Creating new fluorescent probes for cell biology

J Zhang, RE Campbell, AY Ting… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2002 - nature.com
Fluorescent probes are one of the cornerstones of real-time imaging of live cells and a
powerful tool for cell biologists. They provide high sensitivity and great versatility while …

FRAP analysis of binding: proper and fitting

BL Sprague, JG McNally - Trends in cell biology, 2005 - cell.com
Dynamic molecular interactions are fundamental to all cellular processes. In vivo analyses of
these interactions are frequently done using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of binding reactions by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

BL Sprague, RL Pego, DA Stavreva, JG McNally - Biophysical journal, 2004 - cell.com
Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) is now widely used to investigate
binding interactions in live cells. Although various idealized solutions have been identified …

Myosin II activity regulates vinculin recruitment to focal adhesions through FAK-mediated paxillin phosphorylation

AM Pasapera, IC Schneider, E Rericha… - Journal of Cell …, 2010 - rupress.org
Focal adhesions (FAs) are mechanosensitive adhesion and signaling complexes that grow
and change composition in response to myosin II–mediated cytoskeletal tension in a …

Spatiotemporal feedback between actomyosin and focal-adhesion systems optimizes rapid cell migration

SL Gupton, CM Waterman-Storer - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Cells exhibit a biphasic migration-velocity response to increasing adhesion strength, with
fast migration occurring at intermediate extracellular matrix (ECM) concentration and slow …

Competition between microtubule-associated proteins directs motor transport

BY Monroy, DL Sawyer, BE Ackermann… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Within cells, motor and non-motor microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) simultaneously
converge on the microtubule. How the binding activities of non-motor MAPs are coordinated …

ReMAP** the microtubule landscape: How phosphorylation dictates the activities of microtubule‐associated proteins

A Ramkumar, BY Jong… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Classical microtubule‐associated proteins (MAPs) were originally identified based on their
co‐purification with microtubules assembled from mammalian brain lysate. They have since …

[HTML][HTML] Spindle checkpoint protein dynamics at kinetochores in living cells

BJ Howell, B Moree, EM Farrar, S Stewart, G Fang… - Current biology, 2004 - cell.com
Background: To test current models for how unattached and untense kinetochores prevent
Cdc20 activation of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) throughout the …

Strategies for organelle targeting of fluorescent probes

J Lin, K Yang, EJ New - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent tools have emerged as an important tool for studying the distinct chemical
microenvironments of organelles, due to their high specificity and ability to be used in non …

HDAC6 deacetylation of tubulin modulates dynamics of cellular adhesions

ADA Tran, TP Marmo, AA Salam, S Che… - Journal of cell …, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Genetic or pharmacological alteration of the activity of the histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6)
induces a parallel alteration in cell migration. Using tubacin to block deacetylation of α …