The London Research Institute research groups are based at Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Clare Hall. Our major research themes are: the biology of tumours and tissues, cellular regulatory mechanisms and genomic integrity and cell cycle.
Martin Singleton : Macromolecular Structure and Function
Publications
2012
Perriches T, Singleton MR. The structure of the yeast kinetochore Ndc10 DNA-binding domain reveals an unexpected evolutionary relationship to tyrosine recombinases. J Biol Chem. 2012;287(7):5173-5179
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Zhang G, Kelstrup CD, Hu XW, Hansen MJ, Singleton MR, Olsen JV, Nilsson J. The Ndc80 internal loop is required for recruitment of the Ska complex to establish end-on microtubule attachment to kinetochores. J Cell Sci. 2012 Mar 27. [Epub ahead of print]
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2011
Kingston IJ, Yung JS, Singleton MR. Biophysical Characterization of the Centromere-specific Nucleosome from Budding Yeast. J Biol Chem. 2011;286(5):4021-6
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2010
Amaro AC, Samora CP, Holtackers R, Wang E, Kingston IJ, Alonso M, Lampson M, Mcainsh AD, Meraldi P. Molecular control of kinetochore-microtubule dynamics and chromosome oscillations. Nat. Cell Biol. 2010;12(4):319-329
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Maskell DP, Hu XW, Singleton MR. Molecular architecture and assembly of the yeast kinetochore MIND complex. J Cell Biol. 2010;190(5):823-34
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Rass U, Compton SA, Matos J, Singleton MR, Ip SC, Blanco MG, Griffith JD, West SC. Mechanism of Holliday junction resolution by the human GEN1 protein. Genes Dev. 2010;24(14):1559-69
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2008
Purvis A, Singleton MR. Insights into kinetochore-DNA interactions from the structure of Cep3∆. EMBO Reps. 2008;9:56-62
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2007
Singleton MR, Dillingham MS, Wigley DB. Structure and mechanism of helicases and nucleic acid translocases. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 2007;76:23-50
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2006
Seybert A, Singleton MR, Cook N, Hall DR, Wigley DB. Communication between subunits within an archaeal clamp-loader complex. EMBO J. 2006;25:2209-2218
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2004
Singleton MR, Dillingham MS, Gaudier M, Kowalczykowski SC, Wigley DB. Crystal structure of RecBCD enzyme reveals a machine for processing DNA breaks. Nature. 2004;432:187-193
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2003
Singleton MR, Morales R, Grainge I, Cook N, Isupov MN, Wigley DB. Conformational changes induced by nucleotide binding in Cdc6/ORC from Aeropyrum pernix. J. Mol. Biol. 2003;343:547-557
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Singleton MR, Wigley DB. Multiple roles for ATP hydrolysis in Nucleic acid modifying enzymes. EMBO J. 2003;22:4579-4583
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2002
Seybert A, Scott DJ, Scaife S, Singleton MR, Wigley DB. Biochemical characterization of the clamp/clamp loader proteins from the Euryarchaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus. Nucl. Acid. Res. 2002;30:4329-4338
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Singleton MR, Wentzell LM, Liu Y, West SC, Wigley DB. Structure of the single-strand annealing domain of Human RAD52 protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2002;99:13492-13497
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Singleton MR, Wigley DB. Specialisation and modularity in superfamily 1 and 2 helicases. J. Bacteriol. 2002;184:1819-1826
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2001
Singleton MR, Littlechild JA. Pyrrolidone carboxyl peptidase from Thermococcus litoralis. Meth. Enzym. 2001;330:394-403
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Singleton MR, Scaife S, Wigley DB. Structural analysis of DNA replication fork reversal by RecG. Cell. 2001;107:79-89
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Singleton MR. Scaife S, Raven ND, Wigley DB. Crystallisation and preliminary X-ray analysis of RecG, a replication-fork reversal helicase from Thermotoga Maritima complexed with a three-way DNA junction. Acta Cryst. 2001;D57:1695-1696
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2000
Singleton MR, Sawaya MR, Ellenberger T, Wigley DB. Crystal structure of T7 gene 4 ring helicase indicates a mechanism for sequential hydrolysis of nucleotides. Cell. 2000;101:589-600
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Singleton MR, Taylor SJ, Parrat JS, Littlechild JA. Cloning, expression, and characterization of pyrrolidone carboxyl peptidase from the archaeon Thermococcus litoralis. Extremophiles. 2000;4(5):297-303
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- Clare Hall
- Lincoln's Inn Fields
- Paul Bates
- Facundo Batista
- Axel Behrens
- Dominique Bonnet
- Julie Cooper
- Julian Downward
- Holger Gerhardt
- Adrian Hayday
- Caroline Hill
- Nancy Hogg
- David Ish-Horowicz
- Banafshe Larijani
- Julian Lewis
- Nicholas Luscombe
- Taija Makinen
- Ilaria Malanchi
- Neil McDonald
- Paul Nurse / Jacqueline Hayles
- Peter Parker
- Gordon Peters
- Caetano Reis e Sousa
- Erik Sahai
- Giampietro Schiavo
- Almut Schulze
- Martin Singleton
- Thomas Surrey
- Charles Swanton
- Nicolas Tapon
- Barry Thompson
- Takashi Toda
- Sharon Tooze
- Richard Treisman
- Frank Uhlmann
- Helen Walden
- Michael Way
- Nick Wright
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