Publications

2025

Pena GE, Zhou X, Slevin L, Brownlee C, Heald R. The NLS3 Motif in TPX2 Regulates Spindle Architecture in Xenopus Egg Extracts. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2025 May 6. doi: https:/doi:10.1002/cm.22034

Sutton PJ, Mosqueda N, Brownlee CW. Palmitoylated Importin α Regulates Mitotic Spindle Orientation Through Interaction with NuMA. EMBO Reports, 2025 (in press). Preprint available: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.25.620315

Mosqueda N, Sutton PJ, Brownlee CW. A Role for Importin α in Ciliogenesis and Cilia Length Regulation during Nephrogenesis. Preprint available: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.10.648263

Xue Z, Sutton PJ, Haley JD, Brownlee CW, Demple, B. Pathways and Products of Base Excision DNA Repair in Xenopus laevis Eggs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 (in revision). 

 

2020

Miller K, Brownlee C, Heald R. The power of amphibians to elucidate mechanisms of size control and scaling. Experimental Cell Research. 2020, July 1. doi: 10.1016/J.YEXCR.2020.112036.

 

2019

Brownlee C, Heald R. Importin α partitioning to the plasma membrane regulates intracellular scaling. Cell. February 7, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.001.

 

2018

Brownlee C, Heald R. The Incredible Shrinking Spindle. Developmental Cell. 2018, May 21. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.05.007.

McLamarrah TA, Buster DW, Galletta BJ, Boese CJ, Ryniawec JM, Hollingsworth NA, Byrnes AE, Brownlee CW, Slep KC, Rusan NM, Rogers GC. An ordered pattern of Ana2 phosphorylation by Plk4 is required for centriole assembly. The Journal of Cell Biology.  2018, March 1. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201605106.

 

2014

Galletta BJ, Guillen RX, Fagerstrom CJ, Brownlee CW, Lerit DA, Megraw TL, Rogers GC, Rusan NM. Drosophila Pericentrin requires interaction with Calmodulin for its function at centrosomes and neuronal basal bodies, but not at sperm basal bodies. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2014, September 15. DOI:10.1091/mbc.E13-10-0617.

 

2012

Brownlee, CW, Rogers GC. Show me your license, please: deregulation of centriole duplication mechanisms that promote amplification. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2012, Aug 15. DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1102-6.

 

2011

Brownlee, CW, Klebba JE, Buster DW, Rogers GC. The Protein Phosphatase 2A regulatory subunit Twins stabilizes Plk4 to induce centriole amplification. The Journal of Cell Biology. 2011, October 10. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201107086.