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Live imaging screen reveals that TYRO3 and GAK ensure accurate spindle positioning in human cells

Pierre Gönczy, Coralie Busso, Benita Wolf

Proper spindle positioning is crucial for spatial cell division control. Spindle positioning in human cells relies on a ternary complex comprising G alpha i1-3, LGN and NuMA, which anchors dynein at the cell cortex, thus enabling pulling forces to be exert ...

Springer2019

Coupling the cell cycle to development

Pierre Gönczy

The core machinery that drives the eukaryotic cell cycle has been thoroughly investigated over the course of the past three decades. It is only more recently, however, that light has been shed on the mechanisms by which elements of this core machinery are ...

2009

Aurora A kinase regulates proper spindle positioning in C-elegans and in human cells

Pierre Gönczy, Coralie Busso, Sachin Kotak

Accurate spindle positioning is essential for error-free cell division. The one-cell Caenorhabditis elegans embryo has proven instrumental for dissecting mechanisms governing spindle positioning. Despite important progress, how the cortical forces that act ...

2016

Mutual Antagonism Between the Anaphase Promoting Complex and the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Contributes to Mitotic Timing in Caenorhabditis elegans

Pierre Gönczy, Alexandra Bezler

The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) triggers the separation of sister chromatids and exit from mitosis across eukaryotic evolution. The APC/C is inhibited by the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) until all chromosomes have achieved bipolar att ...

2010

Tuning SAS-6 architecture with monobodies impairs distinct steps of centriole assembly

Pierre Gönczy, Georg Fantner, Oliver Hantschel, Santiago Harald Andany, Niccolo Banterle, Virginie Hamel, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Tatiana Favez

Centrioles are evolutionarily conserved multi-protein organelles essential for forming cilia and centrosomes. Centriole biogenesis begins with self-assembly of SAS-6 proteins into 9-fold symmetrical ring polymers, which then stack into a cartwheel that sca ...

Nature Research2021

The Human Centriolar Protein CEP135 Contains a Two-Stranded Coiled-Coil Domain Critical for Microtubule Binding

Pierre Gönczy, Paul Guichard, Georgios Hatzopoulos

Centrioles are microtubule-based structures that play important roles notably in cell division and cilium biogenesis. CEP135/Bld10p family members are evolutionarily conserved microtubule-binding proteins important for centriole formation. Here, we analyze ...

Elsevier2016

Polarity mediates asymmetric trafficking of the G beta heterotrimeric G-protein subunit GPB-1 in C. elegans embryos

Pierre Gönczy, Kalyani Thyagarajan

Asymmetric cell division is an evolutionarily conserved process that gives rise to daughter cells with different fates. In one-cell stage C. elegans embryos, this process is accompanied by asymmetric spindle positioning, which is regulated by anterior-post ...

2011

ZYG-9, TAC-1 and ZYG-8 together ensure correct microtubule function throughout the cell cycle of C. elegans embryos

Pierre Gönczy

The early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo is well suited for investigating microtubule-dependent cell division processes. In the one-cell stage, the XMAP215 homologue ZYG-9, associated with the TACC protein TAC-1, promotes microtubule growth during interphas ...

2007

Novel features of centriole polarity and cartwheel stacking revealed by cryo-tomography

Pierre Gönczy, Paul Guichard, Davide Demurtas, Sergey Nazarov, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Alexandra Bezler, Veronika Nemcíková Villímová

Centrioles are polarized microtubule-based organelles that seed the formation of cilia, and which assemble from a cartwheel containing stacked ring oligomers ofSAS-6 proteins. A cryo-tomography map of centrioles from the termite flagellateTrichonymphaspp. ...

2020

Quantitative Analysis and Modeling Probe Polarity Establishment in C. elegans Embryos

Felix Naef, Pierre Gönczy, Coralie Busso, Simon Blanchoud

Cell polarity underlies many aspects of metazoan development and homeostasis, and relies notably on a set of PAR proteins located at the cell cortex. How these proteins interact in space and time remains incompletely understood. We performed a quantitative ...

Cell Press2015

Structural determinants underlying the temperature-sensitive nature of a Galpha mutant in asymmetric cell division of Caenorhabditis elegans

Pierre Gönczy

Heterotrimeric G-proteins are integral to a conserved regulatory module that influences metazoan asymmetric cell division (ACD). In the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote, GOA-1 (Galpha(o)) and GPA-16 (Galpha(i)) are involved in generating forces that pull on a ...

2008

Structural Basis of the 9-Fold Symmetry of Centrioles

Pierre Gönczy, Debora Keller

The centriole, and the related basal body, is an ancient organelle characterized by a universal 9-fold radial symmetry and is critical for generating cilia, flagella, and centrosomes. The mechanisms directing centriole formation are incompletely understood ...

2011

Atypical and distinct microtubule radial symmetries in the centriole and the axoneme of Lecudina tuzetae

Pierre Gönczy, Coralie Busso, Alexandra Bezler, Alexander Woglar, Fabian Zacharias Schneider, Léo Arthur Bürgy, Friso Edsger Douma

The centriole is a minute cylindrical organelle present in a wide range of eukaryotic species. Most centrioles have a signature ninefold radial symmetry of microtubules that is imparted to the axonemes of the cilia and flagella they template, with nine cen ...

AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY2022

PP2A Phosphatase Acts upon SAS-5 to Ensure Centriole Formation in C. elegans Embryos

Pierre Gönczy, Debora Keller

Centrosome duplication occurs once per cell cycle and ensures that the two resulting centrosomes assemble a bipolar mitotic spindle. Centriole formation is fundamental for centrosome duplication. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the evolutionarily conserved prot ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2011

Temperature gradient stimulation for cell division in C. Elegans Embryos on chip

Philippe Renaud, Pierre Gönczy, Alexandra Bezler, Sophie Baranek Delasoie

This paper reports on a new microfluidic device for temperature stimulation of cell in in-vitro culture. Micro- electrodes in a meander shape are embedded into the microfluidic channels to generate either a temperature gradient through the culture chamber ...

2010

Molecular architecture of the C. elegans centriole

Pierre Gönczy, Coralie Busso, Alexander Woglar, Marie Juliette Ségolène Pierron, Fabian Zacharias Schneider, Keshav Jha

Uncovering organizing principles of organelle assembly is a fundamental pursuit in the life sciences. Caenorhabditis elegans was key in identifying evolutionary conserved components governing assembly of the centriole organelle. However, localizing these c ...

2022

Full-genome RNAi profiling of early embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Pierre Gönczy

A key challenge of functional genomics today is to generate well-annotated data sets that can be interpreted across different platforms and technologies. Large-scale functional genomics data often fail to connect to standard experimental approaches of gene ...

2005

Multicolor single-particle reconstruction of protein complexes

Pierre Gönczy, Suliana Manley, Christian Sieben, Kyle Michael Douglass, Niccolo Banterle

Single-particle reconstruction (SPR) from electron microscopy (EM) images is widely used in structural biology, but it lacks direct information on protein identity. To address this limitation, we developed a computational and analytical framework that reco ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Homogeneous multifocal excitation for high-throughput super-resolution imaging

Davide Gambarotto, Pierre Gönczy, Suliana Manley, Paul Guichard, Dora Mahecic, Kyle Michael Douglass, Niccolo Banterle, Virginie Hamel, Khalid Ashraf Mohie Ibrahim

Super-resolution microscopies have become an established tool in biological research. However, imaging throughput remains a main bottleneck in acquiring large datasets required for quantitative biology. Here we describe multifocal flat illumination for fie ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Computational support for a scaffolding mechanism of centriole assembly

Pierre Gönczy, Paul Guichard, Virginie Hamel

Centrioles are essential for forming cilia, flagella and centrosomes. Successful centriole assembly requires proteins of the SAS-6 family, which can form oligomeric ring structures with ninefold symmetry in vitro. While important progress has been made in ...

Nature Research2016