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A NOMPC-dependent membrane-microtubule connector is a candidate for the gating spring in fly mechanoreceptors.

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

A Piconewton Forcemeter Assembled from Microtubules and Kinesins

A doublecortin containing microtubule-associated protein is implicated in mechanotransduction in Drosophila sensory cilia

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A non-motor microtubule binding site is essential for the high processivity and mitotic function of kinesin-8 Kif18A

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A self-organized vortex array of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells

scientific article published in July 2005

A standardized kinesin nomenclature

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Analysing the ATP Turnover Cycle of Microtubule Motors

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Analysis of Microtubule Guidance in Open Microfabricated Channels Coated with the Motor Protein Kinesin†

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Assay of microtubule movement driven by single kinesin molecules.

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Assembly of collagen into microribbons: effects of pH and electrolytes.

scientific article published in December 2004

Bundling, sliding, and pulling microtubules in cells and in silico.

scientific article published on 21 May 2007

Calibration of optical tweezers with positional detection in the back focal plane

Cell-body rocking is a dominant mechanism for flagellar synchronization in a swimming alga

scientific article

Cellular motors for molecular manufacturing

scientific article published on October 2007

Chapter 7 Preparation of Marked Microtubules for the Assay of the Polarity of Microtubule-Based Motors by Fluorescence Microscopy

Coated microspheres as enhanced probes for optical trapping

Comment éviter la formation d’embouteillages de moteurs moléculaires lors du trafic intracellulaire ?

Compliance of the hair bundle associated with gating of mechanoelectrical transduction channels in the bullfrog's saccular hair cell

scientific article published in May 1988

Conformational changes during kinesin motility.

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Creating nanoscopic collagen matrices using atomic force microscopy

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Depolymerizing kinesins Kip3 and MCAK shape cellular microtubule architecture by differential control of catastrophe.

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Detection of fractional steps in cargo movement by the collective operation of kinesin-1 motors

scholarly article

Differentiation of cytoplasmic and meiotic spindle assembly MCAK functions by Aurora B-dependent phosphorylation.

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Displacement-weighted velocity analysis of gliding assays reveals that Chlamydomonas axonemal dynein preferentially moves conspecific microtubules

scientific article published on May 2013

Drosophila auditory organ genes and genetic hearing defects

scientific article published in August 2012

Dynamic curvature regulation accounts for the symmetric and asymmetric beats of Chlamydomonas flagella.

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Dynamics and mechanics of the microtubule plus end

scientific article published on April 17, 2003

EB1 recognizes the nucleotide state of tubulin in the microtubule lattice

scientific article

Elastic and damping forces generated by confined arrays of dynamic microtubules

scientific article published on 28 February 2006

Functional and spatial regulation of mitotic centromere-associated kinesin by cyclin-dependent kinase 1.

scientific article published on 5 April 2010

Functional surface attachment in a sandwich geometry of GFP-labeled motor proteins

scientific article published in January 2011

Growth, fluctuation and switching at microtubule plus ends

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Hearing mechanics: a fly in your ear.

scientific article published in September 2008

High-precision tracking of sperm swimming fine structure provides strong test of resistive force theory

scientific article published in April 2010

How molecular motors shape the flagellar beat.

scientific article published on September 2007

Hybrid four-headed myosin motor engineered with antagonistic motor domains

scientific article

Inhibition of kinesin motility by ADP and phosphate supports a hand-over-hand mechanism.

scholarly article

Islands containing slowly hydrolyzable GTP analogs promote microtubule rescues

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Joe Howard

scientific article published in September 2005

Jonathon Howard: motor proteins go walkabout. Interview by Caitlin Sedwick

scientific article published on January 2014

Kinesin ATPase

scientific article published in Nature

Kinesin Kip2 enhances microtubule growth in vitro through length-dependent feedback on polymerization and catastrophe

scientific article

Kinesin does not support the motility of zinc-macrotubes

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Kinesin follows the microtubule's protofilament axis

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Kinesin swivels to permit microtubule movement in any direction.

scientific article published on December 1993

Kinesin takes one 8-nm step for each ATP that it hydrolyzes

scientific article published in February 1999

Kinesin's processivity results from mechanical and chemical coordination between the ATP hydrolysis cycles of the two motor domains.

scientific article

Kinesin-8 Motors Act Cooperatively to Mediate Length-Dependent Microtubule Depolymerization

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Kinesin-8 is a low-force motor protein with a weakly bound slip state

scientific article published on June 2013

Kinetics and noise of transduction in insect photoreceptors

Ph.D. thesis of Jonathon Howard

Light-Controlled Molecular Shuttles Made from Motor Proteins Carrying Cargo on Engineered Surfaces

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Measurement of the membrane curvature preference of phospholipids reveals only weak coupling between lipid shape and leaflet curvature

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Mechanical signaling in networks of motor and cytoskeletal proteins.

scientific article published on January 2009

Mechanoelectrical transduction by hair cells

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Membrane invaginations reveal cortical sites that pull on mitotic spindles in one-cell C. elegans embryos

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Microtubule catastrophe and rescue

scientific article published on 22 October 2012

Microtubule dynamic instability: a new model with coupled GTP hydrolysis and multistep catastrophe.

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Microtubule dynamics reconstituted in vitro and imaged by single-molecule fluorescence microscopy.

scientific article published on January 2010

Microtubule polymerases and depolymerases

scientific article published on 20 December 2006

Minimum-energy vesicle and cell shapes calculated using spherical harmonics parameterization

Models of hair cell mechanotransduction

scientific article published on 17 April 2007

Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules

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Molecular dissection of the fibroblast-traction machinery

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Molecular motors. One giant step for kinesin

scientific article published on 01 October 1993

Molecular motors: single-molecule recordings made easy.

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Molecular motors: structural adaptations to cellular functions

scientific article (publication date: 9 October 1997)

Molecular profiling reveals synaptic release machinery in Merkel cells.

scholarly article

Molecular shuttles: directed motion of microtubules along nanoscale kinesin tracks

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Molecular-scale topographic cues induce the orientation and directional movement of fibroblasts on two-dimensional collagen surfaces

scientific article published on 9 April 2005

Motor regulation results in distal forces that bend partially disintegrated Chlamydomonas axonemes into circular arcs

scientific article published on June 2014

Movement of microtubules by single kinesin molecules

scientific article published in November 1989

NOMPC, a member of the TRP channel family, localizes to the tubular body and distal cilium of Drosophila campaniform and chordotonal receptor cells

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Ndel1-derived peptides modulate bidirectional transport of injected beads in the squid giant axon

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One-step purification of assembly-competent tubulin from diverse eukaryotic sources

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Optical trapping of coated microspheres

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Parallel Manipulation of Bifunctional DNA Molecules on Structured Surfaces Using Kinesin-Driven Microtubules

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Processivity of the motor protein kinesin requires two heads

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Protein friction limits diffusive and directed movements of kinesin motors on microtubules

scientific article published in August 2009

Protein power strokes

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Purification of tubulin from porcine brain

scientific article published in January 2011

Quantitative cell biology: the essential role of theory

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Rapid microtubule self-assembly kinetics

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Reconstitution and characterization of budding yeast gamma-tubulin complex

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Reconstitution of flagellar sliding

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Rigidity of microtubules is increased by stabilizing agents

scientific article published on August 1, 1995

Shapes of Red Blood Cells: Comparison of 3D Confocal Images with the Bilayer-Couple Model.

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Slow local movements of collagen fibers by fibroblasts drive the rapid global self-organization of collagen gels.

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Spherical harmonics-based parametric deconvolution of 3D surface images using bending energy minimization

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Spindle oscillations during asymmetric cell division require a threshold number of active cortical force generators

scientific article published in November 2006

Stiffness of sensory hair bundles in the sacculus of the frog

scientific article published on January 1986

Straight GDP-tubulin protofilaments form in the presence of taxol

scientific article published on 4 October 2007

Stretching and Transporting DNA Molecules Using Motor Proteins

Stu2, the budding yeast XMAP215/Dis1 homolog, promotes assembly of yeast microtubules by increasing growth rate and decreasing catastrophe frequency

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Studying kinesin motors by optical 3D-nanometry in gliding motility assays

scientific article published on January 2010

Surface Imaging by Self-Propelled Nanoscale Probes

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Surface forces and drag coefficients of microspheres near a plane surface measured with optical tweezers

scientific article published on 28 February 2007

Synergy between XMAP215 and EB1 increases microtubule growth rates to physiological levels

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The cell-end marker TeaA and the microtubule polymerase AlpA contribute to microtubule guidance at the hyphal tip cortex of Aspergillus nidulans to provide polarity maintenance

article by Norio Takeshita et al published 7 October 2013 in Journal of Cell Science

The depolymerizing kinesin MCAK uses lattice diffusion to rapidly target microtubule ends

scientific article (publication date: 4 May 2006)

The distance that kinesin-1 holds its cargo from the microtubule surface measured by fluorescence interference contrast microscopy

scientific article published on 11 October 2006

The distribution of active force generators controls mitotic spindle position

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The growth speed of microtubules with XMAP215-coated beads coupled to their ends is increased by tensile force.

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

The highly processive kinesin-8, Kip3, switches microtubule protofilaments with a bias toward the left

scientific article published on July 2012

The kinesin-13 MCAK has an unconventional ATPase cycle adapted for microtubule depolymerization.

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The kinesin-related protein MCAK is a microtubule depolymerase that forms an ATP-hydrolyzing complex at microtubule ends

scientific article published in February 2003

The microtubule-based cytoskeleton is a component of a mechanical signaling pathway in fly campaniform receptors

scientific article published on December 2014

The motility of axonemal dynein is regulated by the tubulin code.

scientific article published on December 2014

The movement of kinesin along microtubules

scientific article published on January 1996

Turing's next steps: the mechanochemical basis of morphogenesis

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Wrestling with kinesin

scientific article published in Nature

XMAP215 activity sets spindle length by controlling the total mass of spindle microtubules

scientific article published on 25 August 2013

XMAP215 is a processive microtubule polymerase

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XMAP215 polymerase activity is built by combining multiple tubulin-binding TOG domains and a basic lattice-binding region

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Yeast kinesin-8 depolymerizes microtubules in a length-dependent manner

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