Puck Ryoma Ohi Puck is a currently a professor of Cell Biology at Vanderbilt University.

Email: ryoma.ohi * vanderbilt.edu Webpage: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vumcdept/cellbio/pohi/

Publications Maresca TJ, Groen AC, Gatlin JC, Ohi R, Mitchison TJ, Salmon ED. Spindle Assembly in the Absence of a RanGTP Gradient Requires Localized CPC Activity. Curr Biol. 2009 Jun 17; [Epub ahead of print] PubMed Maresca TJ, Groen AC, Gatlin JC, Ohi R, Mitchison TJ, Salmon ED. Spindle Assembly in the Absence of a RanGTP Gradient Requires Localized CPC Activity. Curr Biol. 2009 Jun 17; [Epub ahead of print] PubMed Ohi R, Burbank K, Liu Q, Mitchison TJ. Nonredundant functions of Kinesin-13s during meiotic spindle assembly. Curr Biol. 2007 Jun 5;17(11):953-9. Epub 2007 May 17. PubMed Groen AC, Cameron LA, Coughlin M, Miyamoto DT, Mitchison TJ, Ohi R. XRHAMM functions in ran-dependent microtubule nucleation and pole formation during anastral spindle assembly. Curr Biol. 2004 Oct 26;14(20):1801-11. PubMed Full Text Mitchison TJ, Maddox P, Groen A, Cameron L, Perlman Z, Ohi R, Desai A, Salmon ED, Kapoor TM. Bipolarization and poleward flux correlate during Xenopus extract spindle assembly. Mol Biol Cell. 2004 Dec;15(12):5603-15. Epub 2004 Sep 22. PubMed Ohi R, Sapra T, Howard J, Mitchison TJ. Differentiation of cytoplasmic and meiotic spindle assembly MCAK functions by Aurora B-dependent phosphorylation. Mol Biol Cell. 2004 Jun;15(6):2895-906. Epub 2004 Apr 2. PubMed Ohi R, Coughlin ML, Lane WS, Mitchison TJ. An inner centromere protein that stimulates the microtubule depolymerizing activity of a KinI kinesin. Dev Cell. 2003 Aug;5(2):309-21. PubMed Full Text Burns CG, Ohi R, Mehta S, O'Toole ET, Winey M, Clark TA, Sugnet CW, Ares M Jr, Gould KL. Removal of a single alpha-tubulin gene intron suppresses cell cycle arrest phenotypes of splicing factor mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol. 2002 Feb;22(3):801-15. PubMed Burns CG, Ohi R, Krainer AR, Gould KL. Evidence that Myb-related CDC5 proteins are required for pre-mRNA splicing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Nov 23;96(24):13789-94. PubMed McDonald WH, Ohi R, Smelkova N, Frendewey D, Gould KL. Myb-related fission yeast cdc5p is a component of a 40S snRNP-containing complex and is essential for pre-mRNA splicing. Mol Cell Biol. 1999 Aug;19(8):5352-62. PubMed Feoktistova A, McCollum D, Ohi R, Gould KL. Identification and characterization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe asp1(+), a gene that interacts with mutations in the Arp2/3 complex and actin. Genetics. 1999 Jul;152(3):895-908. PubMed Ohi R, Gould KL. Regulating the onset of mitosis. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 1999 Apr;11(2):267-73. PubMed Myb-related Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc5p is structurally and functionally conserved in eukaryotes. Erratum in: Mol Cell Biol 1998 Oct;18(10):6164. Mol Cell Biol. 1998 Jul;18(7):4097-108. PubMed Ohi R, Feoktistova A, Gould KL. Construction of vectors and a genomic library for use with his3-deficient strains of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Gene. 1996 Oct 3;174(2):315-8. PubMed Ohi R, McCollum D, Hirani B, Den Haese GJ, Zhang X, Burke JD, Turner K, Gould KL. The Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc5+ gene encodes an essential protein with homology to c-Myb. EMBO J. 1994 Jan 15;13(2):471-83. PubMed