Ming Ying Tsai, Ph.D. Selected Publications

Research articles:

Tsai MY, Wang S, Heidinger J, Goldman RD, Adam S, and Zheng Y. (2006). Mitotic Lamin B-matrix Induced by RanGTP Required for Spindle Assembly.  Science 311, 1887-1893.

Tsai MY and Zheng Y. (2005). Aurora A kinase-coated beads function as microtubule organizing centers during RanGTP stimulated spindle assembly. Current Biology. 15, 2156-2163.

Tsai MY, Wiese C, Cao K, Martin O, Donovan P, Ruderman J, Prigent C and Zheng Y. (2003). A Ran Signaling pathway mediated by the mitotic kinase Aurora A in spindle assembly.  Nat Cell Biol. 5, 242 - 248.

Tsai MY, Morfini G, Szebenyi G and Brady ST. (2000). Release of kinesin from vesicles by hsc70 amd regulation of fast axonal transport.  Mol. Biol. Cell 11, 2161-2173.

Tsai MY and Wang C. (1994). Uncoupling of peptide-stimulated ATPase and clathrin-uncoating activity in deletion mutant of hsc70. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 269, 5958-5962.

Wang MY, Tsai MY and Wang C. (1994). Identification of chicken liver glucose transporter. Archives of Biochemistry & Biophysics. 310,172-179.

Huang SP, Tsai MY, Tzou YM, Wu WG. and Wang C. (1993).  Aspartyl residue 10 is essential for ATPase activity of rat hsc70. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 268, 2063-2068.

Reviews and book chapters:

Zheng Y and Tsai MY. (2006) The mitotic spindle matrix: a fibro-membranous lamin connection. Cell Cycle. 5(20):2345-7.

Nakajima R, Tsai MY and Zheng Y. (2003) Centrosome and microtubule nucleation. Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Volume 1.

Morfini G, Tsai MY, Szebenyi G, and Brady, ST. (2001)  Approaches to study the interactions between kinesin motors and membranes. Method in Molecular Biology: Kinesin protocols series. 164,147-62.