Emily S. Smith-Pillet, Ramya Billur, Marie-France Langelier, Tanaji T. Talele, John M. Pascal, Ben E. Black. A PARP2 active site helix melts to permit DNA damage-induced enzymatic activation. Molecular Cell. […]
Kathryn Kixmoeller, Ekaterina V. Taraovetc, Elie Mer, Yi-Wei Chang, Ben E. Black. Centromeric chromatin clearings demarcate the site of kinetochore formation. Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.025. Summary The centromere is the chromosomal […]
Damian Dudka, Jennine M. Dawicki-McKenna, Xueqi Sun, Keagan Beeravolu, Taksahi Akera, Michael A. Lampson, & Ben E. Black. Satellite DNA shapes dictate pericentromere packaging in female meiosis. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08374-0 […]
Craig W. Gambogi, Gabriel J. Birchak, Elie Mer, David M. Brown, George Yankson, Kathryn Kixmoeller, Janardan N. Gavade, Josh L. Espinoza, Prakriti Kashyap, Chris L. Duypont, Glennis A. Logsdon, Patrick […]
Bryan NW, Ali A, Niedzialkowska E, Mayne L, Stukenberg PT, Black BE. Structural basis for the phase separation of the chromosome passenger complex. Elife. 2024 Mar 8;13:e92709. doi: 10.7554/eLife.92709. Epub […]
Gambogi CW, Pandey N, Dawicki-McKenna JM, Arora UP, Liskovykh MA, Ma J, Lamelza P, Larionov V, Lampson MA, Logsdon GA, Dumont BL, Black BE. Centromere innovations within a mouse species. […]
Das A, Boese KG, Tachibana K, Baek SH, Lampson MA, Black BE. Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly. Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 4:S0960-9822(23)00971-5. […]
Pandey N, Black BE. Trends Biochem Sci. 2021 Mar 2:S0968-0004(21)00028-1. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2021.01.014. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33674152
Zandarashvili L, Langelier MF, Velagapudi UK, Hancock MA, Steffen JD, Billur R, Hannan ZM, Wicks AJ, Krastev DB, Pettitt SJ, Lord CJ, Talele TT, Pascal JM, Black BE. Science. 2020;368(6486). pii: eaax6367. doi: 10.1126/science.aax6367. PMID:32241924
Allu PK, Dawicki-McKenna JM, Van Eeuwen T, Slavin M, Braitbard M, Xu C, Kalisman N, Murakami K, Black BE. Curr Biol. 2019 Aug 19;29(16):2625-2639.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.062. Epub 2019 Jul 25. […]