Katanin maintains meiotic metaphase chromosome alignment and spindle structure in vivo and has multiple effects on microtubules in vitro

Microtubule Severing at Crossover Sites by Katanin Generates Ordered Cortical Microtubule Arrays in Arabidopsis

(2013) Quan Zhang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Microtubule severing by the katanin complex is activated by PPFR-1–dependent MEI-1 dephosphorylation

(2013) José-Eduardo Gomes et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Augmin-dependent microtubule nucleation at microtubule walls in the spindle

(2013) Tomoko Kamasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

PF19 encodes the p60 catalytic subunit of katanin and is required for assembly of the flagellar central apparatus in Chlamydomonas

(2012) E. E. Dymek et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Spastin's Microtubule-Binding Properties and Comparison to Katanin

(2012) Thomas Eckert et al.   PLoS One

The spindle assembly function of Caenorhabditis elegans katanin does not require microtubule-severing activity

(2011) Karen Perry McNally et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

A Survey of New Temperature-Sensitive, Embryonic-Lethal Mutations in C. elegans: 24 Alleles of Thirteen Genes

(2011) Sean M. O'Rourke et al.   PLoS One

Microtubule-severing enzymes

(2009) Antonina Roll-Mecak et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

NuMA-related LIN-5, ASPM-1, calmodulin and dynein promote meiotic spindle rotation independently of cortical LIN-5/GPR/Gα

(2009) Monique van der Voet et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Lateral microtubule bundles promote chromosome alignment during acentrosomal oocyte meiosis

(2009) Sarah M. Wignall et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Structural basis of microtubule severing by the hereditary spastic paraplegia protein spastin

(2008) Antonina Roll-Mecak et al.   NATURE