[HTML][HTML] The two sides of chromosomal instability: drivers and brakes in cancer

R Hosea, S Hillary, S Naqvi, S Wu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and is associated with tumor cell
malignancy. CIN triggers a chain reaction in cells leading to chromosomal abnormalities …

[HTML][HTML] Permission to pass: on the role of p53 as a gatekeeper for aneuploidy

JF Marques, GJPL Kops - Chromosome Research, 2023 - Springer
Aneuploidy—the karyotype state in which the number of chromosomes deviates from a
multiple of the haploid chromosome set—is common in cancer, where it is thought to …

Structural mechanism of outer kinetochore Dam1-Ndc80 complex assembly on microtubules

KW Muir, C Batters, T Dendooven, J Yang, Z Zhang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Kinetochores couple chromosomes to the mitotic spindle to segregate the genome during
cell division. An error correction mechanism drives the turnover of kinetochore-microtubule …

Adaptation to spindle assembly checkpoint inhibition through the selection of specific aneuploidies

MAY Adell, TC Klockner, R Höfler… - Genes & …, 2023 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Both the presence of an abnormal complement of chromosomes (aneuploidy) and an
increased frequency of chromosome missegregation (chromosomal instability) are …

DASH/Dam1 complex mutants stabilize ploidy in histone‐humanized yeast by weakening kinetochore‐microtubule attachments

MAB Haase, G Ólafsson, RL Flores… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Forcing budding yeast to chromatinize their DNA with human histones manifests an abrupt
fitness cost. We previously proposed chromosomal aneuploidy and missense mutations as …

[HTML][HTML] Practical Approaches for the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genome Modification

EI Stepchenkova, SP Zadorsky, AR Shumega… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The yeast S. cerevisiae is a unique genetic object for which a wide range of relatively
simple, inexpensive, and non-time-consuming methods have been developed that allow the …

Mechanism of outer kinetochore assembly on microtubules and its regulation by mitotic error correction

KW Muir, C Batters, T Dendooven, J Yang, Z Zhang… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Kinetochores couple chromosomes to the mitotic spindle and transduce the energy of
microtubule depolymerization to segregate the genome during cell division. Kinetochore …

The adaptive strategies of cells in the face of CIN

Z Storchová - The EMBO Journal, 2023 - embopress.org
An increased frequency of chromosome segregation errors, known as chromosomal
instability (CIN), leads to accumulation of aneuploid cells with abnormal chromosomal …

Point mutations of homologs as an adaptive solution to the gene loss

G Ma, X Zhao, X Shentu, L Zhang - Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2023 - Elsevier
Gene loss is common and influences genome evolution trajectories. Multiple adaptive
strategies to compensate for gene loss have been observed, including copy number gain of …