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Fields of interest:

• Control of the cell cycle (protein kinases, phosphatases and ubiquitin ligases; eggs and oocytes)

Recent publications:

Mochida, S. and Hunt, T.:
Calcineurin is required to release Xenopus egg extracts from meiotic M phase,
Nature, Vol. 449, (2007), pp. 336-340.

Errico, A., Costanzo, V. and Hunt, T.:
Tipin is required for stalled replication forks to resume DNA replication after removal of aphidicolin in Xenopus egg extracts,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., Vol. 104, (2007), pp. 14929-14934.

Hochegger H, Dejsuphong D, Sonoda E, Saberi A, Rajendra E, Kirk J, Hunt T, and Takeda S.:
J Cell Biol., Vol. 178, (2007), pp. 257-268.

Hunt T. and Sassone-Corsi P.:
Riding tandem: circadian clocks and the cell cycle,
Cell, Vol. 129, (2007), pp. 461-464.

Petri ET, Errico A, Escobedo L, Hunt T, and Basavappa R.:
The Crystal Structure of Human Cyclin B,
Cell Cycle., Vol. 6, (2007), pp. 1342-1349.

Casaletto, J.B., Nutt, L.K., Wu, Q., Moore, J.D., Etkin, L.D., Jackson, P.K., Hunt, T., and Kornbluth, S.:
Inhibition of the anaphase-promoting complex by the Xnf7 ubiquitin ligase,
J Cell Biol., Vol. 169, (2005), pp. 61-71.

Esashi F, Christ N, Gannon J, Liu Y, Hunt T, Jasin M, West SC.:
CDK-dependent phosphorylation of BRCA2 as a regulatory mechanism for recombinational repair,
Nature, Vol. 434, (2005), pp. 598-604.

Dinarina, A., Perez, L.H., Davila, A., Schwab, M., Hunt, T. and Nebreda A.R.:
Characterization of a new family of cyclin-dependent kinase activators,
Biochem J., Vol. 386, (2005), pp. 349-55.

Yamano H, Kominami KI, Harrison C, Kitamura K, Katayama S, Dhut S, Hunt T, Toda T.:
Requirement of the SCFPop1/Pop2 ubiquitin ligase for degradation of the fission yeast S-phase cyclin Cig2,
J Biol Chem., Vol. 279, (2004), pp. 18974-18980.

Yamano, H., Gannon, J. Mahbubani, H. and Hunt, T.:
Cell-cycle regulated recognition of the destruction box of cyclin B by the APC/C in Xenopus egg extracts,
Molecular Cell, Vol. 13, (2004), pp. 137-147.