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Overview

Cayetano Gonzalez is affiliated with the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial body of work dedicated to Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. They have also contributed to Plant Science and Immunology.

Their principal research topics include:

  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Redox biology and oxidative stress

Cayetano Gonzalez's recent publications include:

  • Centrosomes in asymmetric cell division, 2020, Current Opinion in Structural Biology
  • Structures of the germline-specific Deadhead and thioredoxin T proteins from Drosophila melanogaster reveal unique features among thioredoxins, 2021, IUCrJ
  • Illuminati: a form of gene expression plasticity in Drosophila neural stem cells, 2022, Development
  • Human EWS-FLI protein recapitulates in Drosophila the neomorphic functions that induce Ewing sarcoma tumorigenesis, 2022, PNAS Nexus
  • Human EWS-FLI protein levels and neomorphic functions show a complex, function-specific dose-response relationship in Drosophila, 2024, Open Biology

They have published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cells, Current Opinion in Structural Biology, IUCrJ, and Development.

The scientist has collaborated recurrently with several researchers, including:

  • Jan Peter Heinen
  • Cristina Molnar
  • José Reina
  • Jaume Mora
  • Salud Llamazares

Best Publications

  • polo encodes a protein kinase homolog required for mitosis in Drosophila.

    S Llamazares;A Moreira;A Tavares;C Girdham

  • Induction of tumor growth by altered stem-cell asymmetric division in Drosophila melanogaster

    Emmanuel Caussinus;Cayetano Gonzalez

  • Functionally Unequal Centrosomes Drive Spindle Orientation in Asymmetrically Dividing Drosophila Neural Stem Cells

    Elena Rebollo;Paula Sampaio;Jens Januschke;Salud Llamazares

  • Drosophila melanogaster : a model and a tool to investigate malignancy and identify new therapeutics

    Cayetano Gonzalez

  • The A- and B-type cyclins of Drosophila are accumulated and destroyed in temporally distinct events that define separable phases of the G2-M transition.

    W. G. F. Whitfield;C. Gonzalez;G. Maldonado-Codina;D. M. Glover

  • Ectopic Expression of Germline Genes Drives Malignant Brain Tumor Growth in Drosophila

    Ana Janic;Leire Mendizabal;Salud Llamazares;David Rossell

  • Spindle orientation, asymmetric division and tumour suppression in Drosophila stem cells

    Cayetano Gonzalez

  • Centrosome Dysfunction in Drosophila Neural Stem Cells Causes Tumors that Are Not Due to Genome Instability

    Elisabeth Castellanos;Paloma Dominguez;Cayetano Gonzalez

  • Computer-aided design of a PDZ domain to recognize new target sequences

    Jose Reina;Emmanuel Lacroix;Scott D. Hobson;Gregorio Fernandez-Ballester

  • Gamma-tubulin is required for the structure and function of the microtubule organizing centre in Drosophila neuroblasts.

    C.E. Sunkel;R. Gomes;P. Sampaio;J. Perdigão

  • Drosophila neuroblasts retain the daughter centrosome

    Jens Januschke;Salud Llamazares;Jose Reina;Cayetano Gonzalez

  • Vaccinia virus infection disrupts microtubule organization and centrosome function

    Aspasia Ploubidou;Violaine Moreau;Keith Ashman;Inge Reckmann

  • Hsp90 is a core centrosomal component and is required at different stages of the centrosome cycle in Drosophila and vertebrates

    Bodo M.H. Lange;Angela Bachi;Matthias Wilm;Cayetano González

  • Asterless is a centriolar protein required for centrosome function and embryo development in Drosophila

    Hanne Varmark;Salud Llamazares;Elena Rebollo;Bodo Lange

  • Centrosomes and microtubule organisation during Drosophila development

    C. Gonzalez;G. Tavosanis;C. Mollinari

  • The Drosophila Gene abnormal spindle Encodes a Novel Microtubule-associated Protein That Associates with the Polar Regions of the Mitotic Spindle

    Robert D.C. Saunders;Maria do Carmo Avides;Thomas Howard;Cayetano Gonzalez

  • Regulation of the G1-S transition in postembryonic neuronal precursors by axon ingrowth.

    Scott B. Selleck;Cayetano Gonzalez;David M. Glover;Kalpana White

  • Polyhomeotic has a tumor suppressor activity mediated by repression of Notch signaling

    Anne-Marie Martinez;Bernd Schuettengruber;Samy Sakr;Ana Janic

  • Centrobin controls mother–daughter centriole asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts

    J Januschke;J Reina;S Llamazares;T Bertran

  • Mutations at the asp locus of Drosophila lead to multiple free centrosomes in syncytial embryos, but restrict centrosome duplication in larval neuroblasts.

    C. Gonzalez;R. D. C. Saunders;J. Casal;I. Molina

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Glover
David M. Glover California Institute of Technology
Luis Serrano
Luis Serrano Centre for Genomic Regulation
Claudio E. Sunkel
Claudio E. Sunkel University of Porto
Juan Botas
Juan Botas Baylor College of Medicine
Huda Y. Zoghbi
Huda Y. Zoghbi Baylor College of Medicine
Maria Giovanna Riparbelli
Maria Giovanna Riparbelli University of Siena
Wanjin Hong
Wanjin Hong Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Luke Alphey
Luke Alphey University of York
Wing-Kin Sung
Wing-Kin Sung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sharyn A. Endow
Sharyn A. Endow Duke University

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