Alina M Vrabioiu

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The majority of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae septin complexes do not exchange guanine nucleotides
    Alina M Vrabioiu
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:3111-8. 2004
  2. ncbi Structural insights into yeast septin organization from polarized fluorescence microscopy
    Alina M Vrabioiu
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Nature 443:466-9. 2006
  3. ncbi Symmetry of septin hourglass and ring structures
    Alina M Vrabioiu
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Mol Biol 372:37-49. 2007

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi The majority of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae septin complexes do not exchange guanine nucleotides
    Alina M Vrabioiu
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:3111-8. 2004
    ..We conclude that bound GTP and GDP play a structural, rather then regulatory, role for the majority of septins in proliferating cells as GTP does for alpha-tubulin...
  2. ncbi Structural insights into yeast septin organization from polarized fluorescence microscopy
    Alina M Vrabioiu
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Nature 443:466-9. 2006
    ..These data resolve a long-standing controversy in the field and provide strong evidence that septins have a mechanical function in cell division...
  3. ncbi Symmetry of septin hourglass and ring structures
    Alina M Vrabioiu
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Mol Biol 372:37-49. 2007
    ..We discuss possible anisotropic processes that could break the septin symmetry and establish the essential bud-neck asymmetry...