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ArticleNature2005

Stabilization of microtubule dynamics at anaphase onset promotes chromosome segregation.

Toru Higuchi, Frank Uhlmann

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Article in Nature, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers.

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101citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

101 citing papers in PubMed, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Determination of Anaphase Duration by Time-Lapse Microscopy in Budding Yeast.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  9. Anaphase B: Long-standing models meet new concepts.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2021
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  13. TPX2 Promotes Metastasis and Serves as a Marker of Poor Prognosis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020
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  14. Hog1 activation delays mitotic exit via phosphorylation of Net1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  15. The Multiple Roles of the Cdc14 Phosphatase in Cell Cycle Control.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Toru HiguchiChromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK.
Frank Uhlmann
Cancer Research UK · GBThe Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK A3592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microtubules of the mitotic spindle form the structural basis for chromosome segregation. In metaphase, microtubules show high dynamic instability, which is thought to aid the 'search and capture' of chromosomes for bipolar alignment on the spindle. Microtubules suddenly become more stable at the onset of anaphase, but how this change in microtubule behaviour is regulated and how important it is for the ensuing chromosome segregation are unknown. Here we show that in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, activation of the phosphatase Cdc14 at anaphase onset is both necessary and sufficient for silencing microtubule dynamics. Cdc14 is activated by separase, the protease that triggers sister chromatid separation, linking the onset of anaphase to microtubule stabilization. If sister chromatids separate in the absence of Cdc14 activity, microtubules maintain high dynamic instability; this correlates with defects in both the movement of chromosomes to the spindle poles (anaphase A) and the elongation of the anaphase spindle (anaphase B). Cdc14 promotes localization of microtubule-stabilizing proteins to the anaphase spindle, and dephosphorylation of the kinetochore component Ask1 contributes to both the silencing of microtubule turnover and successful anaphase A.

Indexed as

AnaphaseCell Cycle ProteinsChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneChromosome SegregationChromosomes, FungalCohesinsEndopeptidasesEnzyme ActivationFungal ProteinsMicrotubulesMitosisNuclear ProteinsPhosphorylationProtein Tyrosine PhosphatasesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsCDC14 protein, S cerevisiaeCell Cycle ProteinsChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneCohesinsEndopeptidasesESP1 protein, S cerevisiaeFungal ProteinsNuclear ProteinsProtein Tyrosine PhosphatasesSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSeparaseTEV protease

Identifiers

PMID15650742
PMCPMC2586334
OpenAlexW2044750332

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