Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

Key Publications of Paul Nurse

Nurse, P. (1975) Genetic control of cell size at cell division in yeast. Nature 256: 547–551.

Nurse, P. and Thuriaux, P. (1980) Regulatory genes controlling mitosis in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 96: 627–637.

Beach, D., Durkacz, B., and Nurse, P. (1982) Functionally homologous cell cycle control genes in fission yeast and budding yeast. Nature 327: 31–35.

Russell, P. and Nurse, P. (1986) cdc25+ functions as an inducer in the mitotic control of fission yeast. Cell 45: 145–153.

Lee, M.G. and Nurse, P. (1987) Complementation used to clone a human homologue of the fission yeast cell cycle control gene cdc2+. Nature 327: 31–35.

Enoch, T. and Nurse, P. (1990) Mutation of fission yeast cell cycle control genes abolishes dependence of mitosis on DNA replication. Cell 60: 665–673.