2019

Hatano, Tomoyuki, Sivashanmugam, Lavanya, Suchenko, Andrejus, Hussain, Hamdi and Balasubramanian, Mohan K. (2019) Pick-ya actin : a method to purify actin isoforms with bespoke key post-translational modifications. Journal of Cell Science . doi:10.1242/jcs.241406 (In Press)

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, 2018 (11). jcb.201809089. doi:10.1083/jcb.201809089

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

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

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:doi:10.15252/embr.201846196

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

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

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

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

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). 2657. doi:10.1083/jcb.201701104

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). doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.028

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

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

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 . doi:10.7554/eLife.21383

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

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

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

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

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

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