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Nitric Oxide Prevents Glioblastoma Stem Cells' Expansion and Induces Temozolomide Sensitization by Salvatori, Luisa, Malatesta, Silvia, Illi, Barbara, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Fionda, Cinzia, Stabile, Helena, Fontanella, Rosaria Anna, Gaetano, Carlo

“…Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) has high mortality and recurrence rates. Malignancy resilience is ascribed to Glioblastoma Stem Cells (GSCs), which are resistant…”
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Myc inhibition is effective against glioma and reveals a role for Myc in proficient mitosis by Annibali, Daniela, Whitfield, Jonathan R., Favuzzi, Emilia, Jauset, Toni, Serrano, Erika, Cuartas, Isabel, Redondo-Campos, Sara, Folch, Gerard, Gonzàlez-Juncà, Alba, Sodir, Nicole M., Massó-Vallés, Daniel, Beaulieu, Marie-Eve, Swigart, Lamorna B., Mc Gee, Margaret M., Somma, Maria Patrizia, Nasi, Sergio, Seoane, Joan, Evan, Gerard I., Soucek, Laura

“…Gliomas are the most common primary tumours affecting the adult central nervous system and respond poorly to standard therapy. Myc is causally implicated in…”
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Splicing factors Sf3A2 and Prp31 have direct roles in mitotic chromosome segregation by Pellacani, Claudia, Bucciarelli, Elisabetta, Renda, Fioranna, Hayward, Daniel, Palena, Antonella, Chen, Jack, Bonaccorsi, Silvia, Wakefield, James G, Gatti, Maurizio, Somma, Maria Patrizia

“…Several studies have shown that RNAi-mediated depletion of splicing factors (SFs) results in mitotic abnormalities. However, it is currently unclear whether…”
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The Drosophila orthologue of the INT6 onco-protein regulates mitotic microtubule growth and kinetochore structure by Renda, Fioranna, Pellacani, Claudia, Strunov, Anton, Bucciarelli, Elisabetta, Naim, Valeria, Bosso, Giuseppe, Kiseleva, Elena, Bonaccorsi, Silvia, Sharp, David J, Khodjakov, Alexey, Gatti, Maurizio, Somma, Maria Patrizia

“…INT6/eIF3e is a highly conserved component of the translation initiation complex that interacts with both the 26S proteasome and the COP9 signalosome, two…”
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RNAi-mediated depletion of the NSL complex subunits leads to abnormal chromosome segregation and defective centrosome duplication in Drosophila mitosis by Pavlova, Gera A, Popova, Julia V, Andreyeva, Evgeniya N, Yarinich, Lyubov A, Lebedev, Mikhail O, Razuvaeva, Alyona V, Dubatolova, Tatiana D, Oshchepkova, Anastasiya L, Pellacani, Claudia, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Pindyurin, Alexey V, Gatti, Maurizio

“…The Drosophila Nonspecific Lethal (NSL) complex is a major transcriptional regulator of housekeeping genes. It contains at least seven subunits that are…”
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The Multiple Mitotic Roles of the ASPM Orthologous Proteins: Insight into the Etiology of ASPM-Dependent Microcephaly by Razuvaeva, Alyona V, Graziadio, Lucia, Palumbo, Valeria, Pavlova, Gera A, Popova, Julia V, Pindyurin, Alexey V, Bonaccorsi, Silvia, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Gatti, Maurizio

“…The ( ) gene was discovered about 40 years ago and shown to be required for both mitotic and meiotic cell division. Subsequent studies showed that is highly…”
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Correction to: DNA copy number evolution in Drosophila cell lines by Lee, Hangnoh, McManus, C Joel, Cho, Dong-Yeon, Eaton, Matthew, Renda, Fioranna, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Cherbas, Lucy, May, Gemma, Powell, Sara, Zhang, Dayu, Zhan, Lijun, Resch, Alissa, Andrews, Justen, Celniker, Susan E, Cherbas, Peter, Przytycka, Teresa M, Gatti, Maurizio, Oliver, Brian, Graveley, Brenton, MacAlpine, David

“…Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported the following errors…”
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Moonlighting in Mitosis: Analysis of the Mitotic Functions of Transcription and Splicing Factors by Somma, Maria Patrizia, Andreyeva, Evgeniya N, Pavlova, Gera A, Pellacani, Claudia, Bucciarelli, Elisabetta, Popova, Julia V, Bonaccorsi, Silvia, Pindyurin, Alexey V, Gatti, Maurizio

“…Moonlighting proteins can perform one or more additional functions besides their primary role. It has been posited that a protein can acquire a moonlighting…”
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Bypassing the Greatwall-Endosulfine pathway: plasticity of a pivotal cell-cycle regulatory module in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans by Kim, Min-Young, Bucciarelli, Elisabetta, Morton, Diane G, Williams, Byron C, Blake-Hodek, Kristina, Pellacani, Claudia, Von Stetina, Jessica R, Hu, Xiaoqian, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Drummond-Barbosa, Daniela, Goldberg, Michael L

“…In vertebrates, mitotic and meiotic M phase is facilitated by the kinase Greatwall (Gwl), which phosphorylates a conserved sequence in the effector Endosulfine…”
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Genetic Control of Kinetochore-Driven Microtubule Growth in Drosophila Mitosis by Popova, Julia V., Pavlova, Gera A., Razuvaeva, Alyona V., Yarinich, Lyubov A., Andreyeva, Evgeniya N., Anders, Alina F., Galimova, Yuliya A., Renda, Fioranna, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Pindyurin, Alexey V., Gatti, Maurizio

“…Centrosome-containing cells assemble their spindles exploiting three main classes of microtubules (MTs): MTs nucleated by the centrosomes, MTs generated near…”
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Identification of Drosophila mitotic genes by combining co-expression analysis and RNA interference by Somma, Maria Patrizia, Ceprani, Francesca, Bucciarelli, Elisabetta, Naim, Valeria, De Arcangelis, Valeria, Piergentili, Roberto, Palena, Antonella, Ciapponi, Laura, Giansanti, Maria Grazia, Pellacani, Claudia, Petrucci, Romano, Cenci, Giovanni, Vernì, Fiammetta, Fasulo, Barbara, Goldberg, Michael L, Di Cunto, Ferdinando, Gatti, Maurizio

“…RNAi screens have, to date, identified many genes required for mitotic divisions of Drosophila tissue culture cells. However, the inventory of such genes…”
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Feo, the Drosophila Homolog of PRC1, Is Required for Central-Spindle Formation and Cytokinesis by Vernı̀, Fiammetta, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Gunsalus, Kristin C., Bonaccorsi, Silvia, Belloni, Giorgio, Goldberg, Michael L., Gatti, Maurizio

“…We performed a functional analysis of fascetto (feo), a Drosophila gene that encodes a protein homologous to the Ase1p/PRC1/MAP65 conserved family of…”
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A signature inferred from Drosophila mitotic genes predicts survival of breast cancer patients by Damasco, Christian, Lembo, Antonio, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Gatti, Maurizio, Di Cunto, Ferdinando, Provero, Paolo

“…The classification of breast cancer patients into risk groups provides a powerful tool for the identification of patients who will benefit from aggressive…”
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The role of Patronin in Drosophila mitosis by Pavlova, Gera A, Razuvaeva, Alyona V, Popova, Julia V, Andreyeva, Evgeniya N, Yarinich, Lyubov A, Lebedev, Mikhail O, Pellacani, Claudia, Bonaccorsi, Silvia, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Gatti, Maurizio, Pindyurin, Alexey V

“…The calmodulin-regulated spectrin-associated proteins (CAMSAPs) belong to a conserved protein family, which includes members that bind the polymerizing…”
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Publisher Correction: The role of Patronin in Drosophila mitosis by Pavlova, Gera A, Razuvaeva, Alyona V, Popova, Julia V, Andreyeva, Evgeniya N, Yarinich, Lyubov A, Lebedev, Mikhail O, Pellacani, Claudia, Bonaccorsi, Silvia, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Gatti, Maurizio, Pindyurin, Alexey V

“…During production of the original article [1], there was a technical error that resulted in author corrections not being rendered in the PDF version of the…”
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Chromosome Condensation Defects in barren RNA-Interfered Drosophila Cells by Somma, Maria Patrizia, Fasulo, Barbara, Siriaco, Giorgia, Cenci, Giovanni

“…Barren, the Drosophila homolog of XCAP-H, is one of three non-SMC subunits of condensin, a conserved 13S multiprotein complex required for chromosome…”
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A Role for the Twins Protein Phosphatase (PP2A-B55) in the Maintenance of Drosophila Genome Integrity by Merigliano, Chiara, Marzio, Antonio, Renda, Fioranna, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Gatti, Maurizio, Vernì, Fiammetta

“…The protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) is a conserved heterotrimeric enzyme that regulates several cellular processes including the DNA damage response and mitosis…”
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Drosophila Dgt6 Interacts with Ndc80, Msps/XMAP215, and γ-Tubulin to Promote Kinetochore-Driven MT Formation by Bucciarelli, Elisabetta, Pellacani, Claudia, Naim, Valeria, Palena, Antonella, Gatti, Maurizio, Somma, Maria Patrizia

“…In centrosome-containing cells, spindle assembly relies on microtubules (MTs) nucleated from both centrosomes and chromosomes [1, 2]. Recent work has suggested…”
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Molecular dissection of cytokinesis by RNA interference in Drosophila cultured cells by Somma, Maria Patrizia, Fasulo, Barbara, Cenci, Giovanni, Cundari, Enrico, Gatti, Maurizio

“…We have used double-stranded RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) to study Drosophila cytokinesis. We show that double-stranded RNAs for anillin, acGAP, pavarotti,…”
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Genetic Control of Kinetochore-Driven Microtubule Growth in IDrosophila/I Mitosis by Popova, Julia V, Pavlova, Gera A, Razuvaeva, Alyona V, Yarinich, Lyubov A, Andreyeva, Evgeniya N, Anders, Alina F, Galimova, Yuliya A, Renda, Fioranna, Somma, Maria Patrizia, Pindyurin, Alexey V, Gatti, Maurizio

“…Centrosome-containing cells assemble their spindles exploiting three main classes of microtubules (MTs): MTs nucleated by the centrosomes, MTs generated near…”
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