Mar Carmena

The cellular geography of Aurora kinases (2003)

Carmena, Mar, Earnshaw, William C

Aurora is the name given to a family of highly conserved protein kinases with essential roles in many aspects of cell division. Yeasts have a single Aurora kinase, whereas mammals have three: Aurora...

The cellular geography of Aurora kinases (2003)

Carmena, Mar, Earnshaw, William C

Aurora is the name given to a family of highly conserved protein kinases with essential roles in many aspects of cell division. Yeasts have a single Aurora kinase, whereas mammals have three: Aurora...

Drosophila Polo Kinase Is Required for Cytokinesis

Carmena, Mar, Riparbelli, Maria Giovanna, Minestrini, Gianluca, Tavares, Álvaro M., Adams, Richard, Callaini, Giuliano, ...

A number of lines of evidence point to a predominance of cytokinesis defects in spermatogenesis in hypomorphic alleles of the Drosophila polo gene. In the pre-meiotic mitoses, cytokinesis defects...

A perfect funeral with no corpse

Earnshaw, William C., Carmena, Mar

“Indeed, the role in mitosis of the chromosome arms, which carry most of the genetic material, may be compared with that of a corpse at a funeral: they provide the reason for the proceedings but do...

MAST/Orbit has a role in microtubule–kinetochore attachment and is essential for chromosome alignment and maintenance of spindle bipolarity

Maiato, Helder, Sampaio, Paula, Lemos, Catarina L., Findlay, John, Carmena, Mar, Earnshaw, William C., ...

Multiple asters (MAST)/Orbit is a member of a new family of nonmotor microtubule-associated proteins that has been previously shown to be required for the organization of the mitotic spindle. Here we...

Essential Roles of Drosophila Inner Centromere Protein (Incenp) and Aurora B in Histone H3 Phosphorylation, Metaphase Chromosome Alignment, Kinetochore Disjunction, and Chromosome Segregation

Adams, Richard R., Maiato, Helder, Earnshaw, William C., Carmena, Mar

We have performed a biochemical and double-stranded RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) analysis of the role of two chromosomal passenger proteins, inner centromere protein (INCENP) and aurora B kinase,...