List of works by Hiroyuki Ohkura

14-3-3 regulation of Ncd reveals a new mechanism for targeting proteins to the spindle in oocytes.

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

A PAR-1-dependent orientation gradient of dynamic microtubules directs posterior cargo transport in the Drosophila oocyte

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A microtubule interactome: complexes with roles in cell cycle and mitosis

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A negative loop within the nuclear pore complex controls global chromatin organization.

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A new genetic method for isolating functionally interacting genes: high plo1(+)-dependent mutants and their suppressors define genes in mitotic and septation pathways in fission yeast.

scientific article published on August 2000

A novel microtubule nucleation pathway for meiotic spindle assembly in oocytes

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Abnormal anaphase resolution (aar): a locus required for progression through mitosis in Drosophila.

scientific article published in February 1993

Accurate chromosome segregation by probabilistic self-organisation

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

Cell cycle regulation of microtubule interactomes: multi-layered regulation is critical for the interphase/mitosis transition

scientific article published on 26 July 2013

Centrosome maturation: Aurora lights the way to the poles.

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Cold-sensitive and caffeine-supersensitive mutants of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe dis genes implicated in sister chromatid separation during mitosis

scientific article published on May 1, 1988

Combining microscopy and biochemistry to study meiotic spindle assembly in Drosophila oocytes.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

DNA topoisomerase II is required for condensation and separation of mitotic chromosomes in S. pombe

scientific article published on 01 September 1987

Dgp71WD is required for the assembly of the acentrosomal Meiosis I spindle, and is not a general targeting factor for the γ-TuRC

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Dis1/TOG universal microtubule adaptors - one MAP for all?

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Distinct mechanisms govern the localisation of Drosophila CLIP-190 to unattached kinetochores and microtubule plus-ends.

scientific article published in August 2005

Drosophila CLIP-190 and mammalian CLIP-170 display reduced microtubule plus end association in the nervous system

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Drosophila mutants in the 55 kDa regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 2A show strongly reduced ability to dephosphorylate substrates of p34cdc2.

scientific article published in September 1994

Dual roles of Incenp crucial to the assembly of the acentrosomal metaphase spindle in female meiosis

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Hsp90 is required to localise cyclin B and Msps/ch-TOG to the mitotic spindle in Drosophila and humans.

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Kank Is an EB1 interacting protein that localises to muscle-tendon attachment sites in Drosophila

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Kdm5/Lid Regulates Chromosome Architecture in Meiotic Prophase I Independently of Its Histone Demethylase Activity

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Kinase activity of fission yeast Mph1 is required for Mad2 and Mad3 to stably bind the anaphase promoting complex

scientific article published on 25 January 2012

Lateral and End-On Kinetochore Attachments Are Coordinated to Achieve Bi-orientation in Drosophila Oocytes

scientific article (publication date: October 2015)

Lissencephaly-1 promotes the recruitment of dynein and dynactin to transported mRNAs

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Meiosis-specific stable binding of augmin to acentrosomal spindle poles promotes biased microtubule assembly in oocytes

scientific article (publication date: June 2013)

Meiosis: an overview of key differences from mitosis

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Mini spindles, the XMAP215 homologue, suppresses pausing of interphase microtubules in Drosophila.

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Molecular cloning and developmental expression of the catalytic and 65-kDa regulatory subunits of protein phosphatase 2A in Drosophila

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

NHK-1 phosphorylates BAF to allow karyosome formation in the Drosophila oocyte nucleus

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Non-centrosomal microtubule-organising centres in cold-treated cultured Drosophila cells.

scientific article published on February 2006

Peptide aptamers define distinct EB1- and EB3-binding motifs and interfere with microtubule dynamics.

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Phosphorylation: polo kinase joins an elite club

scientific article (publication date: 2 December 2003)

Polarized transport of Frizzled along the planar microtubule arrays in Drosophila wing epithelium.

scientific article published in February 2006

Polo boxes and Cut23 (Apc8) mediate an interaction between polo kinase and the anaphase-promoting complex for fission yeast mitosis.

scientific article published on 3 January 2002

Polo boxes form a single functional domain that mediates interactions with multiple proteins in fission yeast polo kinase

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Regulation of gene expression during M-G1-phase in fission yeast through Plo1p and forkhead transcription factors.

scientific article published on 4 December 2007

Sister-chromatid separation and protein dephosphorylation in mitosis

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Spotted-dick, a zinc-finger protein of Drosophila required for expression of Orc4 and S phase

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Structural determinants for EB1-mediated recruitment of APC and spectraplakins to the microtubule plus end.

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The 55 kd regulatory subunit of Drosophila protein phosphatase 2A is required for anaphase.

scientific article published in February 1993

The NuRD nucleosome remodelling complex and NHK-1 kinase are required for chromosome condensation in oocytes

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The conserved Schizosaccharomyces pombe kinase plo1, required to form a bipolar spindle, the actin ring, and septum, can drive septum formation in G1 and G2 cells.

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The conserved kinase SRPK regulates karyosome formation and spindle microtubule assembly in Drosophila oocytes

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The fission yeast dis2+ gene required for chromosome disjoining encodes one of two putative type 1 protein phosphatases.

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The meiotic recombination checkpoint suppresses NHK-1 kinase to prevent reorganisation of the oocyte nucleus in Drosophila.

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The microtubule catastrophe promoter Sentin delays stable kinetochore-microtubule attachment in oocytes

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The molecular architecture of the meiotic spindle is remodeled during metaphase arrest in oocytes

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

The phospho-docking protein 14-3-3 regulates microtubule-associated proteins in oocytes including the chromosomal passenger Borealin

scientific article published on 06 June 2022

Wac: a new Augmin subunit required for chromosome alignment but not for acentrosomal microtubule assembly in female meiosis.

scientific article published on 16 March 2009

[Roles of polo homologous kinases in cell division--diversity and conservation].

scientific article published in September 1996