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Selected publications

• Albee, A.J., Tao, W. and Wiese, C. (2006). Phosphorylation of Maskin by Aurora-A is Regulated by RanGTP and Importin β. Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 281, Issue 50, 38293-38301

• Wiese, C. and Zheng, Y. (2006). Microtubule nucleation: γ-tubulin and beyond, Journal of Cell Science, 119, 4143-4153

• Porter, F.W., Bochkov, Y.A., Albee, A.J., Wiese, C. and Palmenberg, A.C. (2006). A picornavirus protein interacts with Ran-GTPase and disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport. PNAS, August 15, vol. 103, no. 33, 12417–12422

• Wiese, C. and O’Brien, L.L. (2006). What’s so Bor(a)ing about Aurora-A Activation? Developmental Cell 11, 133–139

• O’Brien, L.L., and Wiese, C. (2006). TPX2 is required for post-mitotic nuclear assembly in cell-free Xenopus egg extracts. J. Cell Biol. 173, 685-694.

• O’Brien, L. L., Albee, A. J., Liu, L., Tao, W. Dobrzyn, P., Lizarraga, S. B., and Wiese, C. (2005). The Xenopus TACC homologue, maskin, functions in mitotic spindle assembly. Mol. Biol. Cell 16:2836-2847.

• Tsai, M.-Y., Wiese, C., Cao, K., Martin, O., Donovan, P., Ruderman, J., Prigent, C. and Y. Zheng. (2003). A Ran signalling pathway mediated by the mitotic kinase Aurora A in spindle assembly. Nature Cell Biology 5:242-248.

• Wiese, C., A. Wilde, M. S. Moore, S. A. Adam, A. Merdes, and Y. Zheng (2001) Role of importin-β in coupling Ran to downstream targets in microtubule assembly. Science 291: 653-656.

• Wilde, A., S. B. Lizarraga*, L. Zhang, C. Wiese, N. R. Gliksman, C. E. Walczak, and Y. Zheng. (2001). Ran stimulates spindle assembly by changing microtubule dynamics and the balance of motor activities. Nature Cell Biology 3:221-227.

• Wiese, C. and Y. Zheng. (2000). A new function for the γ-tubulin ring complex as a microtubule minus end cap. Nature Cell Biology 3: 358-364.

• Oegema, K. , Wiese, C., O. C. Martin, R. A. Milligan, A. Iwamatsu, T. J. Mitchison, and Y. Zheng. (1999). Characterization of two related Drosophila γ-tubulin complexes that differ in their ability to nucleate microtubules. J. Cell Biol. 144: 721-733.

• Wiese, C. and Y. Zheng. (1999). γ-Tubulin complexes and their interaction with microtubule-organizing centers. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol 9: 250-259.