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López-Escobar L, Hänisch B, Halliday C, Ishii M, Akiyoshi B, Dean S, Sunter JD, Wheeler RJ, Gull K. (2022) Stage-specific transcription activator ESB1 regulates monoallelic antigen expression in Trypanosoma brucei. Nature Microbiology
Ishii M and Akiyoshi B (2022) Targeted protein degradation using deGradFP in Trypanosoma brucei. Wellcome Open Research
Ishii M and Akiyoshi B (2022) Plasticity in centromere organization and kinetochore composition: lessons from diversity. Current Opinion in Cell Biology
Ludzia P and Akiyoshi B (2021) Illuminating the mechanism of monogenic antigen expression in trypanosomes. Nature Reviews Microbiology
Marcianò G, Ishii M, Nerusheva OO, and Akiyoshi B. (2021) Kinetoplastid kinetochore kinases KKT2 and KKT3 have unique centromere localization. Journal of Cell Biology (6TLX, 6LTY)
Tromer EC, Wemyss TA, Ludzia P, Waller RF, and Akiyoshi B (2021) Repurposing of synaptonemal complex proteins for kinetochores in Kinetoplastida. Open Biology 11: 210049
Ludzia P, Lowe ED, Marcianò G, Mohammed S, Redfield C, and Akiyoshi B (2021) Structural characterisation of KKT4, an unconventional microtubule-binding kinetochore protein. Structure doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2021.04.004 (6ZPM, 6ZPJ, 6ZPK)
Akiyoshi B (2020, Preprint) Analysis of a Mad2 homolog in Trypanosoma brucei provides possible hints on the origin of the spindle checkpoint. bioRxiv
Ludzia P, Akiyoshi B, and Redfield C (2020). 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments for the microtubule-binding domain of the kinetoplastid kinetochore protein KKT4 from Trypanosoma brucei. Biomolecular NMR Assignments 14: 309–315
Ishii M and Akiyoshi B (2020) Characterization of unconventional kinetochore kinases KKT10 and KKT19 in Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Cell Science 133(8): jcs240978
Nerusheva OO, Ludzia P, and Akiyoshi B. (2019) Identification of four unconventional kinetoplastid kinetochore proteins KKT22–25 in Trypanosoma brucei. Open Biology 9: 190236
Akiyoshi B. (2019) Evolution: A Mosaic-type Centromere in an Early-Diverging Fungus. Current Biology 29: R1184-R1186
Llauró A, Hayashi H, Bailey ME, Wilson A, Ludzia P, Asbury CL, and Akiyoshi B. (2018) The kinetoplastid kinetochore protein KKT4 is an unconventional microtubule tip-coupling protein. Journal of Cell Biology 217(11): 3886-3900
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Nerusheva OO and Akiyoshi B. (2016) Divergent polo box domains underpin the unique kinetoplastid kinetochore. Open Biology 6: 150206
Akiyoshi B. (2016) The unconventional kinetoplastid kinetochore: from discovery toward functional understanding. Biochemical Society Transactions 44(5): 1201-1217
Akiyoshi B and Gull K. (2014) Discovery of unconventional kinetochores in kinetoplastids. Cell 156(6): 1247-58
Akiyoshi B and Gull K. (2013) Evolutionary cell biology of chromosome segregation: insights from trypanosomes. Open Biology 3(5): 130023
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