Publications
Bell JC, Straight AF. Condensing chromosome condensation. Nat Cell Biol. 2015 Jul 31;17(8):964-5. doi: 10.1038/ncb3212. PubMed PMID: 26239527.
Westhorpe FG, Fuller CJ, Straight AF. A cell-free CENP-A assembly system defines the chromatin requirements for centromere maintenance. J Cell Biol. 2015 Jun 22;209(6):789-801. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201503132. PubMed PMID: 26076692.
Amodeo AA, Jukam D, Straight AF*, Skotheim JM*. Histone titration against the genome sets the DNA-to-cytoplasm threshold for the Xenopus midblastula transition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 10;112(10):E1086-95. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1413990112. PubMed PMID: 25713373. *Corresponding Author
Miell MD, Straight AF. Regulating the timing of CENP-A nucleosome assembly by phosphorylation. Dev Cell. 2015 Jan 12;32(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.12.020. PubMed PMID: 25584791.
Westhorpe FG, Straight AF. The centromere: epigenetic control of chromosome segregation during mitosis. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2014 Nov 20;7(1):a015818. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a015818. PubMed PMID: 25414369.
French BT, Straight AF. Swapping CENP-A at the centromere. Nat Cell Biol. 2013Sep;15(9):1028-30. doi: 10.1038/ncb2833. PubMed PMID: 23999616.
Johnson WL, Straight AF. Fluorescent protein applications in microscopy.Methods Cell Biol. 2013;114:99-123. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407761-4.00005-1.PubMed PMID: 23931504.
Kato H, Jiang J, Zhou BR, Rozendaal M, Feng H, Ghirlando R, Xiao TS, Straight AF, Bai Y. A conserved mechanism for centromeric nucleosome recognition bycentromere protein CENP-C. Science. 2013 May 31;340(6136):1110-3. doi:10.1126/science.1235532. PubMed PMID: 23723239; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3763809.
Miell MD, Fuller CJ, Guse A, Barysz HM, Downes A, Owen-Hughes T, Rappsilber J,Straight AF, Allshire RC. CENP-A confers a reduction in height on octamericnucleosomes. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2013 Jun;20(6):763-5. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.2574.Epub 2013 May 5. PubMed PMID: 23644598; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3676451.
Earnshaw WC, Allshire RC, Black BE, Bloom K, Brinkley BR, Brown W, CheesemanIM, Choo KH, Copenhaver GP, Deluca JG, Desai A, Diekmann S, Erhardt S,Fitzgerald-Hayes M, Foltz D, Fukagawa T, Gassmann R, Gerlich DW, Glover DM,Gorbsky GJ, Harrison SC, Heun P, Hirota T, Jansen LE, Karpen G, Kops GJ, LampsonMA, Lens SM, Losada A, Luger K, Maiato H, Maddox PS, Margolis RL, Masumoto H,McAinsh AD, Mellone BG, Meraldi P, Musacchio A, Oegema K, O'Neill RJ, Salmon ED,Scott KC, Straight AF, Stukenberg PT, Sullivan BA, Sullivan KF, Sunkel CE,Swedlow JR, Walczak CE, Warburton PE, Westermann S, Willard HF, Wordeman L,Yanagida M, Yen TJ, Yoda K, Cleveland DW. Esperanto for histones: CENP-A, notCenH3, is the centromeric histone H3 variant. Chromosome Res. 2013Apr;21(2):101-6. doi: 10.1007/s10577-013-9347-y. Epub 2013 Apr 12. PubMed PMID:23580138; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3627038.
Westhorpe FG, Straight AF. Functions of the centromere and kinetochore inchromosome segregation. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2013 Jun;25(3):334-40. doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2013.02.001. Epub 2013 Mar 13. Review. PubMed PMID: 23490282;PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3687001.
Guse A, Fuller CJ, Straight AF. A cell-free system for functional centromereand kinetochore assembly. Nat Protoc. 2012 Oct;7(10):1847-69. doi:10.1038/nprot.2012.112. Epub 2012 Sep 20. PubMed PMID: 23018190; PubMed CentralPMCID: PMC4011387.
Fuller CJ, Straight AF. Imaging nanometre-scale structure in cells using insitu aberration correction. J Microsc. 2012 Oct;248(1):90-101. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2818.2012.03654.x. Epub 2012 Aug 20. PubMed PMID: 22906048; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC3773235.
Westhorpe FG, Straight AF. The split personality of CENP-A nucleosomes. Cell. 2012 Jul 20;150(2):245-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.07.003. PubMed PMID: 22817887;PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3724509.
Hellwig, D., Emmerth, S., Ulbricht, T., Döring, V, Hoischen, C., Martin, R., Samora, C.P., McAinsh, A.D., Carroll, C.W.,Straight, A.F., Meraldi, P., Diekmann, S. (2011) Dynamics of CENP-N kinetochore binding during the cell cycle.J Cell Sci. 124 (Pt 22): 3871-83.
Guse, A., Carroll, C.W., Moree, B., Fuller, C.J. and Straight, A.F. (2011) In vitro centromere and kinetochore assembly on defined chromatin templates.Nature. 477 (7364): 354-8.
Moree B, Meyer CB, Fuller CJ, Straight AF. CENP-C recruits M18BP1 tocentromeres to promote CENP-A chromatin assembly. J Cell Biol. 2011 Sep19;194(6):855-71. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201106079. Epub 2011 Sep 12. PubMed PMID:21911481; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3207292.
Koslover EF, Fuller CJ, Straight AF, Spakowitz AJ. (2010) Local geometry and elasticity in compact chromatin structure.Biophysical Journal. 99 (12): 3941-50.
Carroll CW, Milks KJ, Straight AF. (2010) Dual recognition of CENP-A nucleosomes is required for centromere assembly.J Cell Biol. 189 (7): 1143-55.
Sage, J and Straight AF. (2010) RB's original CIN? Genes Dev. 24 (13): 1329-33.
Fuller CJ and Straight AF. (2009) Image Analysis Benchmarking Methods for High Content Screen Design. J. Microscopy. 17 (17): 145-161.
Milks KJ; Moree B; Straight AF. (2009) Dissection of CENP-C-directed Centromere and Kinetochore Assembly. Mol Biol Cell. 20 (19): 4246-55.
Carroll CW; Silva MC; Godek KM; Jansen LE; Straight AF. (2009) Centromere assembly requires the direct recognitionof CENP-A nucleosomes by CENP-N. Nat Cell Biol. 11 (7): 896-902.
Erhardt S. Mellone BG, Betts CM, Zhang W, Karpen GH, Straight AF. (2008)Genome-wide analysis reveals a cell cycle-dependent mechanism controlling centromere propagation.J Cell Biol. 1; 183(5): 805-18.
Brennan IM, Peters U, Kapoor TM, Straight AF. (2007) Polo-like kinase controls vertebrate spindle elongation and cytokinesis. PLoS ONE. 2 (5): e409.