Frank Uhlmann

Summary

Affiliation: American Cancer Society
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A quantitative model for cyclin-dependent kinase control of the cell cycle: revisited
    Frank Uhlmann
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:3572-83. 2011
  2. ncbi Hos1 deacetylates Smc3 to close the cohesin acetylation cycle
    Vanessa Borges
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Mol Cell 39:677-88. 2010
  3. ncbi Identification of cis-acting sites for condensin loading onto budding yeast chromosomes
    Claudio D'Ambrosio
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
    Genes Dev 22:2215-27. 2008
  4. ncbi Stabilization of microtubule dynamics at anaphase onset promotes chromosome segregation
    Toru Higuchi
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Nature 433:171-6. 2005
  5. ncbi Eco1-dependent cohesin acetylation during establishment of sister chromatid cohesion
    Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln sInn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Science 321:563-6. 2008
  6. ncbi Establishment of sister chromatid cohesion at the S. cerevisiae replication fork
    Armelle Lengronne
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Mol Cell 23:787-99. 2006
  7. ncbi Separase cooperates with Zds1 and Zds2 to activate Cdc14 phosphatase in early anaphase
    Ethel Queralt
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, England, UK
    J Cell Biol 182:873-83. 2008
  8. ncbi Downregulation of PP2A(Cdc55) phosphatase by separase initiates mitotic exit in budding yeast
    Ethel Queralt
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Cell 125:719-32. 2006
  9. ncbi Preferential cleavage of chromatin-bound cohesin after targeted phosphorylation by Polo-like kinase
    Nadine C D Hornig
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, London, UK
    EMBO J 23:3144-53. 2004
  10. ncbi Cdc14 phosphatase induces rDNA condensation and resolves cohesin-independent cohesion during budding yeast anaphase
    Matt Sullivan
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Cell 117:471-82. 2004

Collaborators

  • Stefan Weitzer
  • Ethel Queralt
  • Bela Novak
  • Karl Peter Hopfner
  • Yoshinori Watanabe
  • Christine K Schmidt
  • Lidia Lopez-Serra
  • Armelle Lengronne
  • Katsuhiko Shirahige
  • Matt Sullivan
  • Sandra López-Avilés
  • Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar
  • Claudio D'Ambrosio
  • Yuki Katou
  • Vanessa Borges
  • Gavin Kelly
  • Maria T Ocampo-Hafalla
  • Rahul Thadani
  • Nicola O'Reilly
  • Toru Higuchi
  • Nadine C D Hornig
  • Céline Bouchoux
  • Lesia Mirchenko
  • Sebastian Heeger
  • Helen Flynn
  • Chris Lehane
  • Mark Skehel
  • John Mc Intyre
  • Maria T Ocampo Hafalla
  • Takehiko Itoh
  • Adrian Charbin
  • Orsolya Kapuy
  • Philip East
  • Trisha N Davis
  • Brian E Snydsman
  • Eric G D Muller
  • John McIntyre
  • Yutaka Kanoh
  • Saori Mori
  • Gavin P Kelly
  • Shihori Yokobayashi
  • Vittorio L Katis
  • Thomas Porstmann

Detail Information

Publications32

  1. ncbi A quantitative model for cyclin-dependent kinase control of the cell cycle: revisited
    Frank Uhlmann
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:3572-83. 2011
    ..We propose a molecular explanation for quantitative Cdk control, based on thresholds imposed by Cdk-counteracting phosphatases, and discuss its implications...
  2. ncbi Hos1 deacetylates Smc3 to close the cohesin acetylation cycle
    Vanessa Borges
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Mol Cell 39:677-88. 2010
    ..Our results complete the description of an Smc3 acetylation cycle and provide unexpected insight into the importance of de novo Smc3 acetylation for cohesion establishment...
  3. ncbi Identification of cis-acting sites for condensin loading onto budding yeast chromosomes
    Claudio D'Ambrosio
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
    Genes Dev 22:2215-27. 2008
    ..This reveals that TFIIIC-binding sites, including tRNA genes, constitute a hitherto unknown chromosomal feature with important implications for chromosome architecture during both interphase and mitosis...
  4. ncbi Stabilization of microtubule dynamics at anaphase onset promotes chromosome segregation
    Toru Higuchi
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Nature 433:171-6. 2005
    ..Cdc14 promotes localization of microtubule-stabilizing proteins to the anaphase spindle, and dephosphorylation of the kinetochore component Ask1 contributes to both the silencing of microtubule turnover and successful anaphase A...
  5. ncbi Eco1-dependent cohesin acetylation during establishment of sister chromatid cohesion
    Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln sInn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Science 321:563-6. 2008
    ..Our results indicate that Eco1 modifies cohesin to stabilize sister chromatid cohesion in parallel with a cohesion establishment reaction that is in principle Eco1-independent...
  6. ncbi Establishment of sister chromatid cohesion at the S. cerevisiae replication fork
    Armelle Lengronne
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Mol Cell 23:787-99. 2006
    ..This provides evidence for cohesion establishment in the context of replication forks and imposes constraints on the mechanism involved...
  7. ncbi Separase cooperates with Zds1 and Zds2 to activate Cdc14 phosphatase in early anaphase
    Ethel Queralt
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, England, UK
    J Cell Biol 182:873-83. 2008
    ..Our results suggest that these proteins may act as separase-regulated PP2A(Cdc55) inhibitors...
  8. ncbi Downregulation of PP2A(Cdc55) phosphatase by separase initiates mitotic exit in budding yeast
    Ethel Queralt
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Cell 125:719-32. 2006
    ..These findings allow us to present a new quantitative model for mitotic exit in budding yeast...
  9. ncbi Preferential cleavage of chromatin-bound cohesin after targeted phosphorylation by Polo-like kinase
    Nadine C D Hornig
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, London, UK
    EMBO J 23:3144-53. 2004
    ..Polo is bound to chromosomes independently of cohesin's presence, providing a possible explanation for chromosome-specific cohesin modification and targeting of separase cleavage...
  10. ncbi Cdc14 phosphatase induces rDNA condensation and resolves cohesin-independent cohesion during budding yeast anaphase
    Matt Sullivan
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Cell 117:471-82. 2004
    ..Independently of condensation, Cdc14 induces condensin-dependent resolution of cohesin-independent rDNA linkage. Cdc14-dependent sister chromatid resolution at the rDNA could introduce a temporal order to chromosome segregation...
  11. ncbi In vivo analysis of cohesin architecture using FRET in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    John Mc Intyre
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
    EMBO J 26:3783-93. 2007
    ..Using FRET, we did not observe interactions between more than one cohesin complex in vivo...
  12. ncbi Condensin-dependent rDNA decatenation introduces a temporal pattern to chromosome segregation
    Claudio D'Ambrosio
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Curr Biol 18:1084-9. 2008
    ..Regulation of decatenation therefore provides a means to fine tune the segregation timing of chromosomes in mitosis...
  13. ncbi Studies on substrate recognition by the budding yeast separase
    Matt Sullivan
    Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    J Biol Chem 279:1191-6. 2004
    ..This suggests that separase recognizes both a cleavage site consensus sequence as well as features outside the cleavage site...
  14. ncbi Cohesin relocation from sites of chromosomal loading to places of convergent transcription
    Armelle Lengronne
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Nature 430:573-8. 2004
    ..Cohesin localization to places of convergent transcription is conserved in fission yeast, suggesting that it is a common feature of eukaryotic chromosomes...
  15. ncbi A model for ATP hydrolysis-dependent binding of cohesin to DNA
    Stefan Weitzer
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
    Curr Biol 13:1930-40. 2003
    ..The mechanism by which cohesin binds to DNA, and how sister chromatid cohesion is established, is unknown...
  16. ncbi The mechanism of sister chromatid cohesion
    Frank Uhlmann
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Exp Cell Res 296:80-5. 2004
    ..To understand how cohesin links newly synthesised replication products, biochemical assays to study the enzymology of cohesin will be required...
  17. ncbi Sli15(INCENP) dephosphorylation prevents mitotic checkpoint reengagement due to loss of tension at anaphase onset
    Lesia Mirchenko
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London, UK
    Curr Biol 20:1396-401. 2010
    ..Our results suggest that Sli15(INCENP) dephosphorylation is part of an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that prevents the mitotic checkpoint from reengaging when tension between sister chromatids is lost at anaphase onset...
  18. ncbi Chromosome biology: the crux of the ring
    Frank Uhlmann
    Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Curr Biol 16:R102-5. 2006
    ..New evidence supports the idea that these rings topologically encircle DNA. Hints also emerge as to what it may take for DNA to enter the ring...
  19. ncbi A quantitative model for ordered Cdk substrate dephosphorylation during mitotic exit
    Céline Bouchoux
    Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, London WC2A 3LY, UK
    Cell 147:803-14. 2011
    ..This provides an example and a mechanistic explanation for a quantitative model of cell-cycle progression...
  20. ncbi What is your assay for sister-chromatid cohesion?
    Frank Uhlmann
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
    EMBO J 26:4609-18. 2007
  21. ncbi Displacement and re-accumulation of centromeric cohesin during transient pre-anaphase centromere splitting
    Maria T Ocampo Hafalla
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Chromosoma 116:531-44. 2007
    ..These findings provide new insights into cohesin behaviour at centromeres...
  22. ncbi Irreversibility of mitotic exit is the consequence of systems-level feedback
    Sandra López-Avilés
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Nature 459:592-5. 2009
    ..Our findings demonstrate that the unidirectionality of mitotic exit is not the consequence of proteolysis but of systems-level feedback required to maintain the cell cycle in a new stable state...
  23. ncbi Conserved features of cohesin binding along fission yeast chromosomes
    Christine K Schmidt
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Genome Biol 10:R52. 2009
    ..How, and where, cohesin binds to chromosomes are still poorly understood, and recent genome-wide surveys have revealed an apparent disparity between its chromosomal association patterns in different organisms...
  24. ncbi A matter of choice: the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion
    Frank Uhlmann
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
    EMBO Rep 10:1095-102. 2009
    ..I propose that the establishment of cohesion equates to the selective stabilization of those cohesin-mediated DNA interactions that link sister chromatids in the wake of replication forks...
  25. ncbi Cohesin loading and sliding
    Maria T Ocampo-Hafalla
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
    J Cell Sci 124:685-91. 2011
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  26. ncbi Cell cycle: the art of multi-tasking
    Sandra López-Avilés
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Curr Biol 20:R101-3. 2010
    ..This enzyme is known to orchestrate additional mitotic events and we now gain new insight into how it promotes cytokinesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans...
  27. ncbi A non-proteolytic function of separase links the onset of anaphase to mitotic exit
    Matt Sullivan
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, London, WC2A 3PX, UK
    Nat Cell Biol 5:249-54. 2003
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  28. ncbi Budding yeast Wapl controls sister chromatid cohesion maintenance and chromosome condensation
    Lidia Lopez-Serra
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
    Curr Biol 23:64-9. 2013
    ..Thus, as a conserved regulator of cohesin dynamics on chromosomes, Wapl controls cohesion maintenance after its establishment in S phase and adjusts the chromosome condensation status...
  29. ncbi Facile synthesis of budding yeast a-factor and its use to synchronize cells of α mating type
    Nicola O'Reilly
    Peptide Synthesis Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, UK
    Yeast 29:233-40. 2012
    ..Our protocol makes a-factor widely accessible, extending the ease of cell cycle synchronization to budding yeast cells of both mating types and facilitating the study of a-factor signalling...
  30. ncbi Condensin, chromatin crossbarring and chromosome condensation
    Rahul Thadani
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
    Curr Biol 22:R1012-21. 2012
    ..We compare models of bacterial and eukaryotic condensins in order to uncover conserved mechanistic principles of condensin action and to propose a model for mitotic chromosome condensation...
  31. ncbi Chromosome cohesion and separation: from men and molecules
    Frank Uhlmann
    Lincoln s Inn Fields Laboratories, Cancer Research UK, 44 Lincoln s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
    Curr Biol 13:R104-14. 2003
    ..Studies on separase have revealed new levels of regulation of chromosome segregation...
  32. ncbi Chromosome segregation: playing polo in prophase
    Stefan Weitzer
    Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3PX, London, United Kingdom
    Dev Cell 2:381-2. 2002
    ..A paper in the March issue of Molecular Cell identifies Polo-like kinase as a key regulator for the first step that releases much of cohesin during prophase...