2022

Chin, Samantha M., Hatano, Tomoyuki, Sivashanmugam, Lavanya, Suchenko, Andrejus, Kashina, Anna S., Balasubramanian, Mohan K. and Jansen, Silvia (2022) N-terminal acetylation and arginylation of actin determines the architecture and assembly rate of linear and branched actin networks. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 298 (11). 102518. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102518 ISSN 0021-9258.

Thiyagarajan, Sathish, Wang, Shuyuan, Chew, Ting Gang, Huang, Junqi, Kumar, Lokesh, Balasubramanian, Mohan K. and O’Shaughnessy, Ben (2022) Myosin turnover controls actomyosin contractile instability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (43). e2211431119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2211431119 ISSN 0027-8424.

Hatano, Tomoyuki, Lim, Tzer Chyn, Billault-Chaumartin, Ingrid, Dhar, Anubhav, Gu, Ying, Massam-Wu, Teresa, Scott, William, Adishesha, Sushmitha, Chapa-y-Lazo, Bernardo, Springall, Luke, Sivashanmugam, Lavanya, Mishima, Masanori, Martin, Sophie G., Oliferenko, Snezhana, Palani, Saravanan and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2022) mNG-tagged fusion proteins and nanobodies to visualize tropomyosins in yeast and mammalian cells. Journal of Cell Science, 135 (18). jcs260288. doi:10.1242/jcs.260288 ISSN 1477-9137.

Hatano, Tomoyuki, Palani, Saravanan, Papatziamou, Dimitra, Salzer, Ralf, Souza, Diorge P., Tamarit, Daniel, Makwana, Mehul, Potter, Antonia, Haig, Alexandra, Xu, Wenjue, Townsend, David, Rochester, David, Bellini, Dom, Hussain, Hamdi M. A., Ettema, Thijs J. G., Löwe, Jan, Baum, Buzz, Robinson, Nicholas P. and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2022) Asgard archaea shed light on the evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic ubiquitin-ESCRT machinery. Nature Communications, 13 (1). 3398. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30656-2 ISSN 2041-1723.

2021

Palani, Saravanan, Ghosh, Sayantika, Ivorra-Molla, Esther, Clarke, Scott T., Suchenko, Andrejus, Balasubramanian, Mohan K. and Köster, Darius Vasco (2021) Calponin-homology domain mediated bending of membrane-associated actin filaments. eLife, 10 . e61078. doi:10.7554/eLife.61078 ISSN 2050-084X.

2020

Chew, Ting Gang, Lim, Tzer Chyn, Osaki, Yumi, Huang, Junqi, Kamnev, Anton, Osumi, Masako and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2020) Inhibition of cell membrane ingression at the division site by cell wall in fission yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 31 (21). pp. 2306-2314. doi:10.1091/mbc.E20-04-0245 ISSN 1059-1524.

Zambon, Paola, Palani, Saravanan, Sanjay Jadhav, Shekhar, Gayathri, Pananghat and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2020) Genetic suppression of defective profilin byaAttenuated myosin II reveals a potential role for myosin II in actin dynamics in vivo in fission yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 31 (19). pp. 2093-2155. doi:10.1091/mbc.E20-04-0224 ISSN 1059-1524.

Hatano, Tomoyuki, Sivashanmugam, Lavanya, Suchenko, Andrejus, Hussain, Hamdi and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2020) Pick-ya actin : a method to purify actin isoforms with bespoke key post-translational modifications. Journal of Cell Science, 133 (2). jcs241406. doi:10.1242/jcs.241406 ISSN 0021-9533.

Chapa-y-Lazo, Bernardo, Hamanaka, Motonari, Wray, Alexander, Balasubramanian, Mohan K. and Mishima, Masanori (2020) Polar relaxation by dynein-mediated removal of cortical myosin II. Journal of Cell Biology, 219 (8). e201903080. doi:10.1083/jcb.201903080 ISSN 0021-9525.

2019

Palani, Saravanan, Köster, Darius, Hatano, Tomoyuki, Kamnev, Anton, Kanamaru, Taishi, Brooker, Holly R., Hernandez-Fernaud, Juan Ramon, Jones, Alexandra M. E., Millar, Jonathan B. A., Mulvihill, Daniel P. and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2019) Phosphoregulation of tropomyosin is crucial for actin cable turnover and division site placement. Journal of Cell Biology, 218 (11). pp. 3548-3559. doi:10.1083/jcb.201809089 ISSN 0021-9525.

Syed, Junetha, Palani, Saravanan, Clarke, Scott T., Asad, Zainab, Bottrill, Andrew R., Jones, Alexandra M.E., Sampath, Karuna and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2019) Expanding the zebrafish genetic code through site-specific introduction of azido-lysine, bicyclononyne-lysine, and diazirine-lysine. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20 (10). 2577. doi:10.3390/ijms20102577 ISSN 1422-0067.

Cheffings, Thomas H., Burroughs, Nigel John and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2019) Actin turnover ensures uniform tension distribution during cytokinetic actomyosin ring contraction. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 30 (8). pp. 933-1049. doi:10.1091/mbc.E18-08-0511 ISSN 1059-1524.

2018

Meadows, John C., Messin, Liam J., Kamnev, Anton, Lancaster, Theresa C., Balasubramanian, Mohan K., Cross, Robert A. and Millar, Jonathan BA (2018) Opposing kinesin complexes queue at plus tips to ensure microtubule catastrophe at cell ends. EMBO reports, 19 (11). e46196. doi:10.15252/embr.201846196 ISSN 1469-221X.

Hatano, Tomoyuki, Alioto, Salvatore, Roscioli, Emanuele, Palani, Saravanan, Clarke, Scott T., Kamnev, Anton, Hernandez Fernaud, Juan Ramon, Sivashanmugam, Lavanya, Chapa y Lazo, Bernardo, Jones, Alexandra M., Robinson, Robert C., Sampath, Karuna, Mishima, Masanori, McAinsh, Andrew D., Goode, Bruce L. and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2018) Rapid production of pure recombinant actin isoforms in Pichia pastoris. Journal of Cell Science, 131 (8). jcs213827. doi:10.1242/jcs.213827 ISSN 1477-9137.

Lim, Tzer Chyn, Hatano, Tomoyuki, Kamnev, Anton, Balasubramanian, Mohan K. and Chew, Ting Gang (2018) Equatorial assembly of the cell-division actomyosin ring in the absence of cytokinetic spatial cues. Current Biology, 28 (6). pp. 955-962. e3. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.088 ISSN 1879-0445.

Palani, Saravanan, Srinivasan, Rajagopalan, Zambon, Paola, Kamnev, Anton, Gayathri, Pananghat and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2018) Steric hindrance in the upper 50 kDa domain of the motor Myo2p leads to cytokinesis defects in fission yeast. Journal of Cell Science, 131 (1). jcs205625. doi:10.1242/jcs.205625 ISSN 1477-9137.

2017

Chiou, Jian-geng, Balasubramanian, Mohan K. and Lew, Daniel J. (2017) Cell polarity in yeast. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 33 (1). pp. 77-101. doi:10.1146/annurev-cellbio-100616-060856 ISSN 1081-0706.

Chew, Ting Gang, Huang, Junqi, Palani, Saravanan, Sommese, Ruth, Kamnev, Anton, Hatano, Tomoyuki, Gu, Ying, Oliferenko, Snezhana, Sivaramakrishnan, Sivaraj and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2017) Actin turnover maintains actin filament homeostasis during cytokinetic ring contraction. The Journal of Cell Biology, 216 (9). pp. 2657-2667. doi:10.1083/jcb.201701104 ISSN 1540-8140.

Palani, S., Chew, Ting Gang, Ramanujam, Srinivasan, Kamnev, Anton, Harne, Shrikant, Chapa y Lazo, Bernardo, Hogg, Rebecca, Sevugan, Mayalagu, Mishra, Mithilesh, Gayathri, Pananghat and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2017) Motor activity dependent and independent functions for Myosin II in cytokinesis contribute to actomyosin ring assembly and contraction in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Current Biology, 27 (5). pp. 751-757. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.028 ISSN 0960-9822.

Zambon, Paola, Palani, S., Kamnev, Anton and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2017) Myo2p is the major motor involved in actomyosin ring contraction in fission yeast. Current Biology, 27 (3). R99-R100. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.024 ISSN 0960-9822.

2016

Sethi, Kriti, Palani, Saravanan, Cortés, Juan C G, Sato, Mamiko, Sevugan, Mayalagu, Ramos, Mariona, Vijaykumar, Shruthi, Osumi, Masako, Naqvi, Naweed I, Ribas, Juan Carlos and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2016) A new membrane protein Sbg1 links the contractile ring apparatus and septum synthesis machinery in fission yeast. PLoS Genetics, 12 (10). e1006383. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006383 ISSN 1553-7390.

Huang, Junqi, Chew, Ting Gang, Gu, Ying, Palani, Saravanan, Kamnev, Anton, Martin, Douglas S., Carter, Nicholas J., Cross, R. A., Oliferenko, Snezhana and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2016) Curvature-induced expulsion of actomyosin bundles during cytokinetic ring contraction. eLife, 5 . e21383. doi:10.7554/eLife.21383 ISSN 2050-084X.

Cheffings, Thomas H., Burroughs, Nigel John and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2016) Actomyosin ring formation and tension generation in eukaryotic cytokinesis. Current Biology, 26 (15). R719-R737. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.071 ISSN 0960-9822.

Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2016) Exploring the diversity of cytokinesis. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 53 . doi:10.1016/j.semcdb.2016.04.003

Huang, Junqi, Mishra, Mithilesh, Palani, Saravanan, Chew, Ting Gang and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2016) Isolation of Cytokinetic actomyosin rings from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. In: Yeast Cytokinesis : Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1369 . Springer New York, pp. 125-136. ISBN 9781493931446

Jiang, Shimin, Narita, Akihiro, Popp, David, Ghoshdastider, Umesh, Lee, Lin Jie, Srinivasan, Ramanujam, Balasubramanian, Mohan K., Oda, Toshiro, Koh, Fujiet, Larsson, Mårten and Robinson, Robert C. (2016) Novel actin filaments from Bacillus thuringiensisform nanotubules for plasmid DNA segregation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (9). E1200-E1205. doi:10.1073/pnas.1600129113 ISSN 0027-8424.

2015

Shao, Nan, Singh, N. Sadanands, Slade, Susan E., Jones, Alexandra M. and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2015) Site specific genetic incorporation of azidophenylalanine in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Scientific Reports, 5 . pp. 1-9. 17196. doi:10.1038/srep17196 ISSN 2045-2322.

2014

Tao, Evelyn Yaqiong, Calvert, Meredith and Balasubramanian, M. J. (2014) Rewiring Mid1p-independent medial division in fission yeast. Current Biology, Volume 24 (Number 18). pp. 2181-2188. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.074 ISSN 0960-9822.

Srinivasan, Rajagopalan and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2014) Bacteria spring a surprise. eLife, Volume 3 . Article number e03435. doi:10.7554/eLife.03435 ISSN 2050-084X.

Mishra, Mithilesh, Huang, Junqi and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2014) The yeast actin cytoskeleton. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 38 (Number 2). pp. 213-227. doi:10.1111/1574-6976.12064 ISSN 0168-6445.