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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2021

A tripartite mechanism catalyzes Mad2-Cdc20 assembly at unattached kinetochores.

Pablo Lara-Gonzalez, Taekyung Kim, Karen Oegema, Kevin Corbett, Arshad Desai

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Structure and function of the outer kinetochore.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  7. MAD2L1 supports MYC-driven liver carcinogenesis in mice and predicts poor prognosis in human hepatocarcinoma.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025
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  12. The two sides of chromosomal instability: drivers and brakes in cancer.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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  20. [Progress in the Study of Spindle Assembly Checkpoint in Lung Cancer].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Pablo Lara-GonzalezSection of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. abdesai@ucsd.edu plgonzalez@ucsd.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8863-9006
Taekyung KimSection of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1011-889X
Karen OegemaSection of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8515-7514
Kevin CorbettDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5854-2388
Arshad DesaiSection of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. abdesai@ucsd.edu plgonzalez@ucsd.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5410-1830
Ludwig Cancer Research · BE

Funding

Kinetochore Specification and FunctionR01GM074215 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DESAI, ARSHAD · 2005 to 2025
$8.2M
Molecular mechanisms of chromosome organization and recombination control by the meiotic chromosome axis.R01GM104141 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI CORBETT, KEVIN DANIEL · 2013 to 2021
$3.1M
Acquisition of an Orbitrap Elite with ETDS10OD021724 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KOMIVES, ELIZABETH A. · 2016 to 2016
$600k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM074215NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104141NIH HHS S10 OD021724
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During cell division, kinetochores couple chromosomes to spindle microtubules. To protect against chromosome gain or loss, kinetochores lacking microtubule attachment locally catalyze association of the checkpoint proteins Cdc20 and Mad2, which is the key event in the formation of a diffusible checkpoint complex that prevents mitotic exit. We elucidated the mechanism of kinetochore-catalyzed Mad2-Cdc20 assembly with a probe that specifically monitors this assembly reaction at kinetochores in living cells. We found that catalysis occurs through a tripartite mechanism that includes localized delivery of Mad2 and Cdc20 substrates and two phosphorylation-dependent interactions that geometrically constrain their positions and prime Cdc20 for interaction with Mad2. These results reveal how unattached kinetochores create a signal that ensures genome integrity during cell division.

Indexed as

Cell Cycle CheckpointsAnimalsBiocatalysisCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCdc20 ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsKinetochoresMitosisProtein Serine-Threonine Kinasesbub-1 protein, C elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCdc20 ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsFZY-1 protein, C elegansMDF-1 protein, C elegansMDF-2 protein, C elegansProtein Serine-Threonine Kinases

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PMID33384372
PMCPMC8191211
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