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Meadows, J.C and Millar, J.B.A. (2017)
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Sarkar, S., Ryan, E.L. and Royle, S.J. (2017)
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Siddiqui, N. and Straube, A. (2017)
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Collier, S., Paschke, P., Kay, R.R. and Bretschneider, T. (2017)
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Chew, T.G., Huang, J., Palani, S., Sommese, R., Kamnev, A., Hatano, T., Gu, Y., Oliferenko, S., Sivaramakrishnan, S. and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2017)
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Nixon*, F.M., Honnor*, T.R., Clarke, N.I., Starling, G.P., Beckett, A.J., Johansen, A.M., Brettschneider, J.A., Prior, I.A. and Royle, S.J. (2017)
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Auckland, P., Clarke, N.I., Royle, S.J. and McAinsh, A.D. (2017)
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Lutton, E.J., Lammers, W.J., James, S., van den Berg, H.A., Blanks, A.M. (2017)
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Palani, S., Chew, T.G., Ramanujam, S., Kamnev, A., Harne, S., Chapa-Y-Lazo, B., Hogg, R., Sevugan, M., Mishra, M., Gayathri, P., and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2017)
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Identification of a Sgo2-Dependent but Mad2-Independent Pathway Controlling Anaphase Onset in Fission Yeast
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Mishima, M. (2016)
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Mora-Santos MD, Hervas-Aguilar A, Sewart K, Lancaster TC, Meadows JC, Millar JB (2016)
Bub3-Bub1 Binding to Spc7/KNL1 Toggles the Spindle Checkpoint Switch by Licensing the Interaction of Bub1 with Mad1-Mad2
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Mishan Britto, Adeline Goulet, Syeda Rizvi, Ottilie von Loeffelholz, Carolyn A. Moores, and Robert A. Cross (2016)
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Junqi Huang, Ting Gang Chew, Ying Gu, Saravanan Palani, Anton Kamnev, Douglas S. Martin, Nicholas J. Carter, Robert A. Cross, Snezhana Oliferenko and Mohan K Balasubramanian (2016)
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Chris A. Smith, Andrew D. McAinsh and Nigel J. Burroughs (2016)
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Thomas H. Cheffings, Nigel J. Burroughs and Mohan K. Balasubramanian correspondence (2016)
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Ulrike Theisen and Anne Straube (2016)
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Robert A. Cross (2016)
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Biopolymers DOI: 10.1002/bip.22862
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Hauke Drechsler and Andrew D. McAinsh (2016)
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Mar 11
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Jonathan W. Armond, Elina Vladimirou, Andrew D. McAinsh, and Nigel J. Burroughs (2016)
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Bioinformatics First published online: February 15
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Frauke Hussmann, Douglas R. Drummond, Daniel Peet, Douglas S. Martin & Robert A. Cross (2016)
Alp7/TACC-Alp14/TOG generates long-lived, fast-growing MTs by an unconventional mechanism
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Joanna Andrecka, Jaime Ortega Arroyo, Katie Lewis, Robert A. Cross, and Philipp Kukura (2016)
Label-free Imaging of Microtubules with Sub-nm Precision Using Interferometric Scattering Microscopy
Biophysical Journal 110 214-217
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Davies, T., Kodera, N., Kaminski Schierle, G. S., Rees, E., Erdelyi, M., Kaminski, C. F., Ando, T., Mishima, M. (2015)
CYK4 promotes antiparallel microtubule bundling by optimizing MKLP1 neck conformation
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Lee, K.-Y., Esmaeili, B., Zealley, B., Mishima, M. (2015)
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Mechanisms of action of Eg5 inhibitors
in Kinesins and Cancer ed. Frank Kozielski Springer, 2015 ISBN 978-94-017-9732-0 (ebook)
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Patel J, Tan SL, Hartshorne GM, McAinsh AD. (2015)
Unique geometry of sister kinetochores in human oocytes during meiosis I may explain maternal age-associated increases in chromosomal abnormalities.
Biol Open. Dec 30. pii: bio.016394. doi: 10.1242/bio.016394. [Epub ahead of print]
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Silio V, **McAinsh AD, **Millar JB. (2015)
KNL1-Bubs and RZZ Provide Two Separable Pathways for Checkpoint Activation at Human Kinetochores.
Developmental Cell. Dec 7;35(5):600-13.
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Armond JW, Harry EF, McAinsh AD, Burroughs NJ. (2015)
Inferring the Forces Controlling Metaphase Kinetochore Oscillations by Reverse Engineering System Dynamics.
PLoS Computational Biology Nov 30;11(11):e1004607.
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**Burroughs, N.J., Harry, E.F. and **McAinsh, A.D. (2015)
Super-resolution kinetochore tracking reveals the mechanisms of human sister kinetochore directional switching
eLife 2015;10.7554/eLife.09500
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Straube, A. (2015)
Microtubules and Microtubule-Associated Proteins (MAPs).
Encyclopedia of Cell Biology, Volume 2: Organizational Cell Biology, 2016, Pages 539-547
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Auckland, P. and McAinsh, A.D. (2015)
Building an integrated model of chromosome congression.
Journal of Cell Science, 128: 3363-74
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Nixon, F.M., Gutiérrez-Caballero, C., Hood, F.E., Booth, D.G., Prior, I.A. & Royle, S.J. (2015)
The mesh is a network of microtubule connectors that stabilizes individual kinetochore fibers of the mitotic spindle.
eLife, 4: e07635. doi: 10.7554/eLife.07635
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Lee, K.Y., Esmaeili, B., Zealley, B. & Mishima, M. (2015)
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Nature Communications, 6: 7290. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8290
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Quach, H.N., Tao, S., Vrljicak, P., Joshi, A., Ruan, H., Sukumaran, R., Varshney, G.K., LaFave, M.C., Ds Screen Team, Burgess, S.M., Winkler, C., Emelyanov, A., Parinov, S., & Sampath, K. (2014)
A Multifunctional Mutagenesis System for Analysis of Gene Function in Zebrafish.
G3 (Bethesda), 5: 1283-99.
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Lobo, D.P. ,Wemyss, A.M., Smith, D.J., Straube, A., Betteridge, K.B., Salmon, A.H.J., Foster, R.R., Elhegni, H.E., Satchell, S.C., Little, H.A., Pacheco-Gomez, R., Simmons, M.J., Hicks, M.R., Bates, D.O., Rodger, A., Dafforn, T.R., & Arkill, K.P. (2015)
Direct detection and measurement of wall shear stress using a filamentous bio-nanoparticle.
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Nahorski, M.S., Al-Gazali, L., Hertecant, J., Owen, D.J., Borner, G.H.H., Chen, Y., Benn, C.L., Carvalho, O.P., Shaikh, S.S., Phelan, A., Robinson, M.S., Royle, S.J. & Woods, C.G. (2015)
A novel disorder reveals clathrin heavy chain-22 is essential for human pain and touch development.
Brain, doi: 10.1093/brain/awv149
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O'Regan, L., Sampson, J., Richards, M.W., Knebel, A., Roth, D., Hood, F.E., Straube, A., Royle, S.J., Bayliss, R. & Fry, A.M. (2015)
Hsp72 is targeted to the mitotic spindle by Nek6 to promote K-fiber assembly and mitotic progression.
The Journal of Cell Biology, 209: 349-358. doi:10.1083/jcb.201409151
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Davies, T., Kodera, N., Kaminski Schierle, G.S., Rees, E., Erdelyi, M., Kaminski, C.F., Ando, T. & Mishima, M. (2015)
CYK4 Promotes Antiparallel Microtubule Bundling by Optimizing MKLP1 Neck Conformation.
PLoS Biology, 13: e1002121. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002121
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Meadows, J.C. & Millar, J.B. (2015)
Sharpening the anaphase switch.
Biochemical Society Transactions, 43: 19-22.
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Armond J.W.*, Vladimirou E.*, Erent M., McAinsh A.D.** & Burroughs N.J.** (2015)
Probing microtubule polymerisation state at single kinetochores during metaphase chromosome motion.
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Mogessie, B., Roth, D., Rahil, Z. and Straube, A. (2015)
A novel isoform of MAP4 organises the paraxial microtubule array required for muscle cell differentiation
eLife, 4: e05697. doi:10.7554/eLife.05697.
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Wood, L.A. & Royle, S.J. (2015)
Zero Tolerance: Amphipathic Helices in Endocytosis
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Richards, M.W., O'Regan, L., Roth, D., Montgomery, J.M., Straube, A., Fry, A.M. and Bayliss, R. (2015)
Microtubule association of EML proteins and the EML4-ALK variant 3 oncoprotein require an N-terminal trimerization domain
Biochemical Journal, 467: 529-536. doi:10.1042/BJ20150039
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Gutiérrez-Caballero, C., Burgess, S.G., Bayliss, R. & Royle, S.J. (2015)
TACC3–ch-TOG track the growing tips of microtubules independently of clathrin and Aurora-A phosphorylation
Biology Open, 4: 170-9.
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Bachmann, A. and Straube, A. (2015)
Kinesins in cell migration
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Royle, S.J. (2015)
Super-duper resolution imaging of mitotic microtubules
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 16: 67.
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*Bancroft, J., *Auckland, P., Samora, C.P. and McAinsh A.D. (2015)
Chromosome congression is promoted by CENP-Q- and CENP-E-dependent pathways
Journal of Cell Science, 128, 171-184. doi:10.1242/jcs.163659
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Srinivasan, R. & Balasubramanian, M.K.(2014)
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Tao, E.Y., Calvert, M. & Balasubramanian, M.K.(2014)
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McAinsh A.D. (2014)
How Kinetochores CCAN resist force
Developmental cell 30 (6), 637-638
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Efimova, N., Grimaldi, A., Bachmann, A., Frye, K., Zhu, X., Feoktistov, A., Straube, A. and Kaverina, I. (2014)
Podosome-regulating kinesin KIF1C translocates to the cell periphery in a CLASP-dependent manner.
Journal of Cell Science 127: 5179-5188. doi:10.1242/jcs.149633
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Messin, L.J. & Millar, J.B. (2014)
Role and regulation of kinesin-8 motors through the cell cycle.
Systems and Synthetic Biology, 8: 205-13.
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Grimaldi, A.D., Maki, T., Fitton, B.P., Roth, D., Yampolsky, D., Davidson, M.W., Svitkina, T., Straube, A., Hayashi, I. and Kaverina, I. (2014)
CLASPs are required for proper microtubule localization of end-binding proteins.
Developmental Cell, 30, 343-352.
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López-Murcia, F.J., Royle, S.J. & Llobet, A. (2014)
Presynaptic clathrin levels are a limiting factor for synaptic transmission
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Willox, A.K., Sahraoui, Y.M.E. & Royle, S.J. (2014)
Non-specificity of Pitstop 2 in clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
Biology Open 3: 326-31. doi: 10.1242/bio.20147955 bioRxiv doi:10.1101/002675
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Cross RA and McAinsh AD (2014)
Prime movers: the mechanochemistry of mitotic kinesins.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 15:257-271
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Drechsler, H., McHugh, T., Singleton, M.R., Carter, N.J. and McAinsh, A.D. (2014)
The kinesin-12 Kif15 is a processive track-switching tetramer
eLife 3: e01724; PMID: 24668168
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Vazquez-Novelle M. D., Sansregret, L., Dick, A., Smith, C. A., McAinsh, A. D., Gerlich, D. W. and Petronczki, M. (2014)
Cdk1 Inactivation Terminates Mitotic Checkpoint Surveillance and Stabilizes Kinetochore Attachments in Anaphase
Current Biology 24: 1-8 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.034
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Kaur, S., Fielding, A.B., Gassner, G., Carter, N. J. & Royle, S.J. (2014)
An unmet actin requirement explains the mitotic inhibition of clathrin-mediated endocytosis
eLife 3: e00829 doi: 10.7554/eLife.00829
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Katsuki, M., Drummond, D.R. & Cross, R.A. (2014)
Ectopic A-lattice seams destabilise microtubules
Nature Communications, 5: 3094 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4094
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Wolman, A.J.M., Sanchez-Cano, C., Carstairs, H.M.J., Cross, R.A. & Turberfield, A.J. (2014)
Transport and self-organization across different length scales powered by motor proteins and programmed by DNA
Nature Nanotechnology, 9:44-47 doi: 10.1038/nnano.2013.230
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Vladimirou, E.*, Mchedlishvili, N.*, Gasic, I.*, Armond, J.W., Samora, C.P., Meraldi, P**. and McAinsh, A.D.** (2013)
Nonautonomous movement of chromosomes in mitosis.
Developmental Cell, 27: 60-71
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Jefferyes, S.D.R., Epstein, D.B.A., Straube, A., Rajpoot, N.M. (2013)
A novel framework for exploratory analysis of highly variable morphology of migrating epithelial cells.
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2013 Jul;2013:3463-3466, doi:10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610287
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Royle, S.J. (2013)
Protein adaptation: mitotic functions for membrane trafficking proteins.
Nature Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 14: 592-9. doi:10.1038/nrm3641
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Hood, F.E., Williams, S.J., Burgess, S.G., Richards, M.W., Roth, D., Straube, A., Pfuhl, M., Bayliss, R. & Royle, S.J. (2013)
Coordination of adjacent domains mediates TACC3–ch-TOG–clathrin assembly and mitotic spindle binding.
J. Cell Biol. 202:463-78
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Esperanto for histones: CENP-A, not CenH3, is the centromeric histone H3 variant.
Chromosome Research 21:101-106
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Mora-Santos, M. & Millar, J.B. (2013)
Checkpoint proteins come under scrutiny.
eLife, 2: e01494.
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Cheeseman, L.P., Harry, E.F., McAinsh, A.D., Prior, I.A. & Royle, S.J. (2013)
Specific removal of TACC3-ch-TOG-clathrin at metaphase deregulates kinetochore fiber tension.
J. Cell Sci., 126: 2102-13
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Hawkins T.L., Sept D., Mogessie B., Straube A. and Ross J.L. (2013)
Mechanical Properties of Doubly Stabilized Microtubule Filaments.
Biophysical Journal 104: 1517-1528
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Theisen U, Straube E, and Straube A. (2012)
Directional Persistence of Migrating Cells Requires Kif1C-Mediated Stabilization of Trailing Adhesions.
Developmental Cell 23:1153-1166
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Drechsler & McAinsh AD (2012)
Exotic mitotic mechanisms.
Open Biology. December 5
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Eskat A, Deng W, Hofmeister A, Rudolphi S, Emmerth S, Hellwig D, Ulbricht T, Doring V, Bancroft JM, McAinsh AD, Cardoso MC, Meraldi P, Hoischen C, Leonhardt H, Diekmann S. (2012)
Step-Wise Assembly, Maturation and Dynamic Behavior of the Human CENP-P/O/R/Q/U Kinetochore Sub-Complex.
PLOS ONE. 7:e44717
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Joseph, N., Hutterer, A., Poser, I., Mishima, M. (2012)
ARF6 GTPase protects the post-mitotic midbody from 14-3-3-mediated disintegration
EMBO J. 31:2604-14
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Erent, M., Drummond, D.R., Cross R.A (2012)
S. pombe kinesins-8 promote both nucleation and catastrophe of microtubules
PLoS ONE 7, e30738 - e30738
[link to pdf]

Kaseda, K., McAinsh, A.D. & Cross, R.A. (2012)
Dual pathway spindle assembly increases both the speed and the fidelity of mitosis
Biology Open, Nov 2. doi: 10.1242/​bio.2011012
[link to pdf] [Biology Open website]

McAinsh, A.D. & Straube, A. (2011)
Spindle Centricity
Cell Cycle, Advance Online Publication December 1
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Hellwig, D., Emmerth, S., Ulbricht, t., Doring, V., Hoischen, C., Martin, R., Samora. C, McAinsh, A.D., Carroll, C.W., Straight, A.F., Meraldi, P., and Diekmann, S. (2011)
Dynamics of CENP‐N kinetochore binding during the cell cycle
J Cell Sci , Advance Online Publication November 18
[link to pdf] [pubmed abstract]

Grant, B.J., Gheorghe, D., Zheng,W., Alonso, M., Huber, G., Dlugosz,M., McCammon, J.A. & Cross, R.A. (2011)
Electrostatically biased binding of kinesin to microtubules
PLOS Biology 9(11) e1001207. Epub 2011 Nov 29
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McAinsh, A.D. & Meraldi, P.. (2011)
The CCAN complex: Linking centromere specification to control of kinetochore-microtubule dynamics
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Oct 19. [Epub ahead of print]
[link to pdf] [pubmed abstract]

Cross, R.A., McAinsh, A.D. & Straube A. (2011)
Mechanochemical Cell Biology
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Oct 7. [Epub ahead of print]
[link to pdf] [pubmed abstract]

Drummond, D.R. (2011)
Regulation of microtubule dynamics by kinesins
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Oct 5. [Epub ahead of print]
[link to pdf] [pubmed abstract]

Kaverina, I. & Straube A. (2011)
Regulation of cell migration by dynamic microtubules
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 22 968-974
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Samora, C.P.*, Mogessie, B.*, Conway, L., Ross, J.L., Straube, A.** & McAinsh A.D.** (2011)
MAP4 and CLASP1 operate as a safety mechanism to maintain a stable spindle position in mitosis.
Nature Cell Biology, 131040-1050
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Straube A. (2011)
How to measure microtubule dynamics?
Methods in Molecular Biology, 777 1-14
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Samora, C.P & McAinsh A.D. (2011)
Photoactivatable-GFP-α-Tubulin as a Tool to Study Microtubule Plus-End Turnover in Living Human Cells.
Methods in Molecular Biology, 777 223-33
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Drummond D.R., Kain S., Newcombe A., Hoey C., Katsuki M., Cross R.A. (2011)
Purification of Tubulin from the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Methods in Molecular Biology, 777 29-55
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Katsuki M., Muto E., Cross R.A. (2011)
Preparation of dual-color polarity-marked fluorescent microtubule seeds.
Methods in Molecular Biology, 777 117-26
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Vladimirou E., Harry, E., Burroughs N. & McAinsh A.D. (2011)
Springs, clutches and motors: driving forward kinetochore mechanism by modelling
Chromosome Biology, 19 409-21
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Cross RA (2010)
Kinesin-14: the roots of reversal
BMC Biology 12 8:107
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Amaro AC, Samora CP, Holtackers R, Wang E, Kingston I, Alonso M, Lampson L, McAinsh AD** and Meraldi P** (2010)
Molecular control of kinetochore-microtubule dynamics and chromosome oscillation
Nature Cell Biology, 12 319-329
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Jaqaman K*, King E*, Amaro AC*, Winter JR*, Dorn JF, Elliott, HL, Mchedlishvili N, McClelland SE, Porter IM, Posch M, Toso A, Danuser G**, McAinsh AD**, Meraldi P**, Swedlow JR** (2010)
Kinetochore alignment within the metaphase plate is regulated by centromere stiffness and microtubule depolymerases
Journal of Cell Biology, 188 665-79
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