The Straight Lab

1. Robinett CC; Straight A; Li G; Willhelm C; Sudlow G; Murray A; Belmont AS. (1996). In vivo localization of DNA sequences and visualization of large-scale chromatin organization using lac operator/repressor recognition. Journal of Cell Biology 135(6 Pt 2):1685-700.

2. Minshull J; Straight A; Rudner AD; Dernburg AF; Belmont A; Murray AW. (1996). Protein phosphatase 2A regulates MPF activity and sister chromatid cohesion in budding yeast. Current Biology 6(12):1609-20.

3. Straight AF; Belmont AS; Robinett CC; Murray AW. (1996). GFP tagging of budding yeast chromosomes reveals that protein-protein interactions can mediate sister chromatid cohesion. Current Biology 6(12):1599-608.

4. Webb CD; Teleman A; Gordon S; Straight A; Belmont A; Lin DC; Grossman AD; Wright A; Losick R. (1997). Bipolar localization of the replication origin regions of chromosomes in vegetative and sporulating cells of B. subtilis. Cell 88(5):667-74.

5. Nunnari J; Marshall WF; Straight A; Murray A; Sedat JW; Walter P. (1997). 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 8(7):1233-42.

6. Straight AF; Marshall WF; Sedat JW; Murray AW. (1997). Mitosis in living budding yeast: anaphase A but no metaphase plate. Science 277(5325):574-8.

7. Gordon GS; Sitnikov D; Webb CD; Teleman A; Straight A; Losick R; Murray AW; Wright A. (1997). Chromosome and low copy plasmid segregation in E. coli: visual evidence for distinct mechanisms. Cell 90(6):1113-21.

8. Marshall WF; Straight A; Marko JF; Swedlow J; Dernburg A; Belmont A; Murray AW; Agard DA; Sedat JW. (1997). Interphase chromosomes undergo constrained diffusional motion in living cells. Current Biology 7(12):930-9.

9. Straight AF; Sedat JW; Murray AW. (1998). Time-lapse microscopy reveals unique roles for kinesins during anaphase in budding yeast. Journal of Cell Biology 143(3):687-94.

10. Nabeshima K; Nakagawa T; Straight AF; Murray A; Chikashige Y; Yamashita YM; Hiraoka Y; Yanagida M. (1998). 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 9(11):3211-25.

11. Straight AF; Shou W; Dowd GJ; Turck CW; Deshaies RJ; Johnson AD; Moazed D. (1999). Net1, a Sir2-associated nucleolar protein required for rDNA silencing and nucleolar integrity. Cell 97(2):245-56.

12. Cheung A; Danzig, J; Goldman YM; Mitchison TJ; Straight AF. (2002). A small-molecule inhibitor of skeletal muscle myosin II. Nat Cell Biol. 4(1):83-8.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Ramamurthy B; Yengo CM; Straight AF; Mitchison TJ; Sweeney HL. (2004). Kinetic mechanism of blebbistatin inhibition of nonmuscle myosin IIb. Biochemistry. 43(46):14832-9.

20. Limouze J; Straight AF; Mitchison T; Sellers JR. (2004) Specificity of blebbistatin, an inhibitor of myosin II. J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 25(4-5):337-41.

21. Straight, AF; Field, CM; and Mitchison, TJ. (2005). Anillin binds nonmuscle myosin II and regulates the contractile ring. Molecular Biology of the Cell 16(1):193-201.

22. Sakamoto T; Limouze J; Combs CA; Straight AF; and Sellers, JR. (2005). Blebbistatin, a myosin II inhibitor is photoinactivated by blue light. Biochemistry 44(2):584-588.

23. Lucas-Lopez C; Patterson S; Blum T; Straight AF; Toth J; Slawin AMZ; Mitchison TJ; Sellers JR; Westwood NJ. (2005) Absolute Stereochemical Assignment and Fluorescence Tuning of the Small Molecule Tool, (-)-Blebbistatin. European Journal of Organic Chemistry 9:1736-1740.

24. Carroll CW, Straight AF. Centromere formation: from epigenetics to self-assembly. Trends Cell Biol. 2006 Feb;16(2):70-8. Epub 2006 Jan 18.

25. Carroll CW, Straight AF. Centromeric chromatin gets loaded. J Cell Biol. 2007 Mar 12;176(6):735-6.

26. Straight AF. Florescent protein applications in microscopy. Methods Cell Biol. 2007;81:93-113.

27. Brennan IM, Peters U, Kapoor TM, Straight AF. Polo-like kinase controls vertebrate spindle elongation and cytokinesis. PLoS ONE. 2007 May 2;2(5):e409.

28. Erhardt S. Mellone BG, Betts CM, Zhang W, Karpen GH, Straight AF. Genome-wide analysis reveals a cell cycle-dependent mechanism controlling centromere propagation. J Cell Biol. 2008 Dec. 1;183(5):805-18.

29. Carroll CW; Silva MC; Godek KM; Jansen LE; Straight AF. Centromere assembly requires the direct recognition of CENP-A nucleosomes by CENP-N. Nat Cell Biol. 2009 Jul;11(7):896-902.

30. Milks KJ; Moree B; Straight AF. Dissection of CENP-C-directed Centromere and Kinetochore Assembly. Mol Biol Cell. 2009 Jul 29.

31. Fuller CJ and Straight AF. Image Analysis Benchmarking Methods for High Content Screen Design. J. Microscopy. 2009 Early View (Articles online in advance of print)