 14-3-3 protein, Rad24p, modulates function of the Cdc14p family phosphatase Clp1p/Flp1p and increases the efficiency of Septation Initiation Network signaling in Fission Yeast. Current Biology 15:1376-1383 |
| Ana Belén Martín-Cuadrado, Jennifer L. Morrell, Mami Konomi, Hanbing An, Claudia Petit, Masako Osumi, Mohan Balasubramanian, Kathleen L. Gould, Francisco del Rey, and Carlos R. Vázquez de Aldana (2005) Role of septins and the exocyst complex in the function of hydrolytic enzymes responsible for fission yeast cell separation. Mol. Biol. Cell 16: 4867-4881. |
| Rajagopalan, S., Bimbo, A., M.K. Balasubramanian, and Oliferenko, S. (2004) A potential tension sensing mechanism in fission yeast spindle orientation. Current Biology 14: 69-74. |
| J. L. Morrell, G. C. Tomlin, S. Rajagopalan*, S. Venkatram., A. S. Feoktistova, J. J. Tasto, S. Mehta, J. L. Jennings, A. Link, M. K. Balasubramanian, and K. L. Gould. (2004) Sid4p-Cdc11p assemble the septation initiation network and its regulators at the S. pombe SPB Current Biology 14: 579-584. |
| Rajagopalan, S., Zheng, L., Liu, J., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2004) A N-degron approach to the study of conditional mutations in Fission Yeast. Methods 33:206-212. |
| Motegi, F., Mishra, M., Balasubramanian, M.K., and Mabuchi, I (2004) Myosin-II reorganization during mitosis is controlled temporally by its dephosphorylation and spatially by Mid1 in fission yeast. J. Cell Biol. 165: 685-695. |
| Mishra, M., Karagiannis, J., Trautmann, S., Wang, H., McCollum, D., and M.K. Balasubramanian. (2004) The physiological function of the cytokinesis checkpoint. J Cell Science 117: 3897-3910. |
| Balasubramanian, M.K., Bi, E., Glotzer, M. (2004). Comparative analysis of cytokinesis in budding yeast, fission yeast and animal cells. Curr. Biol. 14: R806-R818. |
| Wang H, Oliferenko, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2003). Cytokinesis. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 15: 82-87. |
| Wachtler, V., Rajagopalan, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2003) Sterol-Rich Plasma Membrane Domains in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. J Cell Sci. 116: 867-874. |
| Rajagopalan, S., Wachtler, V., and Balasubramanian M.K. (2003). Fission Yeast Cytokinesis: A story of rings, rafts, and walls. Trends Genet. 19:403-408. |
| Oliferenko, S., and M.K. Balasubramanian (2003) mia1/alp7 mutant is defective in spindle orientation. Nature Cell Biology 5: 766. |
| Wang, H, Tang, X., Liu, J., Balasundaram, D., Trautmann, S., McCollum, D., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2002). The multiprotein exocyst complex is essential for cell separation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mol. Biol. Cell 13: 515-529. |
| Rajagopalan, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2002). Schizosaccharomyces pombe Bir1p, a nuclear protein associated with kinetochores and the spindle mid-zone, is essential for chromosome condensation and spindle elongation. Genetics 160: 445-456. |
| Liu, J., Tang, X., Wang, H.Y., Oliferenko, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2002) F-actin and SIN dependent organization and maintenance of plasma membrane microdomains containing Cps1p in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mol. Biol. Cell 13: 989-1000. |
| Wong, K., Naqvi, N.I., Motegi, F., D’Souza, V.M., Mabuchi, I., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2002) Mitotic inheritance of a myosin II progenitor in Fission Yeast Current Biology 12: 724-729. |
| Oliferenko, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2002) Astral Microtubules monitor metaphase spindle orientation in fission yeast. Nature Cell Biology 4: 816-820. |
| D’Souza, V.M., Naqvi, N.I., Wang, H.Y., Balasubramanian, M.K. (2001) The interaction of Cdc4p, a myosin light chain, with IQ domain-containing proteins in fission yeast Cell Structure and Function 26: 583-593. |
| Oliferenko, S., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2001) Cell Cycle: The Flp side of Cdc14. Current Biology. 11:R872-874. |
| Liu, J., Wang, H., and M.K. Balasubramanian. (2000) A checkpoint that monitors cytokinesis in S. pombe. J. Cell Sci. 113: 1223-1230. |
| Wong, K., Naqvi., N.I., Iino, Y., Yamamoto, M., and M.K. Balasubramanian. (2000). Fission yeast Rng3p: an UCS-domain protein that mediates myosin II assembly during cytokinesis. J. Cell Sci. 113: 2421-2432. |
| Naqvi, N.I., Wong, K.C.Y., Tang, X., and M.K. Balasubramanian. (2000) Type II Myosin Regulatory Light Chain Relieves Auto-inhibition of Myosin Heavy Chain Function. Nature Cell Biology. 2: 855-858. |
| Balasubramanian, M.K., McCollum, D., and U. Surana. (2000). Tying the Knot: Linking cytokinesis to the nuclear cycle. J. Cell Sci. 113: 1503-1513. |
| Naqvi, N. I., K. Eng, K. L. Gould, and M. K. Balasubramanian. (1999). Evidence for F-actin-dependent and -independent mechanisms involved in assembly and stability of the medial actomyosin ring in fission yeast. EMBO J. 18:854-62. |
| Liu, J., H. Wang, D. McCollum, and M. K. Balasubramanian. (1999). Drc1p/Cps1p, a 1,3--glucan synthase subunit, is essential for division septum assembly in S. pombe. Genetics. 153: 1193-1203. |
| Balasubramanian, M. K., D. McCollum, L. Chang, K. C. Wong, N. I. Naqvi, X. He, S. Sazer, and K. L. Gould. (1998). Isolation and characterization of new fission yeast cytokinesis mutants. Genetics. 149:1265-75. |
| Eng, K., N. I. Naqvi, K. C. Wong, and M. K. Balasubramanian. (1998). Rng2p, a protein required for cytokinesis in fission yeast, is a component of the actomyosin ring and the spindle pole body. Current Biology 8:611-21. |
| Furge, K., Wong, K., Armstrong, J., Balasubramanian, M., and C.F. Albright. (1998). Byr4 and Cdc16 form a two-component GAP for the Spg1 GTPase that controls septation in fission yeast. Current Biology. 8: 947-954. |
| Balasubramanian, M. K., D. McCollum, and K. L. Gould. (1997). Cytokinesis in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Methods Enzymol. 283:494-506. |
| Balasubramanian,M.K., Feoktistova, A., McCollum,D. and Gould,K.L. (1996) Fission yeast Sop2p: a novel and evolutionarily conserved protein that interacts with Arp3p and modulates profilin function. EMBO J 15: 6426-6437. |
| McCollum, D., Feoktistova, A., Morphew, M., Balasubramanian, M., and Gould, K.L.(1996) The Schizosaccharomyces pombe actin related protein Arp3p is a component of the cortical actin cytoskeleton and interacts with profilin. EMBO J.15: 6438-6446 |
| McCollum,D.**, Balasubramanian,M.K.**, Pelcher,L.E., Hemmingsen,S. and Gould,K.L. (1995) The Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc4+ gene encodes a novel EF-hand protein essential for cytokinesis. J. Cell Biol. 130: 651-660. |
| Balasubramanian, M.K., Hirani,B.R., Burke,J.D. and Gould,K.L. (1994) The Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc3+ gene encodes a profilin essential for cytokinesis. J. Cell Biol. 125: 1289-1301. |
| Balasubramanian, M.K., Helfman, D.M. and Hemmingsen, S.M. (1992) A new tropomyosin essential for cytokinesis in the fission yeast S. pombe. Nature: 360, 84-87. |
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