Motor proteins in cell division

Polewards microtubule flux in the mitotic spindle: evidence from photoactivation of fluorescence.

1989 • 603 citations

Localization of cytoplasmic dynein to mitotic spindles and kinetochores

1990 • 508 citations

KAR3, a kinesin-related gene required for yeast nuclear fusion

1990 • 504 citations

Cytoplasmic dynein is localized to kinetochores during mitosis

1990 • 486 citations

Real-time visualization of cell cycle-dependent changes in microtubule dynamics in cytoplasmic extracts

1990 • 444 citations

Polewards chromosome movement driven by microtubule depolymerization in vitro

1988 • 409 citations

Mutation of a gene that encodes a kinesin-like protein blocks nuclear division in A. nidulans

1990 • 404 citations

Light-chain phosphorylation controls the conformation of vertebrate non-muscle and smooth muscle myosin molecules

1983 • 393 citations

Novel potential mitotic motor protein encoded by the fission yeast cut7+ gene

1990 • 366 citations

The Drosophila claret segregation protein is a minus-end directed motor molecule

1990 • 345 citations

The kinesin-like ncd protein of Drosophila is a minus end-directed microtubule motor

1990 • 335 citations

Chromosomes move poleward in anaphase along stationary microtubules that coordinately disassemble from their kinetochore ends.

1987 • 314 citations

Oscillatory movements of monooriented chromosomes and their position relative to the spindle pole result from the ejection properties of the aster and half-spindle.

1986 • 302 citations

Identification of kinesin in sea urchin eggs, and evidence for its localization in the mitotic spindle

1985 • 301 citations

Taxol-induced microtubule asters in mitotic extracts of Xenopus eggs: requirement for phosphorylated factors and cytoplasmic dynein.

1991 • 300 citations

Gene replacement in Dictyostelium: generation of myosin null mutants.

1989 • 299 citations

The regulatory light chain of nonmuscle myosin is encoded by spaghetti-squash, a gene required for cytokinesis in Drosophila

1991 • 281 citations

Microtubule treadmills—possible molecular machinery

1981 • 279 citations

Reversible cyclic AMP-dependent change in distribution of myosin thick filaments in Dictyostelium

1985 • 250 citations

Mediation of meiotic and early mitotic chromosome segregation in Drosophila by a protein related to kinesin

1990 • 229 citations

The Forces that Move Chromosomes in Mitosis

1988 • 219 citations

Microtubule depolymerization promotes particle and chromosome movement in vitro.

1991 • 215 citations

A kinesin-like protein required for distributive chromosome segregation in Drosophila

1990 • 209 citations

The motor for poleward chromosome movement in anaphase is in or near the kinetochore.

1989 • 202 citations

Two different microtubule-based motor activities with opposite polarities in kinetochores

1991 • 202 citations

Kinesin heavy chain is essential for viability and neuromuscular functions in Drosophila, but mutants show no defects in mitosis

1991 • 197 citations

MOTOR PROTEINS OF CYTOPLASMIC MICROTUBULES

1990 • 196 citations

Poleward microtubule flux mitotic spindles assembled in vitro.

1991 • 184 citations

Structure and function of the cytoskeleton of a Dictyostelium myosin-defective mutant.

1990 • 173 citations

Chromosome motion during attachment to the vertebrate spindle: initial saltatory-like behavior of chromosomes and quantitative analysis of force production by nascent kinetochore fibers.

1991 • 149 citations

Cloning by Differential Screening of a Xenopus cDNA That Encodes a Kinesin-Related Protein

1991 • 143 citations

Cell cycle control of microtubule-based membrane transport and tubule formation in vitro.

1991 • 142 citations

Evidence that myosin does not contribute to force production in chromosome movement.

1982 • 125 citations

Cloning by differential screening of a Xenopus cDNA that encodes a kinesin-related protein.

1991 • 118 citations

Subcellular localization and sequence of sea urchin kinesin heavy chain: evidence for its association with membranes in the mitotic apparatus and interphase cytoplasm [published erratum appears in J Cell Biol 1991 Aug;114(4):following 863]

1991 • 112 citations

Quantitative analysis of sea urchin egg kinesin-driven microtubule motility

1989 • 111 citations

Chemical subdomains within the kinetochore domain of isolated CHO mitotic chromosomes.

1991 • 107 citations

The kinesin superfamily: tails of functional redundancy

1991 • 103 citations

Microinjection of the catalytic fragment of myosin light chain kinase into dividing cells: effects on mitosis and cytokinesis.

1991 • 100 citations

Spatial and temporal control of nonmuscle myosin localization: identification of a domain that is necessary for myosin filament disassembly in vivo.

1991 • 90 citations

Calcium and calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation of a 62 kd protein induces microtubule depolymerization in sea urchin mitotic apparatuses

1988 • 86 citations

Ultraviolet microbeam irradiations of mitotic diatoms: investigation of spindle elongation.

1983 • 85 citations

Spindle Fiber Action and Chromosome Movement

1991 • 62 citations

Separation of meiotic and mitotic effects of claret non-disjunctional on chromosome segregation in Drosophila.

1991 • 49 citations

Micromanipulation studies of the mitotic apparatus in sand dollar eggs

1988 • 44 citations

Specific association of STOP protein with microtubules in vitro and with stable microtubules in mitotic spindles of cultured cells.

1990 • 42 citations

Networks from mutants

1989 • 39 citations

Cytoplasmic dynein: advances in microtubule-based motility

1991 • 33 citations

Antiparallel microtubule interactions: Spindle formation and anaphase B

1990 • 33 citations

Actin and Myosin Biochemistry in Relation to Cytokinesis^a

1990 • 32 citations

Mitotic mechanisms: an alternative view

1986 • 29 citations

Multiple microtubule motors

1990 • 29 citations

Dynamin: a novel microtubule-associated GTPase

1991 • 23 citations

Characterization of mitotic motors by their relative sensitivity to amp-pnp

1989 • 22 citations

Spoke: a 120-kD protein associated with a novel filamentous structure on or near kinetochore microtubules in the mitotic spindle.

1991 • 20 citations

Kinetic analysis of mitotic spindle elongation in vitro

1990 • 8 citations