Publications: Aaron Straight
Canman JC; Cameron LA.; Maddox PS; Straight A.; Tirnauer JS; Mitchison TJ; Fang G; Kapoor TM; and Salmon ED. (2003). Determining the position of the cell division plane. Nature 424, 1074-1078.
Maddox P; Straight A; Coughlin P; Mitchison TJ; and Salmon ED. (2003). Direct observation of microtubule dynamics at kinetochores in Xenopus extract spindles: implications for spindle mechanics. J Cell Biol 162, 377-382
Xu J; Wang F; Van Keymeulen A; Herzmark P; Straight A; Kelly K; Takuwa Y; Sugimoto N; Mitchison T; and Bourne HR. (2003). Divergent signals and cytoskeletal assemblies regulate self-organizing polarity in neutrophils. Cell 114, 201-21.
Straight AF; Cheung A; Limouze J; Chen I; Westwood NJ; Sellers JR; and Mitchison TJ. (2003). Dissecting temporal and spatial control of cytokinesis with a myosin II Inhibitor. Science 299, 1743-1747.
Kinoshita M; Field CM; Coughlin ML; Straight AF; and Mitchison TJ (2002). Self- and actin-templated assembly of Mammalian septins. Dev Cell 3, 791-802.
Canman JC; Sharma N; Straight A; Shannon KB; Fang G; and Salmon ED. (2002). Anaphase onset does not require the microtubule-dependent depletion of kinetochore and centromere-binding proteins. J Cell Sci 115, 3787-3795.
Cheung A; Danzig, J; Goldman YM; Mitchison TJ; Straight AF. A small-molecule inhibitor of skeletal muscle myosin II. Nat Cell Biol. 2002 Jan, 4(1):83-8.
Straight AF; Field CM. Microtubules, Membranes and Cytokinesis. Current Biology, 2000 Oct 1, 10(20):R760-70.
Straight AF; Shou W; Dowd GJ; Turck CW; Deshaies RJ; Johnson AD; Moazed D. Net1, a Sir2-associated nucleolar protein required for rDNA silencing and nucleolar integrity. Cell, 1999 Apr 16, 97(2):245-56.
Nabeshima K; Nakagawa T; Straight AF; Murray A; Chikashige Y; Yamashita YM; Hiraoka Y; Yanagida M. Dynamics of centromeres during metaphase-anaphase transition in fission yeast: Dis1 is implicated in force balance in metaphase bipolar spindle. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 1998 Nov, 9(11):3211-25.
Straight AF; Sedat JW; Murray AW. Time-lapse microscopy reveals unique roles for kinesins during anaphase in budding yeast. Journal of Cell Biology, 1998 Nov 2, 143(3):687-94.
Belmont AS; Straight AF. In vivo visualization of chromosomes using lac operator-repressor binding. Trends in Cell Biology, 1998 Mar, 8(3):121-4.
Marshall WF; Straight A; Marko JF; Swedlow J; Dernburg A; Belmont A; Murray AW; Agard DA; Sedat JW. Interphase chromosomes undergo constrained diffusional motion in living cells. Current Biology, 1997 Dec 1, 7(12):930-9.
Straight AF. Cell cycle: checkpoint proteins and kinetochores. Current Biology, 1997 Oct 1, 7(10):R613-6.
Gordon GS; Sitnikov D; Webb CD; Teleman A; Straight A; Losick R; Murray AW; Wright A. Chromosome and low copy plasmid segregation in E. coli: visual evidence for distinct mechanisms. Cell, 1997 Sep 19, 90(6):1113-21.
Straight AF; Marshall WF; Sedat JW; Murray AW. Mitosis in living budding yeast: anaphase A but no metaphase plate. Science, 1997 Jul 25, 277(5325):574-8.
Nunnari J; Marshall WF; Straight A; Murray A; Sedat JW; Walter P. Mitochondrial transmission during mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is determined by mitochondrial fusion and fission and the intramitochondrial segregation of mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 1997 Jul, 8(7):1233-42.
Webb CD; Teleman A; Gordon S; Straight A; Belmont A; Lin DC; Grossman AD; Wright A; Losick R. Bipolar localization of the replication origin regions of chromosomes in vegetative and sporulating cells of B. subtilis. Cell, 1997 Mar 7, 88(5):667-74.
Straight AF; Murray AW. The spindle assembly checkpoint in budding yeast. Methods in Enzymology, 1997, 283:425-40.
Straight AF; Belmont AS; Robinett CC; Murray AW. GFP tagging of budding yeast chromosomes reveals that protein-protein interactions can mediate sister chromatid cohesion. Current Biology, 1996 Dec 1, 6(12):1599-608.
Minshull J; Straight A; Rudner AD; Dernburg AF; Belmont A; Murray AW. Protein phosphatase 2A regulates MPF activity and sister chromatid cohesion in budding yeast. Current Biology, 1996 Dec 1, 6(12):1609-20.
Robinett CC; Straight A; Li G; Willhelm C; Sudlow G; Murray A; Belmont AS. In vivo localization of DNA sequences and visualization of large-scale chromatin organization using lac operator/repressor recognition. Journal of Cell Biology, 1996 Dec, 135(6 Pt 2):1685-700.