Schildhauer F, Ryl PSJ, Lauer SM, Lenz S, Barlas AB, Ouzounidis VR, Jeffrey K, Marcu DC, O’Reilly FJ, Graziadei A, Stuiver M, Schmidt K, Ewers H, Spahn CMT, Karaca E, Busch KE, Cheerambathur D, Schwefel D and Rappsilber J. An NADH-controlled gatekeeper of ATP synthase. Molecular Cell 85, 2567-2580 (2025). (link)
Alves Domigos H, Green M, Ouzounidis VO, Finlayson C, Prevo B and Cheerambathur DK. The kinetochore protein KNL-1 regulates the actin cytoskeleton to control dendrite branching. Journal of Cell Biology 224, 1-21 (2025). (link)
Carvalho C, Moreira M, Barbosa DJ, Chan FY, Koehnen CB, Teixeira V, Rocha H, Green M, Carvalho AX, Cheerambathur DK, Gassmann R. ZYG-12/Hook’s dual role as dynein adaptor for early endosomes and nuclei is regulated by alternative splicing of its cargo binding domain. Molecular Biology of the Cell 36, 1-11 (2025). (link)
Blow F, Jeffrey K, Chow FW, Nikonorova IA, Barr MM, Cook AG, Prevo B, Cheerambathur DK, Buck AH. SID-2 is a conserved extracellular vesicle protein that is not associated with environmental RNAi in parasitic nematodes. Open Biology 14, 1-10 (2024). (link)
Prevo B, Cheerambathur DK, Earnshaw WC, Desai A. Kinetochore dynein is sufficient to biorient chromosomes and remodel the outer kinetochore. Nature Communications 15, 1-13 (2024). (link)
Ouzounidis VO, Green M, de Ceuninck van Capelle C, Gebhardt C, Crellin H, Finlayson C, Prevo B and Cheerambathur DK. The outer kinetochore proteins KNL-1 and Ndc80 complex are required to pattern the central nervous system. Molecular Biology of the Cell 35, 1-14 (2024). (link)
Ouzounidis VO, Prevo B and Cheerambathur DK. Sculpting the dendritic landscape: actin, microtubules, and the art of arborization. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 84, 102214 (2023). Invited Review. (link)
Taylor S, Bel Borja L, Soubigou F, Cheerambathur DK and Pelisch F. BUB-1 and CENP-C recruit PLK-1 to control chromosome alignment and segregation during meiosis I in C. elegans oocytes. Elife 9, e84057 (2023). (link)
Sobral, AF, Chan F, Norman MJ, Osório DS, Dias AB, Ferreira V, Barbosa DJ, Cheerambathur D, Gassmann R, Belmonte JM and Carvalho AX. Plastin and spectrin cooperate to stabilize the actomyosin cortex during cytokinesis. Current Biology 31, 5415-5428 (2021). (link)
Bel Borja L, Soubigou F, Taylor S, Bringas C, Budrewicz J, Lara-Gonzalez P, Sorensen-Turpin C, Bembenek JN, Cheerambathur DK and Pelisch F. BUB-1 targets PP2A:B56 to regulate meiotic chromosome segregation in C. elegans oocytes. Elife 9, e65307 (2021). (link)
Bai X, Melesse M, Sorensen Turpin CG, Sloan DE, Chen CY, Wang WC, Lee PY, Simmons JR, Nebenfuehr B, Mitchell D, Klebanow LR, Mattson N, Betzig E, Chen BC, Cheerambathur D and Bembenek JN. Aurora B functions at the apical surface after specialized cytokinesis during morphogenesis in C. elegans. Development 147, 1-16 (2020). (link)
Cheerambathur DK, Prevo B, Chow T, Hattersley N, Wang S, Zhao Z, Kim T, Gerson-Gurwitz A, Oegema K, Green R and Desai A. The kinetochore-microtubule coupling machinery is repurposed in sensory nervous system morphogenesis. Developmental Cell 48, 864-872 (2019). (link)
Martino L, Morchoisne-Bolhy S, Cheerambathur DK, Van Hove L, Dumont J, Joly N, Desai A, Doye V and Pintard L. Channel nucleoporins recruit PLK-1 to nuclear pore complexes to direct nuclear envelope breakdown in C. elegans. Developmental Cell 43, 151-171 (2017). (link)
Wang S, Tang NH, Lara-Gonzalez P, Zhao Z, Cheerambathur DK, Prevo B, Chisholm AD, Desai A and Oegema K. A toolkit for GFP-mediated tissue-specific protein degradation in C. elegans. Development 144, 2694-2701 (2017). (link)
Cheerambathur DK, Prevo B, Hattersley N, Lewellyn L, Corbett KD, Oegema K and Desai A. Dephosphorylation of the Ndc80 tail stabilizes kinetochore-microtubule attachments via the Ska complex. Developmental Cell 41, 424-437 (2017). (link)
Gama JB, Pereira C, Simões PA, Celestino R, Reis RM, Barbosa DJ, Pires HR, Carvalho C, Amorim J, Carvalho AX, Cheerambathur DK and Gassmann R. Molecular mechanism of dynein recruitment to kinetochores by the Rod-Zw10-Zwilch complex and Spindly. The Journal of Cell Biology 216, 943-960 (2017). (link)
Hattersley N, Cheerambathur D, Moyle M, Stefanutti M, Richardson A, Lee KY, Dumont J, Oegema K and Desai A. A nucleoporin docks protein phosphatase 1 to direct meiotic chromosome segregation and nuclear assembly. Developmental Cell 38, 463-477 (2016). (link)
Cheerambathur DK and Desai A. Linked in: formation and regulation of microtubule attachments during chromosome segregation. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 26, 113-122 (2014). (link)
Cheerambathur DK, Gassmann R, Cook B, Oegema K and Desai A. Crosstalk between microtubule attachment complexes ensures accurate chromosome segregation. Science 342, 1239-1242 (2013). (link)
Espeut J, Cheerambathur DK, Krenning L, Oegema K and Desai A. Microtubule binding by KNL-1 contributes to spindle checkpoint silencing at the kinetochore. The Journal of Cell Biology 196, 469-482 (2012). (link)
Sommi P, Cheerambathur D, Brust-Mascher I and Mogilner A. Actomyosin-dependent cortical dynamics contributes to the prophase force-balance in the early Drosophila embryo. PLoS One 6, e18366. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018366 (2011). (link)
Cheerambathur DK, Brust-Mascher I, Civelekoglu-Scholey G and Scholey JM. Dynamic partitioning of mitotic kinesin-5 cross-linkers between microtubule-bound and freely diffusing states. The Journal of Cell Biology 182, 429-436 (2008). (link)
Cheerambathur DK, Civelekoglu-Scholey G, Brust-Mascher I, Sommi P, Mogilner A and Scholey JM. Quantitative analysis of an anaphase B switch: predicted role for a microtubule catastrophe gradient. The Journal of Cell Biology 177, 995-1004 (2007). (link)
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