Apaf-1: Regulation and function in cell death

R Shakeri, A Kheirollahi, J Davoodi - Biochimie, 2017 - Elsevier
Apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, is responsible for eliminating damaged or
unnecessary cells in multicellular organisms. Various types of intracellular stress trigger …

Molecular architecture of the kinetochore–microtubule interface

IM Cheeseman, A Desai - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2008 - nature.com
Segregation of the replicated genome during cell division in eukaryotes requires the
kinetochore to link centromeric DNA to spindle microtubules. The kinetochore is composed …

Mechanisms underlying spindle assembly and robustness

VA Valdez, L Neahring, S Petry… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
The microtubule-based spindle orchestrates chromosome segregation during cell division.
Following more than a century of study, many components and pathways contributing to …

Evolutionary dynamics of the kinetochore network in eukaryotes as revealed by comparative genomics

JJE van Hooff, E Tromer, LM van Wijk, B Snel… - EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
During eukaryotic cell division, the sister chromatids of duplicated chromosomes are pulled
apart by microtubules, which connect via kinetochores. The kinetochore is a multiprotein …

The structure of the nuclear pore complex

A Hoelz, EW Debler, G Blobel - Annual review of biochemistry, 2011 - annualreviews.org
In eukaryotic cells, the spatial segregation of replication and transcription in the nucleus and
translation in the cytoplasm imposes the requirement of transporting thousands of …

Orchestrating nuclear envelope disassembly and reassembly during mitosis

S Güttinger, E Laurell, U Kutay - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Cell division in eukaryotes requires extensive architectural changes of the nuclear envelope
(NE) to ensure that segregated DNA is finally enclosed in a single cell nucleus in each …

Mitotic disassembly and reassembly of nuclear pore complexes

U Kutay, R Jühlen, W Antonin - Trends in Cell Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are huge protein assemblies within the nuclear envelope
(NE) that serve as selective gates for macromolecular transport between nucleus and …

The nuclear pore complex–structure and function at a glance

G Kabachinski, TU Schwartz - Journal of cell science, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are indispensable for cell function and are at the center of
several human diseases. NPCs provide access to the nucleus and regulate the transport of …

The nuclear envelope

MW Hetzer - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The nuclear envelope (NE) is a highly regulated membrane barrier that separates the
nucleus from the cytoplasm in eukaryotic cells. It contains a large number of different …

Spatial and temporal coordination of mitosis by Ran GTPase

PR Clarke, C Zhang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract The small nuclear GTPase Ran controls the directionality of macromolecular
transport between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Ran also has important roles during …