Publications

Recent publications from the lab: click on an icon to retrive a paper.
Kelling, J. Sullivan, K. Wilson, L., Jordan, M.A. (2003) Suppression of centromere dynamics by Taxol in living osteosarcoma cells. Cancer Res. 63, 2794-2801.
Cleveland, D.W., Mao, Y. Sullivan, K.F. (2003) Centromeres and kinetochores: from epigenetics to checkpoint signaling. Cell 112, 407-421.
Zeitlin SG, Shelby RD, Sullivan KF. (2001) CENP-A is phosphorylated by Aurora B kinase and plays an unexpected role in completion of cytokinesis. J. Cell Biol. 155, 1147-1158
Van Hooser AA, Ouspenski II, Gregson HC, Starr DA, Yen TJ, Goldberg ML, Yokomori K, Earnshaw WC, Sullivan KF, Brinkley BR. (2001) Specification of kinetochore-forming chromatin by the histone H3 variant CENP-A. J. Cell Sci. 114, 3529-3542.
Zeitlin, S.G. and Sullivan, K.F. (2001) Animal cytokinesis: breaking up is hard to do. Current Biology 11:R514-516.
Sadoni, N., Sullivan, K.F., Weinzierl, P., Stelzer, E.H.K. and Zink, D. (2001) Large-scale chromatin fibers of living cells display a discontinuous functional organization. Chromosoma, 110, 39-51
 Sullivan, K.F. (2001) A solid foundation: Functional specialization of centromeric chromatin. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 11:182-188
Zeitlin and Barber et al, JCS 2001  Zeitlin, S.G., Barber, C., Allis, C.D. and Sullivan, K.F. (2001) Differential regulation of CENP-A and histone H3 phosphorylation in G2/M. J. Cell Science 114, 643-651
Shelby et al (2000) J. Cell Biol  Shelby, R.D., Monier, K. and Sullivan, K.F. (2000) Chromatin assembly is uncoupled from DNA replication at the kinetochore. J. Cell Biol. 151, 1113-1118
Lamonte et al (2000) J. Biol. Chem. Lomonte P, Sullivan KF, Everett RD. (2000) Degradation of nucleosome-associated centromeric histone H3-like protein CENP-A induced by herpes simplex virus type 1 protein ICP0. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 5829-5835.
Monier et al (2000) Nature Cell Biology  Monier K, Armas JC, Etteldorf S, Ghazal P, Sullivan KF. (2000) Annexation of the interchromosomal space during viral infection. Nature Cell Biol. 2:661-65
Yao et al (2000) Nature Cell Biology  Yao X, Abrieu A, Zheng Y, Sullivan KF, Cleveland DW. (2000) CENP-E forms a link between attachment of spindle microtubules to kinetochores and the mitotic checkpoint. Nature Cell Biol. 2:484-91
GFP: Methods in Cell Biology Sullivan, K.F. and Kay, S.A., Eds. (1999) Green Fluorescent Proteins. Methods in Cell Biology. Volume 58, Academic Press, San Diego. (You may buy it if you like)
Sullivan KF. (1999) Enlightening mitosis: construction and expression of green fluorescent fusion proteins. in Mitosis: Methods Cell Biol. 61:113-35.
Vafa et al (1999) Chromosoma Vafa O, Shelby RD, Sullivan KF. (1999) CENP-A associated complex satellite DNA in the kinetochore of the Indian muntjac. Chromosoma 108, 367-74.
H2B-GFP green nuclei T. Kanda, Sullivan, K.F. and Wahl, G.M. (1998) Histone-GFP fusion protein enables sensitive analysis of chromosome dynamics in living mammalian cells. Curr. Biol. 8 , 377
Phasing in CENP-A chromatin Vafa, O. and Sullivan, K.F. (1997) Chromatin containing CENP-A and alpha-satellite DNA is a major component of the inner kinetochore plate. Curr.Biol. 7, 897-900.
CENP-A at the inner kinetochore plate Warburton, P.E., Cooke, C.A., Bourassa, S., Vafa, O., Sullivan, B.A., Stetten, G., Gimelli, G., Warburton, D., Tyler-Smith, C., Sullivan, K.F., Poirier, GG, and Earnshaw, W.C. (1997). Immunolocalization of CENP-A suggests a distinct nucleosome structure at the inner kinetochore plate of active centromeres. Curr.Biol. 7, 901-904.
CENP-A targeting mutations Shelby, R.D., Vafa, O., and Sullivan, K.F. (1997). Assembly of CENP-A into centromeric chromatin requires a cooperative array of nucleosomal DNA contact sites. J.Cell Biol. 136, 501-513.
Centromeres in telophase - CENP-B-GFP Shelby, R.D., Hahn, K.M., and Sullivan, K.F. (1996). Dynamic elastic behavior of alpha-satellite DNA domains visualized in situ in living human cells. J.Cell Biol. 135, 545-557.
Sun, D., Martinez, A., Sullivan, K.F., Sharp, G.C., and Hoch, S.O. (1996). Detection of anticentromere antibodies using recombinant human CENP-A protein. Arthritis Rheum. 39, 863-867.
Sage C.R., Davis, A.S., Dougherty, C.A., Sullivan, K.F.,and Farrell, K.W. (1995). b-Tubulin mutation suppresses microtubule dynamics in vitro and slows mitosis in vivo. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 285-300
Sullivan, K.F., Hechenberger, M., and Masri, K. (1994). Human CENP-A contains a histone H3 related histone fold domain that is required for targeting to the centromere. J.Cell Biol. 127, 581-592.
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