Exploitation of microfilament proteins byListeria monocytogenes: microvillus-like composition of the comet tails and vectorial spreading in polarized epithelial sheets

Actin filaments and the growth, movement, and spread of the intracellular bacterial parasite, Listeria monocytogenes.

1989 • 1,268 citations

L. monocytogenes-induced actin assembly requires the actA gene product, a surface protein

1992 • 790 citations

In vitro model of penetration and intracellular growth of Listeria monocytogenes in the human enterocyte-like cell line Caco-2

1987 • 714 citations

The rate of actin-based motility of intracellular Listeria monocytogenes equals the rate of actin polymerization

1992 • 533 citations

Ezrin contains cytoskeleton and membrane binding domains accounting for its proposed role as a membrane-cytoskeletal linker.

1993 • 427 citations

A novel bacterial virulence gene in Listeria monocytogenes required for host cell microfilament interaction with homology to the proline-rich region of vinculin.

1992 • 411 citations

Listeriosis

1989 • 329 citations

Salmonella Interactions with Polarized Human Intestinal Caco-2 Epithelial Cells

1990 • 325 citations

Listeria monocytogenes moves rapidly through the host-cell cytoplasm by inducing directional actin assembly.

1990 • 321 citations

Shigella flexneri enters human colonic Caco-2 epithelial cells through the basolateral pole

1992 • 315 citations

Intracellular and cell-to-cell spread of Listeria monocytogenes involves interaction with F-actin in the enterocytelike cell line Caco-2

1990 • 301 citations

Purification of an 80,000-dalton protein that is a component of the isolated microvillus cytoskeleton, and its localization in nonmuscle cells.

1983 • 294 citations

Involvement of profilin in the actin-based motility of L. monocytogenes in cells and in cell-free extracts

1994 • 282 citations

Microfilament Structure and Function in the Cortical Cytoskeleton

1991 • 276 citations

Structure, Distribution, and Origin of M Cells in Peyer’s Patches of Mouse Ileum

1984 • 275 citations

Role of M cells in initial antigen uptake and in ulcer formation in the rabbit intestinal loop model of shigellosis

1989 • 272 citations

cDNA cloning and sequencing of the protein-tyrosine kinase substrate, ezrin, reveals homology to band 4.1.

1989 • 253 citations

Polarized distribution of Listeria monocytogenes surface protein ActA at the site of directional actin assembly

1993 • 196 citations

Experimental Listeria enteritis. I. An electron microscopic study of the epithelial phase in experimental listeria infection.

1972 • 193 citations

Can villin be used to identify malignant and undifferentiated normal digestive epithelial cells?

1985 • 193 citations

The ActA protein of Listeria monocytogenes acts as a nucleator inducing reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton.

1994 • 188 citations

Membrane-actin microfilament connections: an increasing diversity of players related to band 4.1

1994 • 183 citations

How Listeria exploits host cell actin to form its own cytoskeleton. I. Formation of a tail and how that tail might be involved in movement.

1992 • 123 citations

Listeria monocytogenes. A model system for the molecular study of intracellular parasitism.

1989 • 121 citations

How Listeria exploits host cell actin to form its own cytoskeleton. II. Nucleation, actin filament polarity, filament assembly, and evidence for a pointed end capper.

1992 • 105 citations

Localization of the ActA polypeptide of Listeria monocytogenes in infected tissue culture cell lines: ActA is not associated with actin "comets"

1993 • 91 citations

The wily ways of a parasite: induction of actin assembly by Listeria

1993 • 87 citations

The function of the major cytoskeletal components of the brush border

1989 • 79 citations

Movement along actin filaments of the perijunctional area and de novo polymerization of cellular actin are required for Shigella flexneri colonization of epithelial Caco-2 cell monolayers

1992 • 64 citations

A marginal band-associated protein has properties of both microtubule- and microfilament-associated proteins.

1989 • 53 citations

Molecular Cloning, cDNA Sequence, and Chromosomal Assignment of the Human Radixin Gene and Two Dispersed Pseudogenes

1993 • 51 citations

Electron microscopic studies in experimental keratoconjunctivitis listeriosa. I. Penetration of Listeria monocytogenes into corneal epithelial cells.

1970 • 49 citations

Directional actin assembly by Listeria monocytogenes at the site of polar surface expression of the actA gene product involving the actin-bundling protein plastin (fimbrin).

1993 • 29 citations

The upright position of brush border-type microvilli depends on myosin filaments

1992 • 23 citations

Chicken antibodies to rabbit muscle actin with a restricted repertoire of F-actin recognition.

1994 • 8 citations