Principles and dynamics of spindle assembly checkpoint signalling

AD McAinsh, GJPL Kops - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The transmission of a complete set of chromosomes to daughter cells during cell division is
vital for development and tissue homeostasis. The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) …

Boveri and beyond: Chromothripsis and genomic instability from mitotic errors

A Mazzagatti, JL Engel, P Ly - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Mitotic cell division is tightly monitored by checkpoints that safeguard the genome from
instability. Failures in accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis can cause …

[HTML][HTML] The phenotypic landscape of essential human genes

L Funk, KC Su, J Ly, D Feldman, A Singh, B Moodie… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding the basis for cellular growth, proliferation, and function requires determining
the roles of essential genes in diverse cellular processes, including visualizing their …

The four causes: the functional architecture of centromeres and kinetochores

AD McAinsh, AL Marston - Annual review of genetics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Kinetochores are molecular machines that power chromosome segregation during the
mitotic and meiotic cell divisions of all eukaryotes. Aristotle explains how we think we have …

Structure of the human outer kinetochore KMN network complex

S Yatskevich, J Yang, D Bellini, Z Zhang… - Nature structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Faithful chromosome segregation requires robust, load-bearing attachments of
chromosomes to the mitotic spindle, a function accomplished by large macromolecular …

Alternative CDC20 translational isoforms tune mitotic arrest duration

MJ Tsang, IM Cheeseman - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Mitotic defects activate the spindle-assembly checkpoint, which inhibits the anaphase-
promoting complex co-activator CDC20 to induce a prolonged cell cycle arrest,. Once errors …

Double-checking chromosome segregation

H Maiato, S Silva - Journal of Cell Biology, 2023 - rupress.org
Enduring chromosome segregation errors represent potential threats to genomic stability
due to eventual chromosome copy number alterations (aneuploidy) and formation of …

RZZ‐Spindly and CENP‐E form an integrated platform to recruit dynein to the kinetochore corona

V Cmentowski, G Ciossani, E d'Amico… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Chromosome biorientation on the mitotic spindle is prerequisite to errorless genome
inheritance. CENP‐E (kinesin‐7) and dynein–dynactin (DD), microtubule motors with …

Micronuclei from misaligned chromosomes that satisfy the spindle assembly checkpoint in cancer cells

AM Gomes, B Orr, M Novais-Cruz, F De Sousa… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Chromosome alignment to the spindle equator is a hallmark of mitosis thought to promote
chromosome segregation fidelity in metazoans. Yet chromosome alignment is only indirectly …

The TRESLIN-MTBP complex couples completion of DNA replication with S/G2 transition

G Zonderland, R Vanzo, SA Gadi, E Martín-Doncel… - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
It has been proposed that ATR kinase senses the completion of DNA replication to initiate
the S/G2 transition. In contrast to this model, we show here that the TRESLIN-MTBP complex …