Publications

Yam, C., Y. He, D. Zhang, K. Chiam and S. Oliferenko. 2011. Divergent Strategies for Controlling the Nuclear Membrane Satisfy Geometric Constraints during Nuclear Division. Current Biology 21: 1314-1319. Highlighted article.

Thadani, R., D. Huang and S. Oliferenko. 2011. Robust polarity specification operates above a threshold of microtubule dynamicity. Cytoskeleton 68: 290–299.

Castagnetti, S., S. Oliferenko and P. Nurse. 2010. Fission Yeast Cells Undergo Nuclear Division in the Absence of Spindle Microtubules. PLoS Biology 8: e1000512

Zhang, D., A. Vjestica and S. Oliferenko. 2010. The Cortical ER Network Limits the Permissive Zone for Actomyosin Ring assembly. Current Biology 20: 1029-1034. Highlighted in Current Biology, 20:R484-486.

Thadani, R., Y.C. Ling and S. Oliferenko. 2009. The Fission Yeast TACC Protein Mia1p Stabilizes Microtubule Arrays by Length-Independent Crosslinking. Current Biology 19: 1861–1868.

Ling, Y.C, A. Vjestica and S. Oliferenko. 2009. Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of the TACC protein Mia1p/Alp7p is required for remodeling of microtubule arrays during the cell cycle. PLoS ONE. 4: e6255.

Oliferenko, S., T.G. Chew and M. Balasubramanian. 2009. Positioning cytokinesis. Genes & Development. 23: 660-674.

Mishra, M. and S. Oliferenko. 2008. Cytokinesis: Catch and Drag. Current Biology 18: R247-250.

Vjestica, A., X.-Z. Tang and S. Oliferenko. 2008. The actomyosin ring recruits early secretory compartments to the division site in fission yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell 19: 1125-1138.

Huang, Y., P.T. Tran, S. Oliferenko and M.K. Balasubramanian. 2007. Assembly of Microtubules and Actomyosin Rings in the Absence of Nuclei and Spindle Pole Bodies Revealed by a Novel Genetic Method. PloS One 7: e618.

Zheng,L., C. Schwartz, V. Magidson, A. Khodjakov and S. Oliferenko.2007. The Spindle Pole Bodies Facilitate Nuclear Envelope Division during Closed Mitosis in Fission Yeast. PLoS Biology. 5: e170. [doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050170]

Zheng, L., C. Schwartz, L. Wee and S. Oliferenko. 2006. The Fission Yeast Transforming Acidic Coiled Coil-related Protein Mia1p/Alp7p Is Required for Formation and Maintenance of Persistent Microtubule-organizing
Centers at the Nuclear Envelope. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17: 2212-2222.

Rajagopalan, S., A. Bimbo, M. Balasubramanian and S. Oliferenko. 2004. A potential tension sensing mechanism that ensures timely anaphase onset upon metaphase spindle orientation. Current Biology. 14 : 69-74.

Wang H, Oliferenko, S. , and Balasubramanian, M.K. (2003). Cytokinesis: relative alignment of the cell division apparatus and the mitotic spindle. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 15 : 82-87.

Oliferenko S. and M. Balasubramanian. Astral microtubules monitor metaphase spindle alignment in fission yeast. Nature Cell Biology, 2002 October; 4: 816-820.

Liu J., Tang X., Wang H. Y., Oliferenko S. and M. Balasubramanian. The localization of the integral membrane protein Cps1p to the cell division site is dependent on the actomyosin ring and the septation-inducing network in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Mol. Biol. Cell, 2002 March 22; 13: 989-1000.

Oliferenko S. and M. Balasubramanian. Cell cycle: the Flp side of Cdc14. Current Biology, 2001 October 30; 11:R872-874.

Schwärzler C., Oliferenko S. and U. Günthert. Variant isoforms of CD44 are required in early thymocyte development. Eur. J. Immunology, 2001 October; 31:2997-3005.

Oliferenko S. , Kaverina I., J. V. Small and Huber L. A. Hyaluronic acid (HA) binding to CD44 activates Rac1 and induces lamellipodia outgrowth. J. Cell Biol. 2000 March 20; 148(6):1159-1164.

Oliferenko S. , Paiha K., Harder T., Gerke V., Schwärzler C., Schwarz H., Beug H., Günthert U. and Huber L.A. Analysis of CD44-containing lipid rafts: recruitment of annexin II and stabilization by the actin cytoskeleton. J. Cell Biol. 1999 August 23; 146(4):843-854.

Legras S., Günthert U., Stauder R., Curt F., Oliferenko S. , Kluin-Nelemans C., Marie J.P., Vernant J. P., Proctor S., Chomienne C., Pico J.L., Jasmin C. and Smadia-Joffe F.: A strong expression of CD44-6v is associated with poor prognosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Blood. 1998 May 1;91(9):3401-3413.