Leaving no-one behind: how CENP-E facilitates chromosome alignment

B Craske, JPI Welburn - Essays in biochemistry, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Chromosome alignment and biorientation is essential for mitotic progression and genomic
stability. Most chromosomes align at the spindle equator in a motor-independent manner …

Mechanisms of kinesin‐7 CENP‐E in kinetochore–microtubule capture and chromosome alignment during cell division

KW Yu, N Zhong, Y Xiao, ZY She - Biology of the Cell, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Chromosome congression is essential for faithful chromosome segregation and genomic
stability in cell division. Centromere‐associated protein E (CENP‐E), a plus‐end‐directed …

CLASP2 recognizes tubulins exposed at the microtubule plus-end in a nucleotide state–sensitive manner

W Luo, V Demidov, Q Shen, H Girão, M Chakraborty… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
CLASPs (cytoplasmic linker-associated proteins) are ubiquitous stabilizers of microtubule
dynamics, but their molecular targets at the microtubule plus-end are not understood. Using …

Intracellular cargo transport by single-headed kinesin motors

KI Schimert, BG Budaitis… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Kinesin motor proteins that drive intracellular transport share an overall architecture of two
motor domain-containing subunits that dimerize through a coiled-coil stalk. Dimerization …

Microtubule end conversion mediated by motors and diffusing proteins with no intrinsic microtubule end-binding activity

M Chakraborty, EV Tarasovetc, AV Zaytsev… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accurate chromosome segregation relies on microtubule end conversion, the ill-understood
ability of kinetochores to transit from lateral microtubule attachment to durable association …

Dynamics of cooperative transport by multiple kinesin motors and diffusing microtubule-associated proteins

Y Wang, YR Liu, PY Wang, P Xie - … in Theoretical Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In eukaryote cells, cargos are often transported cooperatively by kinesin motors and
nonmotor microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). The prior in vitro experimental data …

Determinant factors for residence time of kinesin motors at microtubule ends

P Xie - Journal of Biological Physics, 2023 - Springer
Kinesins constitute a superfamily of microtubule (MT)-based motor proteins, which can
perform diverse biological functions in cells such as transporting vesicle, regulating MT …

Modeling study of the dynamics of kinesin-14 molecular motors

P Xie - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Kinesin-14s constitute a subfamily of the large superfamily of adenosine triphosphate-
dependent microtubule-based motor proteins. Kinesin-14s have the motor domain at the C …

Reconstitution of an active human CENP-E motor

B Craske, T Legal, JPI Welburn - Open biology, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
CENP-E is a large kinesin motor protein which plays pivotal roles in mitosis by facilitating
chromosome capture and alignment, and promoting microtubule flux in the spindle. So far, it …

Kinesin-7 CENP-E mediates chromosome alignment and spindle assembly checkpoint in meiosis I

JL Zhang, MF Xu, J Chen, YL Wei, ZY She - Chromosoma, 2024 - Springer
In eukaryotes, meiosis is the genetic basis for sexual reproduction, which is important for
chromosome stability and species evolution. The defects in meiosis usually lead to …