Microtubule Transport in the Axon

Microtubule motors in mitosis

2000 • 580 citations

Microtubule Organizing Centers

1985 • 412 citations

Microtubule behavior in the growth cones of living neurons during axon elongation.

1991 • 343 citations

Rapid movement of axonal neurofilaments interrupted by prolonged pauses

2000 • 316 citations

Assembly of microtubules at the tip of growing axons

1986 • 277 citations

Intrinsic determinants of neuronal form and function

1989 • 264 citations

Reorganization and Movement of Microtubules in Axonal Growth Cones and Developing Interstitial Branches

1999 • 258 citations

Microtubule release from the centrosome

1997 • 252 citations

An Essential Role for Katanin in Severing Microtubules in the Neuron

1999 • 247 citations

Antagonistic microtubule-sliding motors position mitotic centrosomes in Drosophila early embryos

1999 • 246 citations

Neurofilaments Are Transported Rapidly But Intermittently in Axons: Implications for Slow Axonal Transport

2000 • 244 citations

Functional Coordination of Three Mitotic Motors inDrosophilaEmbryos

2000 • 238 citations

Cytoplasmic Dynein and Dynactin Are Required for the Transport of Microtubules into the Axon

1998 • 217 citations

Spindle assembly and the art of regulating microtubule dynamics by MAPs and Stathmin/Op18

2000 • 211 citations

Microtubules and Neuronal Polarity

1999 • 191 citations

Microtubule dynamics and tubulin interacting proteins

2000 • 171 citations

Slow axonal transport: stop and go traffic in the axon

2000 • 165 citations

Motor proteins regulate force interactions between microtubules and microfilaments in the axon

2000 • 164 citations

Microtubule polymer assembly and transport during axonal elongation.

1991 • 164 citations

Microtubule fragmentation and partitioning in the axon during collateral branch formation

1994 • 142 citations

Oligomeric Tubulin in Large Transporting Complex Is Transported via Kinesin in Squid Giant Axons

2000 • 129 citations

Identification of a Microtubule-associated Motor Protein Essential for Dendritic Differentiation

1997 • 129 citations

Microtubules released from the neuronal centrosome are transported into the axon

1995 • 126 citations

Different Contributions of Microtubule Dynamics and Transport to the Growth of Axons and Collateral Sprouts

1999 • 116 citations

A test of microtubule translocation during neurite elongation.

1990 • 115 citations

Slow axonal transport: the polymer transport model

1997 • 114 citations

The transport properties of axonal microtubules establish their polarity orientation.

1993 • 114 citations

Slow axonal transport: the subunit transport model

1997 • 114 citations

Cytoplasmic dynein is associated with slow axonal transport.

1996 • 113 citations

Expression of the Mitotic Motor Protein Eg5 in Postmitotic Neurons: Implications for Neuronal Development

1998 • 90 citations

Axonal transport of tubulin in tit pioneer neurons in situ

1995 • 86 citations

Force generation by cytoskeletal motor proteins as a regulator of axonal elongation and retraction

2001 • 79 citations

Slow transport of unpolymerized tubulin and polymerized neurofilament in the squid giant axon

1999 • 78 citations

Roles of motor proteins in building microtubule-based structures: a basic principle of cellular design

2000 • 60 citations

Microtubule transport and assembly during axon growth.

1996 • 59 citations

Speckle microscopic evaluation of microtubule transport in growing nerve processes

1999 • 57 citations

Tubulin transport in neurons.

1996 • 57 citations

Microtubule Transport from the Cell Body into the Axons of Growing Neurons

1997 • 55 citations

Transport and Turnover of Microtubules in Frog Neurons Depend on the Pattern of Axonal Growth

1998 • 53 citations

Delivery of newly synthesized tubulin to rapidly growing distal axons of sympathetic neurons in compartmented cultures.

1996 • 43 citations

The growth of the axon is not dependent upon net microtubule assembly at its distal tip

1995 • 37 citations

Region-Specific Microtubule Transport in Motile Cells

2000 • 37 citations

Millennial musings on molecular motors

1999 • 27 citations

Capturing a ring of samurai

2000 • 20 citations

6 The Neuronal Centrosome as a Generator of Microtubules for the Axon

1996 • 20 citations

Strategies for studying microtubule transport in the neuron

2000 • 19 citations