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Dr Sue Shackleton
Associate Professor
School/Department: Molecular Cell Biology, Department of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 229 7058
Email: ss115@leicester.ac.uk
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Research
Publications
1. Colon-Bolea P, Garcia-Gomez R, Shackleton S, Crespo P, Bustelo XR, Casar B. RAC1 induces nuclear alterations through the LINC complex to enhance melanoma invasiveness. (2020) Molecular Biology of the Cell, 31, 2768-2778. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E20-02-0127.
2. Gimpel P, Lee YL, Sobota RM, Calvi A, Koullourou V, Patel R, Mamchaoui K, Nedelec F, Shackleton S, Schmoranzer J, Burke B, Cadot B, Gomes ER. Nesprin-1alpha-Dependent Microtubule Nucleation from the Nuclear Envelope via Akap450 Is Necessary for Nuclear Positioning in Muscle Cells (2017) Current Biology, 27, 2999-3009. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.031
3. Zhou, C., Li, C., Zhou, B., Sun, H., Koullourou, V., Holt, I., Puckelwartz, M.J., Warren, D.T., Hayward, R., Lin, Z., Zhang, L., Morris, G.E., McNally, E.M., Shackleton, S., Rao, L., Shanahan, C.M., Zhang, Q. Novel nesprin-1 mutations associated with dilated cardiomyopathy cause nuclear envelope disruption and defects in myogenesis. (2017) Human Molecular Genetics, 26, 2258-2276. DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddx116.
4. Mikolcevic, P., Isoda, M., Shibuya, H., del Barco Barrantes, I., Igea, A., Suja, J. A., Shackleton, S., Watanabe, Y. and Nebreda, A. R. Essential role of the atypical Cdk2 activator RingoA in meiotic telomere tethering to the nuclear envelope. (2016) Nature Communications, 7, 11084.
5. Patel JT., Bottrill A., Prosser S.L., Jayaraman S., Straatman K., Fry A.M., Shackleton S. Mitotic phosphorylation of SUN1 loosens its connection with the nuclear lamina while the LINC complex remains intact. (2014) Nucleus 5, 462-473.
6. Meinke, P., Mattioli, E., Haque, F., Antoku, S., Columbaro, M., Straatman, K.R., Worman, H.J., Gundersen, G.G., Lattanzi, G., Wehnert, M., Shackleton, S. Muscular Dystrophy-Associated SUN1 and SUN2 Variants Disrupt Nuclear-Cytoskeletal Connections and Myonuclear Organization. (2014) PLoS Genetics 10, e1004605.
7. Watkins, R.J., Patil, R., Goult, B.T., Thomas, M.G., Gottlob, I. and Shackleton, S. A novel interaction between FRMD7 and CASK - evidence for a causal role in idiopathic infantile nystagmus. (2013) Human Molecular Genetics 22, 2105-2118.
8. Haque F, Mazzeo, D., Patel, J.T., Smallwood, D.T., Ellis, J.A., Shannahan, C.M. and Shackleton, S. Mammalian SUN protein networks at the inner nuclear membrane and their role in laminopathy disease processes. (2010) Journal of Biological Chemistry 285, 3487-98.
9. Haque, F., Lloyd, D, Smallwood, D., Dent, C., Shanahan, C., Fry, A., Trembath, R. and Shackleton, S. SUN1 interacts with nuclear lamin A and cytoplasmic nesprins to provide a physical connection between the nuclear lamina and the cytoskeleton (2006) Molecular and Cellular Biology 26, 3738-3751.
10. Shackleton, S., Lloyd, D., Jackson, S., Evans, R., Niermeijer, M., Singh, B., Schmidt, H., Brabant, G., Kumar, S., Durrington, P., Gregory, S., O'Rahilly, S., Trembath, R. The LMNA gene encoding lamin A/C is mutated in partial lipodystrophy (2000) Nature Genetics 24, 152-156.