The Larochelle Lab
at Clark University





Publications Related to Research Objective

Abysalh, J.C., Kuchnicki, L.L., and Larochelle, D.A. (2003). The identification of Pats1, a novel gene locus required for cytokinesis in Dictyostelium discoideum. Mol. Biol. Cell 14, 14-25.

De Lozanne, A., and Spudich, J.A. (1987). Disruption of the Dictyostelium myosin heavy chain gene by homologous recombination. Science 236, 1086-1091.

Glotzer, M. (2005). The molecular requirements for cytokinesis. Science 307, 1735-1739.

Guertin, D.A., Trautmann, S., and McCollum, D. (2002). Cytokinesis in eukaryotes. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 66, 155-178.

Kiehart, D.P., Mabuchi, I., and Inoué, S. (1982). Evidence that myosin does not contribute to force production in chromosome movement. J. Cell Biol. 94, 165-178.

Kwak, E., Gerald, N., Larochelle, D.A., Vithalani, K.K., Niswonger, M.L., Maready, M., and De Lozanne, A. (1999). LvsA, a protein related to the mouse beige protein, is required for cytokinesis in Dictyostelium. Mol Biol Cell 10, 4429-4439.

Larochelle, D.A., Vithalani, K.K., and De Lozanne, A. (1996). A novel member of the Rho family of small GTP-binding proteins is specifically required for cytokinesis. J. Cell Biol. 133, 1321-1329

Larochelle, D.A., Vithalani, K.K., and De Lozanne, A. (1997). The role of Dictyostelium racE in cytokinesis: Mutational analysis and localization studies by use of green fluorescent protein. Mol. Biol. Cell 8, 935-944.

Mabuchi, I., and Okuno, M. (1977). The effect of myosin antibody on the division of starfish blastomeres. J. Cell Biol. 74, 251-263.

Robinson, D.N., Girard, K.D., Octtaviani, E., and Reichl, E.M. (2002). Dictyostelium cytokinesis: from molecules to mechanics. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 23, 719-727

Uyeda, T.Q., Nagasaki, A., and Yumura, S. (2004). Multiple parallelisms in animal cytokinesis. Int Rev Cytol 240, 377-432


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