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WEEK 6

L1: Introduction to the Cell Cycle PPT PDF

L2: Cytoskeleton Basics and Microtubule Dynamics PPT (warning:huge) PDF

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Bacterial ancestry of actin and tubulin (review)
2
Microtubule Polymerization Dynamics (review)
3
The spindle: a dynamic assembly of microtubules and motors (review)
4
Kin I Kinesins Are Microtubule-Destabilizing Enzymes
  DISCUSSION PAPERS:
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Identification of pathways regulating cell size and cell-cycle progression by RNAi
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL AT: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7079/suppinfo/nature04469.html
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RNA interference pinpoints regulators of cell size and the cell cycle (minireview)
WEEK 7

L3: Microtubule Structure, Organizers, and Motors PPT PDF

L4: Actin and Myosin PPT PDF

7 High-Resolution Model of the Microtubule
8 Molecular motors (review)
9 Dynamics and mechanics of the microtubule plus end (review)
10 Centrosome Duplication: A Centriolar Pas de Deux (review)
11 A single myosin head moves along an actin filament with regular steps of 5.3 nanometres
12 Control of cell shape in bacteria: helical, actin-like filaments in bacillus subtilis
13 Molecular dynamics of cyclically contracting insect flight muscle in vivo
DISCUSSION PAPER:
14 Control of microtubule dynamics by the antagonistic activities of XMAP215 and XKCM1 in Xenopus egg extracts
WEEK 8

L5: Chromosomes and the Cell Cycle: Interphase PPT PDF

L6: Chromosomes and the Cell Cycle: Nuclear Organization and Mitosis PPT PDF

15 Beyond the Sequence: Cellular Organization of Genome Function (review)
16 At the heart of the chromosome: SMC proteins in action (review)
17 Noncoding RNAs in gene silencing (review)
18 Chromatin Modifications and Their Function (review)
19 Propagation of centromeric chromatin requires exit from mitosis
20 Perturbation of Nuclear Architecture by Long-Distance Chromosome Interactions
DISCUSSION PAPER:
21 Loss of the Suv39h Histone Methyltransferases Impairs Mammalian Heterochromatin and Genome Stability
WEEK 9

L7: Chromosomes and the Cell Cycle: Centromeres and Spinles PPT PDF

L8: Chromosomes and the Cell Cycle: Anaphase and Cytokinesis PPT PDF

22 The spindle: a dynamic assembly of microtubules and motors (review)
23 Chromosomes Can Congress to the Metaphase Plate Before Biorientation
24 The Xenopus Chromokinesin Xkid Is Essential for Metaphase Chromosome Alignment and Must Be Degraded to Allow Anaphase Chromosome Movement
25 A cytokinesis furrow is positioned by two consecutive signals
26 Importin b Is a Mitotic Target of the Small GTPase Ran in Spindle Assembly
27 Formation of a Dynamic Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface through Assembly of the Dam1 Ring Complex
DISCUSSION PAPER:
28 Sister-chromatid separation at anaphase onset is promoted by cleavage of the cohesin subunit Scc1
News and Views: Cell cycle: A snip separates sisters
EXTRAS:
29 Cytokinesis in Eukaryotes (review)
30 Functional genomic analysis of cell division in C. elegans using RNAi of genes on chromosome III
WEEK 10

L9: Regulation of the Cell Cycle: Mitosis PPT PDF

L10: Regulation of the Cell Cycle: G1/S and Checkpoints PPT PDF

31 Multiple levels of cyclin specificity in cell-cycle control (review)
32 Cyclin specificity in the phosphorylation of cyclin-dependent kinase substrates
33 The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome: a machine designed to destroy (review)
34 Mammalian G1- and S-phase checkpoints in response to DNA damage (review)
35 Microtubule capture by CENP-E silences BubR1-dependent mitotic checkpoint signaling
DISCUSSION PAPER:
36 The roles of Fzy/Cdc20 and Fzr/Cdh1 in regulating the destruction of cyclin B in space and time
EXTRAS:
37 A tense time for the nuclear envelope (minireview)
38 Hartwell Nobel Lecture
39 Nurse Nobel Lecture
40 The reversibility of mitotic exit in vertebrate cells