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Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Microtubules and Mitotic Spindles by Lacroix, Benjamin, Dumont, Julien

“…During cell division, the mitotic spindle, a macromolecular structure primarily comprised of microtubules, drives chromosome alignment and partitioning between…”
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In Vitro Reconstitution of Dynein Force Exertion in a Bulk Viscous Medium by Palenzuela, Héliciane, Lacroix, Benjamin, Sallé, Jérémy, Minami, Katsuhiko, Shima, Tomohiro, Jegou, Antoine, Romet-Lemonne, Guillaume, Minc, Nicolas

“…The forces generated by microtubules (MTs) and their associated motors orchestrate essential cellular processes ranging from vesicular trafficking to…”
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Tubulin polyglutamylation stimulates spastin-mediated microtubule severing by Lacroix, Benjamin, van Dijk, Juliette, Gold, Nicholas D, Guizetti, Julien, Aldrian-Herrada, Gudrun, Rogowski, Krzysztof, Gerlich, Daniel W, Janke, Carsten

“…Posttranslational glutamylation of tubulin is present on selected subsets of microtubules in cells. Although the modification is expected to contribute to the…”
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A Targeted Multienzyme Mechanism for Selective Microtubule Polyglutamylation by van Dijk, Juliette, Rogowski, Krzysztof, Miro, Julie, Lacroix, Benjamin, Eddé, Bernard, Janke, Carsten

“…Polyglutamylases are enzymes that form polyglutamate side chains of variable lengths on proteins. Polyglutamylation of tubulin is believed to regulate…”
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Structural, enzymatic and spatiotemporal regulation of PP2A-B55 phosphatase in the control of mitosis by Lacroix, Benjamin, Lorca, Thierry, Castro, Anna

“…Cells require major physical changes to induce a proper repartition of the DNA. Nuclear envelope breakdown, DNA condensation and spindle formation are promoted…”
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Synergistic stabilization of microtubules by BUB-1, HCP-1, and CLS-2 controls microtubule pausing and meiotic spindle assembly by Macaisne, Nicolas, Bellutti, Laura, Laband, Kimberley, Edwards, Frances, Pitayu-Nugroho, Laras, Gervais, Alison, Ganeswaran, Thadshagine, Geoffroy, Hélène, Maton, Gilliane, Canman, Julie C, Lacroix, Benjamin, Dumont, Julien

“…During cell division, chromosome segregation is orchestrated by a microtubule-based spindle. Interaction between spindle microtubules and kinetochores is…”
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Kinetochore components are required for central spindle assembly by Maton, Gilliane, Edwards, Frances, Lacroix, Benjamin, Stefanutti, Marine, Laband, Kimberley, Lieury, Tiffany, Kim, Taekyung, Espeut, Julien, Canman, Julie C., Dumont, Julien

“…Using C. elegans zygotes, Dumont and colleagues find that kinetochore proteins, including KNL-1, participate in assembly of central spindle microtubules for…”
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Quantitative analysis of cytokinesis in situ during C. elegans postembryonic development by Bourdages, Karine G, Lacroix, Benjamin, Dorn, Jonas F, Descovich, Carlos P, Maddox, Amy S

“…The physical separation of a cell into two daughter cells during cytokinesis requires cell-intrinsic shape changes driven by a contractile ring. However, in…”
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Polyglutamylation Is a Post-translational Modification with a Broad Range of Substrates by van Dijk, Juliette, Miro, Julie, Strub, Jean-Marc, Lacroix, Benjamin, van Dorsselaer, Alain, Edde, Bernard, Janke, Carsten

“…Polyglutamylation is a post-translational modification that generates lateral acidic side chains on proteins by sequential addition of glutamate amino acids…”
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Kinetic Analysis of Tubulin Assembly in the Presence of the Microtubule-associated Protein TOGp by Bonfils, Claude, Bec, Nicole, Lacroix, Benjamin, Harricane, Marie-Cé;cile, Larroque, Christian

“…The microtubule-associated protein TOGp, which belongs to a widely distributed protein family from yeasts to humans, is highly expressed in human tumors and…”
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Cytokinesis, ploidy and aneuploidy by Lacroix, Benjamin, Maddox, Amy Shaub

“…Cytokinesis is the last step of cell division that physically separates the daughter cells. As such, it ensures the proper inheritance of both nuclear and…”
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Region-based memetic algorithm with archive for multimodal optimisation by Lacroix, Benjamin, Molina, Daniel, Herrera, Francisco

“…In this paper we propose a specially designed memetic algorithm for multimodal optimisation problems. The proposal uses a niching strategy, called region-based…”
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Increases in cyclin A/Cdk activity and in PP2A-B55 inhibition by FAM122A are key mitosis-inducing events by Lacroix, Benjamin, Vigneron, Suzanne, Labbé, Jean Claude, Pintard, Lionel, Lionne, Corinne, Labesse, Gilles, Castro, Anna, Lorca, Thierry

“…Entry into mitosis has been classically attributed to the activation of a cyclin B/Cdk1 amplification loop via a partial pool of this kinase becoming active at…”
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Increases in cyclin A/Cdk activity and in PP2A-B55 inhibition by FAM122A are key mitosis-inducing events by Lacroix, Benjamin, Vigneron, Suzanne, Labbé, Jean Claude, Pintard, Lionel, Lionne, Corinne, Labesse, Gilles, Castro, Anna, Lorca, Thierry

“…Entry into mitosis has been classically attributed to activation of a cyclin B/Cdk1 amplification loop via a partial pool of this kinase becoming active at the…”
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Increases in cyclin A/Cdk activity and in PP2A-B55 inhibition by FAM122A are key mitosis-inducing events by Lacroix, Benjamin, Vigneron, Suzanne, Labbé, Jean Claude, Pintard, Lionel, Lionne, Corinne, Labesse, Gilles, Castro, Anna, Lorca, Thierry

“…Abstract Entry into mitosis has been classically attributed to the activation of a cyclin B/Cdk1 amplification loop via a partial pool of this kinase becoming…”
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Structural, enzymatic and spatiotemporal regulation of PP2A-B55 phosphatase in the control of mitosis by Lacroix, Benjamin, Lorca, Thierry, Castro, Anna

“…Cells require major physical changes to induce a proper repartition of the DNA. Nuclear envelope breakdown, DNA condensation and spindle formation are promoted…”
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Region based memetic algorithm for real-parameter optimisation by Lacroix, Benjamin, Molina, Daniel, Herrera, Francisco

“…Memetic algorithms with an appropriate trade-off between the exploration and exploitation can obtain very good results in continuous optimisation. That implies…”
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Microtubule Dynamics Scale with Cell Size to Set Spindle Length and Assembly Timing by Lacroix, Benjamin, Letort, Gaëlle, Pitayu, Laras, Sallé, Jérémy, Stefanutti, Marine, Maton, Gilliane, Ladouceur, Anne-Marie, Canman, Julie C., Maddox, Paul S., Maddox, Amy S., Minc, Nicolas, Nédélec, François, Dumont, Julien

“…Successive cell divisions during embryonic cleavage create increasingly smaller cells, so intracellular structures must adapt accordingly. Mitotic spindle size…”
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A Family of Protein-Deglutamylating Enzymes Associated with Neurodegeneration by Rogowski, Krzysztof, van Dijk, Juliette, Magiera, Maria M., Bosc, Christophe, Deloulme, Jean-Christophe, Bosson, Anouk, Peris, Leticia, Gold, Nicholas D., Lacroix, Benjamin, Grau, Montserrat Bosch, Bec, Nicole, Larroque, Christian, Desagher, Solange, Holzer, Max, Andrieux, Annie, Moutin, Marie-Jo, Janke, Carsten

“…Polyglutamylation is a posttranslational modification that generates glutamate side chains on tubulins and other proteins. Although this modification has been…”
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In Vitro Reconstitution of Dynein Force Exertion in a Bulk Viscous Medium by Palenzuela, Héliciane, Lacroix, Benjamin, Sallé, Jérémy, Minami, Katsuhiko, Shima, Tomohiro, Jegou, Antoine, Romet ‐ Lemonne, Guillaume, Minc, Nicolas

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