Cytokinesis in Bloodstream Stage Trypanosoma brucei Requires a Family of Katanins and Spastin

Drosophila Katanin-60 Depolymerizes and Severs at Microtubule Defects

(2011) Juan Daniel Díaz-Valencia et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A role for katanin in plant cell division: Microtubule organization in dividing root cells of fra2 and lue1Arabidopsis thaliana mutants

(2011) Emmanuel Panteris et al.   Cytoskeleton

Endocytic membrane fusion and buckling-induced microtubule severing mediate cell abscission

(2011) J. A. Schiel et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

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

Drosophila katanin is a microtubule depolymerase that regulates cortical-microtubule plus-end interactions and cell migration

(2011) Dong Zhang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Cortical Constriction During Abscission Involves Helices of ESCRT-III-Dependent Filaments

(2011) J. Guizetti et al.   SCIENCE

Nuclear DBF-2-related Kinases Are Essential Regulators of Cytokinesis in Bloodstream StageTrypanosoma brucei

(2010) Jiangtao Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Tubulin polyglutamylation stimulates spastin-mediated microtubule severing

(2010) Benjamin Lacroix et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Hereditary spastic paraplegia proteins REEP1, spastin, and atlastin-1 coordinate microtubule interactions with the tubular ER network

(2010) Seong H. Park et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Acetylation of Microtubules Influences Their Sensitivity to Severing by Katanin in Neurons and Fibroblasts

(2010) H. Sudo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The small GTPase ARL2 is required for cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei

(2010) Helen P. Price et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Tobacco microtubule-associated protein, MAP65-1c, bundles and stabilizes microtubules

(2010) Qiutao Meng et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Identification and Characterization of an Unusual Class I Myosin Involved in Vesicle Traffic in Trypanosoma brucei

(2010) Diana Spitznagel et al.   PLoS One

The Expanded Kinesin-13 Repertoire of Trypanosomes Contains Only One Mitotic Kinesin Indicating Multiple Extra-Nuclear Roles

(2010) Bill Wickstead et al.   PLoS One

Functional Characterisation and Drug Target Validation of a Mitotic Kinesin-13 in Trypanosoma brucei

(2010) Kuan Yoow Chan et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Microtubule-severing enzymes

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

Essential Role of hIST1 in Cytokinesis

(2009) Monica Agromayor et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Microtubule-severing proteins are involved in flagellar length control and mitosis in Trypanosomatids

(2009) Magali Casanova et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Drosophila IKK-related kinase Ik2 and Katanin p60-like 1 regulate dendrite pruning of sensory neuron during metamorphosis

(2009) H.-H. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell Morphogenesis of Trypanosoma brucei Requires the Paralogous, Differentially Expressed Calpain-related Proteins CAP5.5 and CAP5.5V

(2009) Sofia Olego-Fernandez et al.   PROTIST

The structural mechanics of cell division inTrypanosoma brucei

(2008) Sue Vaughan et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

LAPSER1/LZTS2: a pluripotent tumor suppressor linked to the inhibition of katanin-mediated microtubule severing

(2008) Haruka Sudo et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Hydroxyurea-induced synchronisation of bloodstream stage Trypanosoma brucei

(2008) Glynn R. Forsythe et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

The Microtubule-severing Proteins Spastin and Katanin Participate Differently in the Formation of Axonal Branches

(2008) Wenqian Yu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Katanin Knockdown Supports a Role for Microtubule Severing in Release of Basal Bodies before Mitosis in Chlamydomonas

(2008) M. Qasim Rasi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Identification of a Novel Chromosomal Passenger Complex and Its Unique Localization during Cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei

(2008) Ziyin Li et al.   PLoS One

The Chromosomal Passenger Complex and a Mitotic Kinesin Interact with the Tousled-Like Kinase in Trypanosomes to Regulate Mitosis and Cytokinesis

(2008) Ziyin Li et al.   PLoS One

Spastin Couples Microtubule Severing to Membrane Traffic in Completion of Cytokinesis and Secretion

(2008) James W. Connell et al.   TRAFFIC

Asymmetric Cell Division as a Route to Reduction in Cell Length and Change in Cell Morphology in Trypanosomes

(2007) Reuben Sharma et al.   PROTIST

WCB is a C2 Domain Protein Defining the Plasma Membrane – Sub-Pellicular Microtubule Corset of Kinetoplastid Parasites

(2007) Andrea Baines et al.   PROTIST