Publications of Andrea Musacchio

Ciferri, C.; Pasqualato, S.; Screpanti, E.; Varetti, G.; Santaguida, S.; Dos Reis, G.; Maiolica, A.; Polka, J.; De Luca, J. G.; De Wulf, P. et al.; Salek, M.; Rappsilber, J.; Moores, C. A.; Salmon, E. D.; Musacchio, A.: Implications for kinetochore-microtubule attachment from the structure of an engineered Ndc80 complex. CELL 133 (3), pp. 427 - 439 (2008)

Civril, F.; Musacchio, A.: Spindly attachments. GENES & DEVELOPMENT 22 (17), pp. 2302 - 2307 (2008)

Varetti, G.; Musacchio, A.: Correction to the publication "The spindle assembly checkpoint" (Current Biology 18, R591-R595, 2008). CURRENT BIOLOGY 18 (18), p. 1444 - 1444 (2008)

Varetti, G.; Musacchio, A.: The spindle assembly checkpoint. CURRENT BIOLOGY 18 (14), pp. R591 - R595 (2008)

Ciferri, C.; Musacchio, A.; Petrovic, A.: The Ndc80 complex: Hub of kinetochore activity. FEBS LETTERS 581 (15), pp. 2862 - 2869 (2007)

Derewenda, U.; Tarricone, C.; Choi, W. C.; Cooper, D. R.; Lukasik, S.; Perrina, F.; Tripathy, A.; Kim, M. H.; Cafiso, D. S.; Musacchio, A. et al.; Derewenda, Z. S.: The structure of the coiled-coil domain of Ndel1 and the basis of its interaction with Lis1, the causal protein of Miller-Dieker lissencephaly. STRUCTURE 15 (11), pp. 1467 - 1481 (2007)

Mapelli, M.; Massimiliano, L.; Santaguida, S.; Musacchio, A.: The mad2 conformational dimer: Structure and implications for the spindle assembly checkpoint. CELL 131 (4), pp. 730 - 743 (2007)

Mapelli, M.; Musacchio, A.: MAD contortions: conformational dimerization boosts spindle checkpoint signaling. CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 17 (6), pp. 716 - 725 (2007)

Musacchio, A.; Salmon, E. D.: The spindle-assembly checkpoint in space and time. NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY 8 (5), pp. 379 - 393 (2007)

Plyte, S.; Musacchio, A.: PLK1 inhibitors: Setting the mitotic death trap. CURRENT BIOLOGY 17 (8), pp. R280 - R283 (2007)

DeLuca, J. G.; Gall, W. E.; Ciferri, C.; Cimini, D.; Musacchio, A.; Salmon, E. D.: Kinetochore microtubule dynamics and attachment stability are regulated by Hec1. CELL 127 (5), pp. 969 - 982 (2006)

Mapelli, M.; Filipp, F. V.; Rancati, G.; Massimiliano, L.; Nezi, L.; Stier, G.; Hagan, R. S.; Confalonieri, S.; Piatti, S.; Sattler, M. et al.; Musacchio, A.: Determinants of conformational dimerization of Mad2 and its inhibition by p31^comet. EMBO JOURNAL 25 (6), pp. 1273 - 1284 (2006)

Nezi, L.; Rancati, G.; De Antoni, A.; Pasqualato, S.; Piatti, S.; Musacchio, A.: Accumulation of Mad2-Cdc20 complex during spindle checkpoint activation requires binding of open and closed conformers of Mad2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY 174 (1), pp. 39 - 51 (2006)

Penengo, L.; Mapelli, M.; Murachelli, A. G.; Confalonieri, S.; Magri, L.; Musacchio, A.; Di Fiore, P. P.; Polo, S.; Schneider, T. R.: Crystal structure of the ubiquitin binding domains of rabex-5 reveals two modes of interaction with ubiquitin. CELL 124 (6), pp. 1183 - 1195 (2006)

Vink, M.; Simonetta, M.; Transidico, P.; Ferrari, K.; Mapelli, M.; De Antoni, A.; Massimiliano, L.; Ciliberto, A.; Faretta, M.; Salmon, E. D. et al.; Musacchio, A.: In vitro FRAP identifies the minimal requirements for Mad2 kinetochore dynamics. CURRENT BIOLOGY 16 (8), pp. 755 - 766 (2006)

Ciferri, C.; De Luca, J.; Monzani, S.; Ferrari, K. J.; Ristic, D.; Wyman, C.; Stark, H.; Kilmartin, J.; Salmon, E. D.; Musacchio, A.: Architecture of the human Ndc80-Hec1 complex, a critical constituent of the outer kinetochore. JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 280 (32), pp. 29088 - 29095 (2005)

De Antoni, A.; Pearson, C. G.; Cimini, D.; Canman, J. C.; Sala, V.; Nezi, L.; Mapelli, M.; Sironi, L.; Faretta, M.; Salmon, E. D. et al.; Musacchio, A.: The Mad1/Mad2 complex as a template for Mad2 activation in the spindle assembly checkpoint. CURRENT BIOLOGY 15 (3), pp. 214 - 225 (2005)

DeAntoni, A.; Sala, V.; Musacchio, A.: Explaining the oligomerization properties of the spindle assembly checkpoint protein Mad2. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 360 (1455), pp. 637 - 647 (2005)

Sessa, F.; Mapelli, M.; Ciferri, C.; Tarricone, C.; Areces, L. B.; Schneider, T. R.; Stukenberg, P. T.; Musacchio, A.: Mechanism of Aurora B activation by INCENP and inhibition by Hesperadin. MOLECULAR CELL 18 (3), pp. 379 - 391 (2005)

Mapelli, M.; Musacchio, A.: The structural perspective on CDK5. NEUROSIGNALS 12 (4-5), pp. 164 - 172 (2003)