Publications
2024
Quantitative imaging of loop extruders rebuilding interphase genome architecture after mitosis.
bioRxiv.Sororin is an evolutionary conserved antagonist of WAPL.
Nat Commun. 15(1):47292023
Transcription shapes 3D chromatin organization by interacting with loop extrusion.
Corresponding preprint Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(11):e2210480120Testing pseudotopological and nontopological models for SMC-driven DNA loop extrusion against roadblock-traversal experiments.
Sci Rep. 13(1):8100Cohesin-mediated DNA loop extrusion resolves sister chromatids in G2 phase.
EMBO J. :e113475CTCF is a DNA-tension-dependent barrier to cohesin-mediated loop extrusion.
Corresponding preprint Nature. 616(7958):822-827How do molecular motors fold the genome?
Science. 382(6671):646-648Igh and Igk loci use different folding principles for V gene recombination due to distinct chromosomal architectures of pro-B and pre-B cells.
Nat Commun. 14(1):2316Cohesin and CTCF do not assemble TADs in Xenopus sperm and male pronuclei.
Genome Res. 33(12):2094-107Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion and sister chromatid cohesion by distinct mechanisms.
Mol Cell.2022
MCM complexes are barriers that restrict cohesin-mediated loop extrusion.
Nature.Nucleome programming is required for the foundation of totipotency in mammalian germline development.
EMBO J. :e110600Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion and sister chromatid cohesion by distinct mechanisms
bioRxiv . 2022.09.23.509019Cornelia de Lange syndrome mutations in NIPBL can impair cohesin-mediated DNA loop extrusion.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 119(18):e2201029119SMC complexes can traverse physical roadblocks bigger than their ring size.
Corresponding preprint Cell Rep. 41(3):111491Sororin is an evolutionary conserved antagonist of WAPL
bioRxiv . 2022.10.24.5135342021
Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion by a "swing and clamp" mechanism.
Cell. 184(21):5448-5464.e22Visualization of loop extrusion by DNA nanoscale tracing in single human cells
bioRxiv . 2021.04.12.439407Genome folding through loop extrusion by SMC complexes.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 22(7):445-464How DNA loop extrusion mediated by cohesin enables V(D)J recombination.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 70:75-832020
Wapl repression by Pax5 promotes V gene recombination by Igh loop extrusion.
Nature. 584(7819):142-147Ubiquitin chain-elongating enzyme UBE2S activates the RING E3 ligase APC/C for substrate priming.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 27(6):550-560Conformation of sister chromatids in the replicated human genome.
Nature. 586(7827):139-144PDS5 proteins are required for proper cohesin dynamics and participate in replication fork protection.
J Biol Chem. 295(1):146-157Wapl releases Scc1-cohesin and regulates chromosome structure and segregation in mouse oocytes.
J Cell Biol. 219(4)Quantifying the heterogeneity of macromolecular machines by mass photometry.
Nat Commun. 11(1):1772Cohesin-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms Mediate Chromosomal Contacts between Promoters and Enhancers.
Cell Rep. 32(3):107929STAG1 vulnerabilities for exploiting cohesin synthetic lethality in STAG2-deficient cancers.
Life Sci Alliance. 3(7)ESCO1 and CTCF enable formation of long chromatin loops by protecting cohesinSTAG1 from WAPL.
Elife. 92019
Topoisomerase II-Induced Chromosome Breakage and Translocation Is Determined by Chromosome Architecture and Transcriptional Activity.
Mol Cell. 75(2):252-266.e8DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin.
Science. 366(6471):1338-1345Absolute quantification of cohesin, CTCF and their regulators in human cells.
Elife. 8Werner syndrome helicase is a selective vulnerability of microsatellite instability-high tumor cells.
Elife. 8Self-organization of parS centromeres by the ParB CTP hydrolase.
Science. 366(6469):1129-1133Posing the APC/C E3 Ubiquitin Ligase to Orchestrate Cell Division.
Trends Cell Biol. 29(2):117-134Protein engineering of a ubiquitin-variant inhibitor of APC/C identifies a cryptic K48 ubiquitin chain binding site.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 116(35):17280-172892018
Experimental and computational framework for a dynamic protein atlas of human cell division.
Nature. 561(7723):411-415The replicative helicase MCM recruits cohesin acetyltransferase ESCO2 to mediate centromeric sister chromatid cohesion.
EMBO J. 37(15)Analysis of chromosomes from mouse oocytes and mammalian cultured cells by light microscopy.
Methods Cell Biol. 144:287-305Dynamics of sister chromatid resolution during cell cycle progression.
J Cell Biol. 217(6):1985-2004Expressing Multi-subunit Complexes Using biGBac.
Methods Mol Biol. 1764:329-3432017
Cohesin is positioned in mammalian genomes by transcription, CTCF and Wapl.
Nature. 544(7651):503-507A mechanism of cohesin-dependent loop extrusion organizes zygotic genome architecture.
EMBO J. 36(24):3600-3618BubR1 Promotes Bub3-Dependent APC/C Inhibition during Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Signaling.
Curr Biol. 27(19):2915-2927.e7Synthetic lethality between the cohesin subunits STAG1 and STAG2 in diverse cancer contexts.
Elife. 6Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins.
EMBO J. 36(24):3573-35992016
Dual RING E3 Architectures Regulate Multiubiquitination and Ubiquitin Chain Elongation by APC/C.
Cell. 165(6):1440-1453Rapid movement and transcriptional re-localization of human cohesin on DNA.
EMBO J. 35(24):2671-2685Topology and structure of an engineered human cohesin complex bound to Pds5B.
Nat Commun. 7:12523ARHGEF17 is an essential spindle assembly checkpoint factor that targets Mps1 to kinetochores.
J Cell Biol. 212(6):647-59Measuring APC/C-Dependent Ubiquitylation In Vitro.
Methods Mol Biol. 1342:287-303Intact Cohesion, Anaphase, and Chromosome Segregation in Human Cells Harboring Tumor-Derived Mutations in STAG2.
PLoS Genet. 12(2):e1005865Sororin actively maintains sister chromatid cohesion.
EMBO J. 35(6):635-53Mechanism of APC/CCDC20 activation by mitotic phosphorylation.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113(19):E2570-8biGBac enables rapid gene assembly for the expression of large multisubunit protein complexes.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113(19):E2564-9Cryo-EM of Mitotic Checkpoint Complex-Bound APC/C Reveals Reciprocal and Conformational Regulation of Ubiquitin Ligation.
Mol Cell. 63(4):593-6072015
RING E3 mechanism for ubiquitin ligation to a disordered substrate visualized for human anaphase-promoting complex.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112(17):5272-9ProteoPlex: stability optimization of macromolecular complexes by sparse-matrix screening of chemical space.
Nat Methods. 12(9):859-65Structure of an APC3-APC16 complex: insights into assembly of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome.
J Mol Biol. 427(8):1748-64The Deubiquitinase USP37 Regulates Chromosome Cohesion and Mitotic Progression.
Curr Biol. 25(17):2290-92014
Mechanism of polyubiquitination by human anaphase-promoting complex: RING repurposing for ubiquitin chain assembly.
Mol Cell. 56(2):246-260Characterization of a DNA exit gate in the human cohesin ring.
Science. 346(6212):968-72Cohesin's ATPase activity couples cohesin loading onto DNA with Smc3 acetylation.
Curr Biol. 24(19):2228-37SNW1 enables sister chromatid cohesion by mediating the splicing of sororin and APC2 pre-mRNAs.
EMBO J. 33(22):2643-582013
Electron microscopy structure of human APC/C(CDH1)-EMI1 reveals multimodal mechanism of E3 ligase shutdown.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 20(7):827-35Aurora B and Cdk1 mediate Wapl activation and release of acetylated cohesin from chromosomes by phosphorylating Sororin.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110(33):13404-9Wapl is an essential regulator of chromatin structure and chromosome segregation.
Nature. 501(7468):564-82012
The many functions of cohesin--different rings to rule them all?
EMBO J. 31(9):2061-3APC15 mediates CDC20 autoubiquitylation by APC/C(MCC) and disassembly of the mitotic checkpoint complex.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 19(11):1116-23The non-redundant function of cohesin acetyltransferase Esco2: some answers and new questions.
Nucleus. 3(4):330-4Cohesin acetyltransferase Esco2 is a cell viability factor and is required for cohesion in pericentric heterochromatin.
EMBO J. 31(1):71-822011
Spatial exclusivity combined with positive and negative selection of phosphorylation motifs is the basis for context-dependent mitotic signaling.
Sci Signal. 4(179):ra42Substrate binding on the APC/C occurs between the coactivator Cdh1 and the processivity factor Doc1.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 18(1):6-13Quantitative phospho-proteomics to investigate the polo-like kinase 1-dependent phospho-proteome.
Mol Cell Proteomics. 10(11):M111.008540Systematic phosphorylation analysis of human mitotic protein complexes.
Sci Signal. 4(198):rs12Lesson from the stoichiometry determination of the cohesin complex: a short protease mediated elution increases the recovery from cross-linked antibody-conjugated beads.
J Proteome Res. 10(2):780-92010
Systematic analysis of human protein complexes identifies chromosome segregation proteins.
Science. 328(5978):593-9A new acid mix enhances phosphopeptide enrichment on titanium- and zirconium dioxide for mapping of phosphorylation sites on protein complexes.
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 878(5-6):515-24Phenotypic profiling of the human genome by time-lapse microscopy reveals cell division genes.
Nature. 464(7289):721-7Sororin mediates sister chromatid cohesion by antagonizing Wapl.
Cell. 143(5):737-49Live-cell imaging RNAi screen identifies PP2A-B55alpha and importin-beta1 as key mitotic exit regulators in human cells.
Nat Cell Biol. 12(9):886-932009
Structure of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome interacting with a mitotic checkpoint complex.
Science. 323(5920):1477-81HAUS, the 8-subunit human Augmin complex, regulates centrosome and spindle integrity.
Curr Biol. 19(10):816-26Preventing carryover of peptides and proteins in nano LC-MS separations.
Anal Chem. 81(14):5955-60Cohesin is required for higher-order chromatin conformation at the imprinted IGF2-H19 locus.
PLoS Genet. 5(11):e1000739Cohesin acetylation: from antiestablishment to establishment.
Mol Cell. 34(1):1-2The cohesin complex is required for the DNA damage-induced G2/M checkpoint in mammalian cells.
EMBO J. 28(17):2625-35How cohesin and CTCF cooperate in regulating gene expression.
Chromosome Res. 17(2):201-142008
GraFix: sample preparation for single-particle electron cryomicroscopy.
Nat Methods. 5(1):53-5The Suv39h-HP1 histone methylation pathway is dispensable for enrichment and protection of cohesin at centromeres in mammalian cells.
Chromosoma. 117(2):199-210The cohesin complex and its roles in chromosome biology.
Genes Dev. 22(22):3089-114Polo on the Rise-from Mitotic Entry to Cytokinesis with Plk1.
Dev Cell. 14(5):646-59BAC TransgeneOmics: a high-throughput method for exploration of protein function in mammals.
Nat Methods. 5(5):409-15Polo and Aurora kinases: lessons derived from chemical biology.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 20(1):77-84Twenty years of cell-cycle conferences in Roscoff.
Nat Cell Biol. 10(8):877-80Cohesin mediates transcriptional insulation by CCCTC-binding factor.
Nature. 451(7180):796-8012007
A systematic comparative and structural analysis of protein phosphorylation sites based on the mtcPTM database.
Genome Biol. 8(5):R90The small-molecule inhibitor BI 2536 reveals novel insights into mitotic roles of polo-like kinase 1.
Curr Biol. 17(4):304-15Aurora B controls the association of condensin I but not condensin II with mitotic chromosomes.
J Cell Sci. 120(Pt 7):1245-55Titanium dioxide as a chemo-affinity solid phase in offline phosphopeptide chromatography prior to HPLC-MS/MS analysis.
Nat Protoc. 2(5):1059-69The complete removal of cohesin from chromosome arms depends on separase.
J Cell Sci. 120(Pt 23):4188-96Polo-like kinase 1 triggers the initiation of cytokinesis in human cells by promoting recruitment of the RhoGEF Ect2 to the central spindle.
Dev Cell. 12(5):713-25Sororin is required for stable binding of cohesin to chromatin and for sister chromatid cohesion in interphase.
Curr Biol. 17(7):630-6BI 2536, a potent and selective inhibitor of polo-like kinase 1, inhibits tumor growth in vivo.
Curr Biol. 17(4):316-22Molecular biology. How and when the genome sticks together.
Science. 317(5835):209-102006
Condensin I stabilizes chromosomes mechanically through a dynamic interaction in live cells.
Curr Biol. 16(4):333-44Live-cell imaging reveals a stable cohesin-chromatin interaction after but not before DNA replication.
Curr Biol. 16(15):1571-8Methods to measure ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis mediated by the anaphase-promoting complex.
Methods. 38(1):39-51Wapl controls the dynamic association of cohesin with chromatin.
Cell. 127(5):955-67Checkpoint activation: don't get mad too much.
Curr Biol. 16(11):R412-4Cleaning of raw peptide MS/MS spectra: improved protein identification following deconvolution of multiply charged peaks, isotope clusters, and removal of background noise.
Proteomics. 6(19):5117-31The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome: a machine designed to destroy.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 7(9):644-56Human Scc4 is required for cohesin binding to chromatin, sister-chromatid cohesion, and mitotic progression.
Curr Biol. 16(9):863-74Separase: a universal trigger for sister chromatid disjunction but not chromosome cycle progression.
J Cell Biol. 172(6):847-602005
Localization of the coactivator Cdh1 and the cullin subunit Apc2 in a cryo-electron microscopy model of vertebrate APC/C.
Mol Cell. 20(6):867-79Dissociation of cohesin from chromosome arms and loss of arm cohesion during early mitosis depends on phosphorylation of SA2.
PLoS Biol. 3(3):e69Identification of cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation sites on the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome by mass spectrometry.
Methods Enzymol. 398:231-45Large-scale purification of the vertebrate anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome.
Methods Enzymol. 398:175-95Histone H3 serine 10 phosphorylation by Aurora B causes HP1 dissociation from heterochromatin.
Nature. 438(7071):1176-80The WD40 propeller domain of Cdh1 functions as a destruction box receptor for APC/C substrates.
Mol Cell. 18(5):543-53Shugoshin prevents dissociation of cohesin from centromeres during mitosis in vertebrate cells.
PLoS Biol. 3(3):e862004
The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome is recruited to centromeres by the spindle assembly checkpoint.
Nat Cell Biol. 6(9):892-8Regulation of sister chromatid cohesion between chromosome arms.
Curr Biol. 14(13):1187-93[Setting the stage for mitosis: kinase regulation of prophase].
Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso. 49(8):1183-94Distinct functions of condensin I and II in mitotic chromosome assembly.
J Cell Sci. 117(Pt 26):6435-45The E2-C vihar is required for the correct spatiotemporal proteolysis of cyclin B and itself undergoes cyclical degradation.
Curr Biol. 14(19):1723-33Roles of polo-like kinase 1 in the assembly of functional mitotic spindles.
Curr Biol. 14(19):1712-22APC/C and SCF: controlling each other and the cell cycle.
Curr Biol. 14(18):R787-962003
Early mitotic degradation of the homeoprotein HOXC10 is potentially linked to cell cycle progression.
EMBO J. 22(14):3715-24The small molecule Hesperadin reveals a role for Aurora B in correcting kinetochore-microtubule attachment and in maintaining the spindle assembly checkpoint.
J Cell Biol. 161(2):281-94Mitotic regulation of the human anaphase-promoting complex by phosphorylation.
EMBO J. 22(24):6598-609Emi1 proteolysis: how SCF(beta-Trcp1) helps to activate the anaphase-promoting complex.
Mol Cell. 11(6):1420-1The meiosis I-to-meiosis II transition in mouse oocytes requires separase activity.
Curr Biol. 13(20):1797-802TPR subunits of the anaphase-promoting complex mediate binding to the activator protein CDH1.
Curr Biol. 13(17):1459-68Identification of a subunit of a novel Kleisin-beta/SMC complex as a potential substrate of protein phosphatase 2A.
Curr Biol. 13(23):2058-642002
Human securin proteolysis is controlled by the spindle checkpoint and reveals when the APC/C switches from activation by Cdc20 to Cdh1.
J Cell Biol. 157(7):1125-37The anaphase-promoting complex: proteolysis in mitosis and beyond.
Mol Cell. 9(5):931-43The dissociation of cohesin from chromosomes in prophase is regulated by Polo-like kinase.
Mol Cell. 9(3):515-25Conspiracy to disarm APC in interphase.
Nat Cell Biol. 4(5):E119-20Regulation of human separase by securin binding and autocleavage.
Curr Biol. 12(16):1368-782001
Anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome-dependent proteolysis of human cyclin A starts at the beginning of mitosis and is not subject to the spindle assembly checkpoint.
J Cell Biol. 153(1):137-48Three-dimensional structure of the anaphase-promoting complex.
Mol Cell. 7(4):907-13Cohesin cleavage by separase required for anaphase and cytokinesis in human cells.
Science. 293(5533):1320-3Securin is required for chromosomal stability in human cells.
Cell. 105(4):445-57Splitting the chromosome: cutting the ties that bind sister chromatids.
Novartis Found Symp. 237:113-33; discussion 133-8, 158-63Emi1 is a mitotic regulator that interacts with Cdc20 and inhibits the anaphase promoting complex.
Cell. 105(5):645-55Scc1/Rad21/Mcd1 is required for sister chromatid cohesion and kinetochore function in vertebrate cells.
Dev Cell. 1(6):759-70A conserved cyclin-binding domain determines functional interplay between anaphase-promoting complex-Cdh1 and cyclin A-Cdk2 during cell cycle progression.
Mol Cell Biol. 21(11):3692-703Cell cycle: Waiters serving the Destruction machinery.
Curr Biol. 11(20):R834-7Crystal structure of the APC10/DOC1 subunit of the human anaphase-promoting complex.
Nat Struct Biol. 8(9):784-82000
Cullins and cell cycle control.
Protoplasma. 211:20-28The RING-H2 finger protein APC11 and the E2 enzyme UBC4 are sufficient to ubiquitinate substrates of the anaphase-promoting complex.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97(16):8973-8Mitotic regulation of the APC activator proteins CDC20 and CDH1.
Mol Biol Cell. 11(5):1555-69Splitting the chromosome: cutting the ties that bind sister chromatids.
Science. 288(5470):1379-85Cell cycle- and cell growth-regulated proteolysis of mammalian CDC6 is dependent on APC-CDH1.
Genes Dev. 14(18):2330-43Nonperiodic activity of the human anaphase-promoting complex-Cdh1 ubiquitin ligase results in continuous DNA synthesis uncoupled from mitosis.
Mol Cell Biol. 20(20):7613-23Characterization of vertebrate cohesin complexes and their regulation in prophase.
J Cell Biol. 151(4):749-62Two distinct pathways remove mammalian cohesin from chromosome arms in prophase and from centromeres in anaphase.
Cell. 103(3):399-4101999
Expression of the CDH1-associated form of the anaphase-promoting complex in postmitotic neurons.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 96(20):11317-22Characterization of the DOC1/APC10 subunit of the yeast and the human anaphase-promoting complex.
J Biol Chem. 274(20):14500-7Accumulation of cyclin B1 requires E2F and cyclin-A-dependent rearrangement of the anaphase-promoting complex.
Nature. 401(6755):815-8Subunits and substrates of the anaphase-promoting complex.
Exp Cell Res. 248(2):339-491998
Activation of the human anaphase-promoting complex by proteins of the CDC20/Fizzy family.
Curr Biol. 8(22):1207-10SCF and APC: the Yin and Yang of cell cycle regulated proteolysis.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 10(6):759-68Cell cycle control by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis.
Ubiquitin and the biology of the cell (eds. Peters, JM., Harris, JR., Finley, D.) . :345-87Regulation of the cyclin B degradation system by an inhibitor of mitotic proteolysis.
Mol Biol Cell. 9(7):1817-31Identification of a cullin homology region in a subunit of the anaphase-promoting complex.
Science. 279(5354):1219-221997
APC-mediated proteolysis of Ase1 and the morphogenesis of the mitotic spindle.
Science. 275(5304):1311-4Topogenesis of a nucleolar protein: determination of molecular segments directing nucleolar association.
Mol Biol Cell. 8(2):231-481996
Anaphase initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is controlled by the APC-dependent degradation of the anaphase inhibitor Pds1p.
Genes Dev. 10(24):3081-93How proteolysis drives the cell cycle.
Science. 274(5293):1652-9Identification of BIME as a subunit of the anaphase-promoting complex.
Science. 274(5290):1199-201Identification of a novel ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme involved in mitotic cyclin degradation.
Curr Biol. 6(4):455-661995
The formation of Golgi stacks from vesiculated Golgi membranes requires two distinct fusion events.
Cell. 82(6):895-904The ATPase activity of purified CDC48p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae shows complex dependence on ATP-, ADP-, and NADH-concentrations and is completely inhibited by NEM.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 1253(1):25-32A 20S complex containing CDC27 and CDC16 catalyzes the mitosis-specific conjugation of ubiquitin to cyclin B.
Cell. 81(2):279-88Maintenance of cell-type-specific cytoskeletal character in epithelial cells out of epithelial context: cytokeratins and other cytoskeletal proteins in the rests of Malassez of the periodontal ligament.
Differentiation. 59(2):113-26An NSF-like ATPase, p97, and NSF mediate cisternal regrowth from mitotic Golgi fragments.
Cell. 82(6):905-141994
Proteasomes: protein degradation machines of the cell.
Trends Biochem Sci. 19(9):377-82Distinct 19 S and 20 S subcomplexes of the 26 S proteasome and their distribution in the nucleus and the cytoplasm.
J Biol Chem. 269(10):7709-181993
Structural features of the 26 S proteasome complex.
J Mol Biol. 234(4):932-71992
Ubiquitous soluble Mg(2+)-ATPase complex. A structural study.
J Mol Biol. 223(2):557-711991
Ultrastructure of the approximately 26S complex containing the approximately 20S cylinder particle (multicatalytic proteinase/proteasome).
Eur J Cell Biol. 56(2):422-321990
An abundant and ubiquitous homo-oligomeric ring-shaped ATPase particle related to the putative vesicle fusion proteins Sec18p and NSF.
EMBO J. 9(6):1757-671986
Immunolocalization and partial characterization of a nucleolar autoantigen (PM-Scl) associated with polymyositis/scleroderma overlap syndromes.
J Immunol. 137(12):3802-8