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Overview

Alexey Khodjakov is affiliated with the New York State Department of Health in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the broad disciplines of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial body of work spanning several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Genetics. Additional contributions cover Immunology and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to key research areas, notably:

  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

Several recent research articles by Alexey Khodjakov include:

  • Non-centrosomal microtubules at kinetochores promote rapid chromosome biorientation during mitosis in human cells, 2022, published in Current Biology
  • Tension promotes kinetochore-microtubule release by Aurora B kinase, 2021, published in The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Cell Cycle-Dependent Dynamics of the Golgi-Centrosome Association in Motile Cells, 2020, published in Cells
  • Role of spatial patterns and kinetochore architecture in spindle morphogenesis, 2021, published in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • A tubule-sheet continuum model for the mechanism of nuclear envelope assembly, 2023, published in Developmental Cell

Their research has been disseminated through multiple publication venues, indicating a focus on peer review and scientific discourse in biomedical literature and cell biology. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Collaboration features prominently in Alexey Khodjakov's research profile. Frequent co-authors working alongside them include:

  • Fioranna Renda
  • Irina Tikhonenko
  • Christopher E. Miles
  • Lina Carlini
  • Tarun M. Kapoor

Best Publications

  • The checkpoint delaying anaphase in response to chromosome monoorientation is mediated by an inhibitory signal produced by unattached kinetochores.

    Conly L. Rieder;Richard W. Cole;Alexey Khodjakov;Greenfield Sluder

  • Flies without Centrioles

    Renata Basto;Joyce Lau;Tatiana Vinogradova;Tatiana Vinogradova;Alejandra Gardiol

  • Merotelic kinetochore orientation is a major mechanism of aneuploidy in mitotic mammalian tissue cells

    Daniela Cimini;Bonnie Howell;Paul Maddox;Alexey Khodjakov

  • Centrosome Amplification Can Initiate Tumorigenesis in Flies

    Renata Basto;Kathrin Brunk;Tatiana Vinadogrova;Tatiana Vinadogrova;Nina Peel;Nina Peel

  • Centrosome-independent mitotic spindle formation in vertebrates

    Alexey Khodjakov;Alexey Khodjakov;Richard W. Cole;Berl R. Oakley;Conly L. Rieder;Conly L. Rieder

  • Asymmetric CLASP-Dependent Nucleation of Noncentrosomal Microtubules at the trans-Golgi Network

    Andrey Efimov;Alexey Kharitonov;Nadia Efimova;Jadranka Loncarek

  • Correcting improper chromosome-spindle attachments during cell division.

    Michael A Lampson;Kishore Renduchitala;Alexey Khodjakov;Tarun M Kapoor

  • The respective contributions of the mother and daughter centrioles to centrosome activity and behavior in vertebrate cells.

    Matthieu Piel;Pablo Meyer;Alexey Khodjakov;Conly L. Rieder

  • Chromosomes Can Congress to the Metaphase Plate Before Biorientation

    Tarun M. Kapoor;Michael A. Lampson;Polla Hergert;Lisa Cameron;Lisa Cameron

  • Requirement of a Centrosomal Activity for Cell Cycle Progression Through G1 into S Phase

    Edward H. Hinchcliffe;Frederick J. Miller;Matthew Cham;Alexey L. Khodjakov

  • Centriole Disassembly In Vivo and Its Effect on Centrosome Structure and Function in Vertebrate Cells

    Y. Bobinnec;A. Khodjakov;L.M. Mir;C.L. Rieder

  • The Sudden Recruitment of γ-Tubulin to the Centrosome at the Onset of Mitosis and Its Dynamic Exchange Throughout the Cell Cycle, Do Not Require Microtubules

    Alexey Khodjakov;Alexey Khodjakov;Conly L. Rieder;Conly L. Rieder

  • Centrosomes Enhance the Fidelity of Cytokinesis in Vertebrates and Are Required for Cell Cycle Progression

    Alexey Khodjakov;Conly L. Rieder;Conly L. Rieder

  • Regulated HsSAS-6 Levels Ensure Formation of a Single Procentriole per Centriole during the Centrosome Duplication Cycle

    Petr Strnad;Sebastian Leidel;Tatiana Vinogradova;Ursula Euteneuer

  • Kinetochore-driven formation of kinetochore fibers contributes to spindle assembly during animal mitosis

    Helder Maiato;Conly L. Rieder;Conly L. Rieder;Conly L. Rieder;Alexey Khodjakov;Alexey Khodjakov;Alexey Khodjakov

  • The spatial arrangement of chromosomes during prometaphase facilitates spindle assembly

    Valentin Magidson;Christopher B. O'Connell;Jadranka Lončarek;Raja Paul

  • Depletion of centromeric MCAK leads to chromosome congression and segregation defects due to improper kinetochore attachments.

    Susan L. Kline-Smith;Alexey Khodjakov;Polla Hergert;Claire E. Walczak

  • Mechanisms of chromosome behaviour during mitosis.

    Claire E. Walczak;Shang Cai;Alexey Khodjakov

  • Overly long centrioles and defective cell division upon excess of the SAS-4-related protein CPAP.

    Gregor Kohlmaier;Jadranka Lončarek;Xing Meng;Bruce F. McEwen

  • The centrosome in vertebrates: more than a microtubule-organizing center

    Conly L Rieder;Shamsa Faruki;Alexey Khodjakov

Frequent Co-Authors

Conly L. Rieder
Conly L. Rieder New York State Department of Health
Tarun M. Kapoor
Tarun M. Kapoor Rockefeller University
Fred Chang
Fred Chang University of California, San Francisco
Helder Maiato
Helder Maiato University of Porto
David Pellman
David Pellman Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Michael A. Lampson
Michael A. Lampson University of Pennsylvania
Pierre Gönczy
Pierre Gönczy École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alex Mogilner
Alex Mogilner Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Jordan W. Raff
Jordan W. Raff University of Oxford
Claire E. Walczak
Claire E. Walczak Indiana University

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