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- Masters Biochemistry Stanford University
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- The lamellipodium: where motility begins. (2002) (937)
- Nascent Focal Adhesions Are Responsible for the Generation of Strong Propulsive Forces in Migrating Fibroblasts (2001) (739)
- Interplay between Rac and Rho in the control of substrate contact dynamics (1999) (657)
- Microtubule Targeting of Substrate Contacts Promotes Their Relaxation and Dissociation (1999) (481)
- Studies on the function and composition of the 10-NM(100-A) filaments of vertebrate smooth muscle. (1977) (365)
- Organization of actin in the leading edge of cultured cells: influence of osmium tetroxide and dehydration on the ultrastructure of actin meshworks (1981) (361)
- The actin cytoskeleton. (1988) (355)
- Targeting, Capture, and Stabilization of Microtubules at Early Focal Adhesions (1998) (341)
- VASP dynamics during lamellipodia protrusion (1999) (340)
- Regulation of substrate adhesion dynamics during cell motility. (2002) (295)
- Arp2/3 complex interactions and actin network turnover in lamellipodia (2008) (295)
- Polarity of actin at the leading edge of cultured cells (1978) (289)
- Expression of intermediate filaments in cultured cells. (1981) (289)
- Assembling an actin cytoskeleton for cell attachment and movement. (1998) (282)
- Mechanosensing in actin stress fibers revealed by a close correlation between force and protein localization (2009) (266)
- Filopodia formation in the absence of functional WAVE- and Arp2/3-complexes. (2006) (263)
- Calponin and SM 22 as differentiation markers of smooth muscle: spatiotemporal distribution during avian embryonic development. (1993) (245)
- Actin filament organization in the fish keratocyte lamellipodium (1995) (243)
- Electron tomography reveals unbranched networks of actin filaments in lamellipodia (2010) (233)
- Microtubules meet substrate adhesions to arrange cell polarity. (2003) (229)
- Bicaudal D induces selective dynein‐mediated microtubule minus end‐directed transport (2003) (216)
- Clustering of VASP actively drives processive, WH2 domain‐mediated actin filament elongation (2008) (215)
- Differentially oriented populations of actin filaments generated in lamellipodia collaborate in pushing and pausing at the cell front (2008) (214)
- PIP(2)-PDZ domain binding controls the association of syntenin with the plasma membrane. (2002) (210)
- How do microtubules guide migrating cells? (2002) (202)
- Inhibitory signalling to the Arp2/3 complex steers cell migration (2013) (201)
- Raf-1 regulates Rho signaling and cell migration (2005) (199)
- The cytoskeleton of the vertebrate smooth muscle cell. (1998) (191)
- The comings and goings of actin: coupling protrusion and retraction in cell motility. (2005) (190)
- Building the actin cytoskeleton: filopodia contribute to the construction of contractile bundles in the lamella (2008) (184)
- Smooth muscle specific expression of calponin (1990) (182)
- ADF/Cofilin-Mediated Actin Retrograde Flow Directs Neurite Formation in the Developing Brain (2012) (180)
- E-cadherin endocytosis regulates the activity of Rap1: a traffic light GTPase at the crossroads between cadherin and integrin function (2005) (179)
- Functional design in the actin cytoskeleton. (1999) (178)
- Contact formation during fibroblast locomotion: involvement of membrane ruffles and microtubules (1988) (178)
- Hyaluronic Acid (Ha) Binding to Cd44 Activates Rac1 and Induces Lamellipodia Outgrowth (2000) (172)
- Nanometer targeting of microtubules to focal adhesions (2003) (170)
- Localization of filamin in smooth muscle (1986) (170)
- Regulation of the actin-myosin interaction in vertebrate smooth muscle: activation via a myosin light-chain kinase and the effect of tropomyosin. (1977) (168)
- Complementary distributions of vinculin and dystrophin define two distinct sarcolemma domains in smooth muscle (1993) (168)
- Cytoskeleton-associated plectin: in situ localization, in vitro reconstitution, and binding to immobilized intermediate filament proteins (1988) (165)
- The SM 22 promoter directs tissue-specific expression in arterial but not in venous or visceral smooth muscle cells in transgenic mice. (1996) (162)
- Actin isoform compartments in chicken gizzard smooth muscle cells. (1994) (162)
- The cytoskeletal lattice of muscle cells. (1992) (160)
- Visualising the actin cytoskeleton (1999) (159)
- The Abl interactor proteins localize to sites of actin polymerization at the tips of lamellipodia and filopodia (2001) (159)
- The contractile apparatus of smooth muscle. (1980) (156)
- Load Adaptation of Lamellipodial Actin Networks (2017) (145)
- Architecture and polypeptide composition of HeLa cytoskeletons. Modification of cytoarchitectural polypeptides during mitosis. (1982) (140)
- Molecular mechanism of Ena/VASP-mediated actin-filament elongation (2011) (137)
- Modulation of substrate adhesion dynamics via microtubule targeting requires kinesin-1 (2002) (135)
- IRSp53 is colocalised with WAVE2 at the tips of protruding lamellipodia and filopodia independently of Mena (2003) (133)
- Cofilin cooperates with fascin to disassemble filopodial actin filaments (2011) (132)
- Actin branching in the initiation and maintenance of lamellipodia (2012) (130)
- Ultrastructural localization of alpha-actinin and filamin in cultured cells with the immunogold staining (IGS) method (1984) (130)
- Diversified actin protrusions promote environmental exploration but are dispensable for locomotion of leukocytes (2016) (129)
- Calponin is localised in both the contractile apparatus and the cytoskeleton of smooth muscle cells. (1994) (126)
- Studies on isolated smooth muscle cells: The contractile apparatus. (1977) (124)
- F- and G-Actin Concentrations in Lamellipodia of Moving Cells (2009) (121)
- Caldesmon is an elongated, flexible molecule localized in the actomyosin domains of smooth muscle. (1986) (121)
- Myosin-linked calcium regulation in vertebrate smooth muscle. (1976) (121)
- Viral infections and IgM autoantibodies to cytoplasmic intermediate filaments. (1979) (120)
- Tensile stress stimulates microtubule outgrowth in living cells. (2001) (119)
- Coordination of protrusion and translocation of the keratocyte involves rolling of the cell body (1996) (118)
- Putative association of mitochondria with a subpopulation of intermediate-sized filaments in cultured human skin fibroblasts (1982) (118)
- Zyxin is not colocalized with vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) at lamellipodial tips and exhibits different dynamics to vinculin, paxillin, and VASP in focal adhesions. (2001) (117)
- Direct visualization of the 10-nm (100-A)-filament network in whole and enucleated cultured cells. (1978) (116)
- The Isolated Comet Tail Pseudopodium of Listeria monocytogenes: A Tail of Two Actin Filament Populations, Long and Axial and Short and Random (1997) (115)
- Calponin and SM 22 isoforms in avian and mammalian smooth muscle. Absence of phosphorylation in vivo. (1992) (114)
- Geometry of actin‐membrane attachments in the smooth muscle cell: the localisations of vinculin and alpha‐actinin. (1985) (111)
- Ca-regulation of mammalian smooth muscle actomyosin via a kinase-phosphatase-dependent phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of the 20 000-Mr light chain of myosin. (1977) (110)
- Filopodia formation induced by active mDia2/Drf3 (2008) (110)
- Structural basis of contraction in vertebrate smooth muscle. (1972) (109)
- Scar/WAVE is localised at the tips of protruding lamellipodia in living cells (2001) (105)
- Paxillin-dependent stimulation of microtubule catastrophes at focal adhesion sites (2008) (105)
- Cortactin promotes migration and platelet-derived growth factor-induced actin reorganization by signaling to Rho-GTPases. (2009) (104)
- Mammalian calponin (1993) (102)
- Lamellipodia architecture: actin filament turnover and the lateral flow of actin filaments during motility. (1994) (100)
- Organization of actin meshworks in cultured cells: the leading edge. (1982) (96)
- The Organization of Myosin and Actin in Vertebrate Smooth Muscle (1970) (95)
- Structure‐function relationships in smooth muscle: The missing links (1995) (95)
- Mode of filament assembly of myosins from muscle and nonmuscle cells. (1978) (91)
- Filament arrangements in negatively stained cultured cells: the organization of actin. (1978) (86)
- Actin-independent association of vinculin with the cytoplasmic aspect of the plasma membrane in cell-contact areas (1983) (85)
- Fluorescent phallotoxins as probes for filamentous actin (1988) (80)
- Coexistence of three major isoactins in a single sarcoma 180 cell (1981) (79)
- The last but not the least: the origin and significance of trailing adhesions in fibroblastic cells. (2005) (76)
- The cytoskeletal and contractile apparatus of smooth muscle: contraction bands and segmentation of the contractile elements (1990) (75)
- Actin and the coordination of protrusion, attachment and retraction in cell crawling (1996) (73)
- Enforced polarisation and locomotion of fibroblasts lacking microtubules (2000) (71)
- A Ca2+‐dependent actin modulator from vertebrate smooth muscle (1984) (71)
- KCNJ15/Kir4.2 couples with polyamines to sense weak extracellular electric fields in galvanotaxis (2015) (71)
- β‐actin specific monoclonal antibody (1994) (70)
- Smoothelin expression characteristics: development of a smooth muscle cell in vitro system and identification of a vascular variant. (1997) (69)
- Arp2/3 complex is essential for actin network treadmilling as well as for targeting of capping protein and cofilin (2013) (68)
- Structural Units in Chromatin and their Orientation on Membranes (1968) (67)
- Contractile units in vertebrate smooth muscle cells (1974) (66)
- Microfilament-based motility in non-muscle cells. (1989) (66)
- Antibody staining of 10-nm (100-A) filaments in cultured smooth, cardiac and skeletal muscle cells. (1979) (64)
- Mechanical alterations in smooth muscle from mice lacking desmin (1998) (63)
- Unique geometry of actin-membrane anchorage sites in avian gizzard smooth muscle cells. (1989) (62)
- Unravelling the structure of the lamellipodium (2008) (61)
- PREL1 provides a link from Ras signalling to the actin cytoskeleton via Ena/VASP proteins (2005) (60)
- Cytoskeleton cross‐talk during cell motility (1999) (59)
- Shifting views on the leading role of the lamellipodium in cell migration: speckle tracking revisited (2009) (57)
- MTSS1 is a metastasis driver in a subset of human melanomas (2014) (54)
- Calponin reduces shortening velocity in skinned taenia coli smooth muscle fibres (1995) (54)
- Leading edge movement and ultrastructure in mouse macrophages. (1991) (53)
- Electron Tomography and Simulation of Baculovirus Actin Comet Tails Support a Tethered Filament Model of Pathogen Propulsion (2014) (52)
- SWAP-70 identifies a transitional subset of actin filaments in motile cells. (2003) (51)
- Getting the actin filaments straight: nucleation-release or treadmilling? (1995) (47)
- Calponin Developmental isoforms and a low molecular weight variant (1991) (47)
- Visualisation of the actin cytoskeleton by cryo-electron microscopy. (2002) (46)
- Modeling of the actin-cytoskeleton in symmetric lamellipodial fragments (2008) (45)
- Correlated light and electron microscopy of the cytoskeleton. (2008) (44)
- Studies on the specificity of smooth-muscle antibodies. (1976) (44)
- Porcine vinculin and metavinculin differ by a 68‐residue insert located close to the carboxy‐terminal part of the molecule. (1988) (44)
- Erythropoiesis in the yolk sac of the early chick embryo: an electron microscope and microspectrophotometric study. (1972) (41)
- Electron-microscope observations on the structure of condensed chromatin: evidence for orderly arrays of unit threads on the surface of chicken erythrocyte nuclei. (1970) (39)
- Localization of smoothelin in avian smooth muscle and identification of a vascular‐specific isoform (1997) (37)
- Live imaging of glioblastoma cells in brain tissue shows requirement of actin bundles for migration. (2006) (36)
- Supercontracted state of vertebrate smooth muscle cell fragments reveals myofilament lengths (1990) (36)
- Editorial OverviewCell structure and dynamics (2006) (34)
- Dicing with dogma: de-branching the lamellipodium (2010) (34)
- Reconstructing the orientation distribution of actin filaments in the lamellipodium of migrating keratocytes from electron microscopy tomography data (2012) (34)
- Intermediate filaments in monkey kidney TC7 cells: focal centers and interrelationship with other cytoskeletal systems. (1984) (34)
- Direct Determination of Actin Polarity in the Cell (2012) (33)
- Effect of muscle and non-muscle tropomyosins in reconstituted skeletal muscle actomyosin. (1981) (33)
- Coumarin-phalloidin: a new actin probe permitting triple immunofluorescence microscopy of the cytoskeleton. (1988) (33)
- Beta-actin specific monoclonal antibody. (1994) (33)
- Actin and cell movement. (1993) (31)
- INFLUENCE OF FLUCTUATING PHOSPHATE SUPPLY ON THE REGULATION OF PHOSPHATE UPTAKE BY THE BLUE‐GREEN ALGA ANACYSTZS NIDULANS1 (1995) (31)
- Reply: Visualizing branched actin filaments in lamellipodia by electron tomography (2011) (31)
- Conformational stability of the myosin rod. (1984) (30)
- Cytoskeleton cross‐talk during cell motility (1999) (30)
- PREL1 provides a link from Ras signalling to the actin cytoskeleton via Ena/VASP proteins. (2006) (28)
- The haemoglobin in the condensed chromatin of mature amphibian erythrocytes: a further study. (1970) (27)
- Visualization of actin filaments in keratocyte lamellipodia: negative staining compared with freeze-drying. (1994) (26)
- Pure F-actin networks are distorted and branched by steps in the critical-point drying method. (2002) (23)
- Mechanosensing in actin stress fibers revealed by a close correlation between force and protein localization (2009) (22)
- Reactivity of smooth-muscle antibodies with F- and G-actin. (1979) (22)
- Microfilament bundles in cultured cells. Correlation with anchorage independence and tumorigenicity in nude mice. (1978) (21)
- Actin filament tracking in electron tomograms of negatively stained lamellipodia using the localized radon transform. (2012) (21)
- The assembly of ribbon-shaped structures in low ionic strength extracts obtained from vertebrate smooth muscle. (1973) (19)
- Role of desmin in active force transmission and maintenance of structure during growth of urinary bladder. (2008) (18)
- Architecture of the Smooth Muscle Cell (1995) (17)
- Filaments from Purified Smooth Muscle Myosin (1973) (17)
- Metavinculin and vinculin from mammalian smooth muscle: Bulk isolation and characterization (1987) (17)
- Smooth muscle autoantibodies reacting with cytoplasmic intermediate filaments in sera from normal, nonimmunized rabbits. (1980) (17)
- Salt dependent dimerisation of caldesmon (1987) (16)
- Correlation between actin polymerization and surface receptor segregation in neuroblastoma cells treated with concanavalin A (1978) (16)
- Complex protein composition of isolated focal adhesions: A two‐dimensional gel and database analysis (1994) (15)
- Spectrally coded optical nanosectioning (SpecON) with biocompatible metal–dielectric-coated substrates (2013) (14)
- Cryoultramicrotomy and immunocytochemistry in the analysis of muscle fine structure. (1986) (13)
- Structural and biochemical analysis of skinned smooth muscle preparations (1987) (13)
- Smooth muscle differentiation in human myometrium and uterine leiomyoma (1993) (13)
- Aspects of Cell Architecture and Locomotion (1980) (13)
- Pushing with actin: from cells to pathogens. (2015) (12)
- Myosin filaments on the move (1988) (11)
- Paxillin-dependent stimulation of microtubule catastrophes at focal adhesion sites (2008) (10)
- Reversible helix‐coil transition of pig stomach myosin rod (1983) (10)
- Microfilament bundles in transformed mouse CLID x transformed CHO cell hybrids. Correlation with tumorigenicity in nude mice. (1979) (9)
- Cortactin Promotes Migration and PDGF-induced Actin Reorganization by Signaling to Rho-GTPases (2009) (8)
- Microtubules as Platforms for Assaying Actin Polymerization In Vivo (2011) (8)
- Variable and constant regions in the C‐terminus of vinculin and metavinculin (1993) (8)
- Elementary Cellular Processes Driven by Actin Assembly: Lamellipodia and Filopodia (2010) (8)
- Simple procedures for the transfer of grid images onto glass coverslips for the rapid relocation of cultured cells (1985) (7)
- Particle movement on microspikes. Absence of direct linkage with actin filaments. (1979) (6)
- Biomedical Research Publication System (2004) (6)
- Immunofluorescence Microscopy of the Cytoskeleton: Combination with Green Fluorescent Protein Tags (2006) (6)
- The Core Component of the Myosin-Containing Elements of Vertebrate Smooth Muscle (1973) (5)
- Actin networking in lamellipodia and beyond (2011) (4)
- Facing up to Mena: Tes(ting) times for EVH1 domains (2008) (4)
- Organisations of actin and fibroblast locomotion. (1982) (3)
- Immunocytochemistry of contractile and cytoskeletal proteins in smooth muscle: Lowicryl, LR White, and polyvinylalcohol compared (1987) (3)
- Properties of tropomyosin from the dual-regulated obliquely striated body wall muscle of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris L.) (1982) (3)
- Tumorigenicity, Actin Cables and Gene Expression in Mouse CLID × CHO Cell Hybrids (1980) (2)
- Probing cytoskeletal compartments (1991) (2)
- Review The cytoskeletallattice of muscle cells (1992) (1)
- Electron Microscopy of Extracted Cytoskeletons: Negative Staining, Cryoelectron Microscopy, and Correlation with Light Microscopy (2006) (1)
- ON THE MECHANISM OF FIBROBLAST LOCOMOTION (1981) (1)
- The cytoskeleton and its influence on shape, motility and receptor segregation in neuroblastoma cells. (1979) (1)
- Immunoelectron microscopical localization of actin, α-actinin and filamin with the IGS (Immuno Gold Staining) method in chicken embryo lung epithelial cells (1984) (1)
- Introduction: Actin and cell crawling (1994) (1)
- Correlative Live Cell Imaging and Negative Stain Electron Microscopy of Migrating Cells (2007) (1)
- Fluorescence enhancements and spectral modifications near the cut-off frequency of plasmonic structure (2012) (0)
- ß-Acün specific monoclonal antibody (1994) (0)
- Changes in the levels of human tropomyosins IEF 52,55, and 56 do not correlate with the loss of actin cables observed in SV 40 transformed MRC-5 fibroblasts (1986) (0)
- Abstracts of the XVIII European Conference on Muscle and Motility (1990) (0)
- SP-0012: Pushing cells and pathogens with actin (2014) (0)
- Variable and c ~ ~ sta ~ t regions in the C-terminus of vinculin and metavinculin Cloning and expression of fragments in E . coZi (2001) (0)
- Immunofluorescence microscopy of the cytoskeleton: combination with GFP tags (1996) (0)
- 100 a Filaments in Cultured Smooth, Cardiac and Skeletal-Muscle Cells (1977) (0)
- Vinculin Interaction with Perrneabilized Cells : Disruption and Reconstitution of a Binding Site (2002) (0)
- Supercontraction and segmentation of the contractile apparatus of smooth muscle (1990) (0)
- Molecular domain structure of porcine vinculin and metavinculin (1988) (0)
- 1K1636 A strutural analysis of actin cytoskeleton in the cell(Cell biology 1,The 49th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan) (2011) (0)
- Polarized Cell Motility: Microtubules Show the Way (2005) (0)
- Seeing More by Seeing Less: TIRFM Imaging of Cytoskeleton and Membrane Dynamics (2004) (0)
- Interrelationship of Intermediate Filaments with Microtubules and Microfilaments in Monkey Kidney TC7 Cells: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Contractile Proteins (1984) (0)
- Processing of human melanoma cells for correlative TEM, LVSEM, and LM (1991) (0)
- The cytoskeleton of spreadingDictyostelium amoebae (1987) (0)
- Invited Lectures (2008) (0)
- From test tube to microtub(ul)e: Assaying actin nucleation in vivo (2010) (0)
- Rap1: a traffic light GTPase at the crossroad between cadherin and integrin function (2005) (0)
- Actin isoform compartments in smooth muscle cells (1994) (0)
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