For Journal Club on July 22, Connie Peng presented the following paper:
Mps1 and Ipl1/Aurora B act sequentially to correctly orient chromosomes on the meiotic spindle of budding yeast. Meyer RE, Kim S, Obeso D, Straight PD, Winey M, Dawson DS. Science. 2013 Mar 1;339(6123):1071-4. PMID: 23371552
Meyer Science 2013
For Microtubules and Mitosis Journal Club on April 25, members of the Drubin/Barnes Lab, Eva Nogales Lab, and Ahmet Yildiz Lab will discuss the following paper, selected by Stu Howes:
Synergy between XMAP215 and EB1 increases microtubule growth rates to physiological levels. Zanic M, Widlund PO, Hyman AA, Howard J. Nat Cell Biol. 2013 Jun;15(6):688-93. PMID: 23666085.
Reaction scheme for an enzymatic reaction with two non-essential activators. The microtubule end is viewed as an enzyme that catalyses the reaction: tubulin in solution (substrate)→tubulin in the polymer (product) by providing a much more efficient pathway than direct incorporation into the lattice. XMAP215 and EB1 are viewed as two non-essential enzyme activators that accelerate the net rate of addition at the end. Filled arrows represent the flux of polymerization through a particular vertex. M, microtubule end; T, free tubulin; X, XMAP215; E, EB1.
For our Journal Club on June 17, Jessica Marks will present the following paper:
Hypothetical energy profiles for the closed and open transition states.
Amphipathic antenna of an inward rectifier K+ channel responds to changes in the inner membrane leaflet. Iwamoto M, Oiki S. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jan 8;110(2):749-54. PMID: 23267068.
For our Journal Club on June 3, Daphné Dambournet presented the following paper:
Divergent modes for cargo-mediated control of clathrin-coated pit dynamics. Soohoo AL, Puthenveedu MA. Mol Biol Cell. 2013 Jun;24(11):1725-34. PMID: 23536704.
Model for divergent modes of cargo-mediated control of endocytosis by signaling receptors.
For Microtubules and Mitosis Journal Club on April 25, members of the Drubin/Barnes Lab, Eva Nogales Lab, and Ahmet Yildiz Lab discussed the following paper, selected by Anthony Cormier:
Tension sensing by Aurora B kinase is independent of survivin-based centromere localization. Campbell CS, Desai A. Nature. 2013 May 2;497(7447):118-21. PMID: 23604256.
Model for mechanism of chromosome biorientation.
For our Journal Club on May 13, Christa Cortesio presented the following paper:
ER-to-plasma membrane tethering proteins regulate cell signaling and ER morphology. Manford AG, Stefan CJ, Yuan HL, Macgurn JA, Emr SD. Dev Cell. 2012 Dec 11;23(6):1129-40. PMID: 23237950.
Localization of the ER marker Sec61-GFP in wild-type and Δtether cells (ist2Δ, scs2/22Δ, and tcb1/2/3Δ).
For our Journal Club on April 29, Sun Hae Hong presented the following paper:
The molecular basis for the endocytosis of small R-SNAREs by the clathrin adaptor CALM. Miller SE, Sahlender DA, Graham SC, Höning S, Robinson MS, Peden AA, Owen DJ. Cell. 2011 Nov 23;147(5):1118-31. PMID: 22118466
Schematic representation of the model of VAMP8 trafficking from the plasma membrane.
For our new Microtubules and Mitosis Journal Club on April 25, members of the Drubin/Barnes Lab, Eva Nogales Lab, and Ahmet Yildiz Lab discussed the following paper, selected by Nate Krefman:
Estimating the microtubule GTP cap size in vivo. Seetapun D, Castle BT, McIntyre AJ, Tran PT, Odde DJ. Curr Biol. 2012 Sep 25;22(18):1681-7. PMID: 22902755
Example EB1 comet from an EB1-EGFP LLCPK1 cell and the corresponding fluorescence intensity (FI) linescan, blue line.
For our Journal Club on April 18, Akemi Kunibe presented the following paper:
Endoplasmic reticulum-associated mitochondria-cortex tether functions in the distribution and inheritance of mitochondria. Lackner LL, Ping H, Graef M, Murley A, Nunnari J. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Feb 5;110(6):E458-67. PMID: 23341591.
The ER is a component of the Num1 mitochondria–cell cortex tether.
For our Journal Club on March 17, Rebecca Lu will present the following paper:
Robust polarity establishment occurs via an endocytosis-based cortical corralling mechanism. Jose M, Tollis S, Nair D, Sibarita JB, McCusker D. J Cell Biol. 2013 Feb 18;200(4):407-18. PMID: 23401000
Schematics illustrating the mathematical model. Shown are the Cdc42 autoamplification module (A), the complete endocytosis module (B), the exocytosis module (C), and a legend for graphics (D).