Selected Publications

Wang WJ, Tay HG, Soni R, Perumal GS, Goll MG, Macaluso FP, Asara JM, Amack JD, and Tsou MF.(2013). CEP162 is an axoneme-recognition protein promoting ciliary transition zone assembly. Nat Cell Biol. in press

Tanos BE, Yang HJ, Soni R, Wang WJ, Macaluso FP, Asara JM, and Tsou MF.(2013). Centriole distal appendages promote membrane docking, leading to cilia initiation. Genes Dev. 27: 163-168.

Fong CS, and Tsou MF. (2012). The inner compass of spindle positioning and orientation. Dev Cell 22(3):475-6.

Wang WJ, Soni RS, Uryu K, Tsou MF. (2011). The conversion of centrioles to centrosomes: essential coupling of duplication with segregation. J. Cell Biol, 193(4): 727-739.

Tsou MF*, Wang WJ, Yule KA, Kunihiro Uryu, Stearns T, Jallepalli PV*. (2009). Polo kinase and separase regulate the mitotic licensing of centriole duplication in human cells. Dev. Cell. 17: 344-354. (* Co-corresponding authors). Featured article of the issue.

Tsou MF, and Stearns T. (2006). Mechanism limiting centrosome duplication to once per cell cycle. Nature 442: 947-951.

Tsou MF, and Stearns T. (2006). Controlling centrosome number: licenses and blocks. Curr Opin Cell Bio 18(1): 74-78.

Tsou MF, Hayashi A., and Rose LS. (2003). LET-99 opposes Galpha/GPR signaling to generate asymmetry for spindle positioning in response to PAR and Mes-1/Src-1 signaling. Development 130(23): 5717-30.

Bergmann DC., Lee M., Robertson B., Tsou MF, Rose LS., and Wood WB. (2003). Embryonic handedness choice in C. elegans involves a Galpha protein encoded by the spn-1 gene. Development 130(23): 5731-40.

Tsou MF, Ku W., Hayashi A., Rose LS. (2003). PAR dependent and geometry dependent mechanisms of spindle positioning. J Cell Biol. 160: 845-55.

Tsou MF, Hayashi A., DeBella LR., McGrath G., Rose LS. (2002). LET-99 determines spindle position and is asymmetrically enriched in response to PAR polarity cues in C. elegans embryos. Development 129(19):4469-81.

Bey SJ, Tsou MF, Huang CH, Yang CC, Chen CW. (2000). The homologous terminal sequence of the Streptomyces lividans chromosome and SLP2 plasmid. Microbiology 146: 911-22.

Hwang SP, Tsou MF, Lin YC, Liu CH. (1997). The zebrafish BMP4 gene: sequence analysis and expression pattern during embryonic development. DNA Cell Biol 16 (8): 1003-11.