The villin-like protein encoded by the Drosophila quail gene is required for actin bundle assembly during oogenesis

Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4

1970 • 253,849 citations

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

1987 • 59,130 citations

A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity

1983 • 26,063 citations

The Genome of Drosophila Melanogaster

1992 • 3,126 citations

CLUSTAL V: improved software for multiple sequence alignment

1992 • 2,421 citations

Ovarian development in Drosophila melanogaster

1970 • 1,436 citations

Developmental genetics of oogenesis

1993 • 858 citations

Functional cDNA libraries from Drosophila embryos

1988 • 604 citations

Structure of gelsolin segment 1-actin complex and the mechanism of filament severing

1993 • 574 citations

Organization, Chemistry, and Assembly of the Cytoskeletal Apparatus of the Intestinal Brush Border

1985 • 525 citations

Female sterile mutations on the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. II. Mutations blocking oogenesis or altering egg morphology.

1991 • 504 citations

Plasma and cytoplasmic gelsolins are encoded by a single gene and contain a duplicated actin-binding domain

1986 • 477 citations

Kelch encodes a component of intercellular bridges in Drosophila egg chambers

1993 • 436 citations

chickadee encodes a profilin required for intercellular cytoplasm transport during Drosophila oogenesis

1992 • 370 citations

The molecular organization of the Antennapedia locus of drosophila

1983 • 331 citations

Profilin mutations disrupt multiple actin-dependent processes during Drosophila development

1994 • 265 citations

Drosophila singed, a fascin homolog, is required for actin bundle formation during oogenesis and bristle extension.

1994 • 258 citations

Preferential transposition of Drosophila P elements to nearby chromosomal sites.

1993 • 253 citations

A central role for microtubules in the differentiation of Drosophila oocytes

1993 • 252 citations

Morphogenesis of Drosophila ovarian ring canals

1994 • 239 citations

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

1985 • 193 citations

Structure of the Drosophila BicaudalD protein and its role in localizing the posterior determinant nanos

1989 • 185 citations

Bicaudal-D, a Drosophila gene involved in developmental asymmetry: localized transcript accumulation in ovaries and sequence similarity to myosin heavy chain tail domains.

1989 • 178 citations

F-actin capping proteins

1993 • 175 citations

Severin, gelsolin, and villin share a homologous sequence in regions presumed to contain F-actin severing domains.

1988 • 170 citations

Villin induces microvilli growth and actin redistribution in transfected fibroblasts

1989 • 163 citations

An actin-binding site containing a conserved motif of charged amino acid residues is essential for the morphogenic effect of villin

1992 • 160 citations

The role of microfilaments in cytoplasmic streaming in Drosophila follicles

1986 • 151 citations

Nucleotide sequence of pig plasma gelsolin

1988 • 136 citations

Villin sequence and peptide map identify six homologous domains.

1988 • 136 citations

Sequence of human villin: a large duplicated domain homologous with other actin-severing proteins and a unique small carboxy-terminal domain related to villin specificity.

1988 • 129 citations

The F-actin capping proteins of Physarum polycephalum: cap42(a) is very similar, if not identical, to fragmin and is structurally and functionally very homologous to gelsolin; cap42(b) is Physarum actin.

1987 • 116 citations

F-actin rings are associated with the ring canals of the Drosophila egg chamber

1985 • 104 citations

THE GENETICS OF DOPA DECARBOXYLASE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER I. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DEFICIENCIES THAT DELETE THE DOPA-DECARBOXYLASE-DOSAGE-SENSITIVE REGION AND THE α-METHYL-DOPA-HYPERSENSITIVE LOCUS

1976 • 100 citations

Fascin, an echinoid actin-bundling protein, is a homolog of the Drosophila singed gene product.

1993 • 99 citations

Drosophila development

1989 • 95 citations

Villin expression in the visceral endoderm and in the gut anlage during early mouse embryogenesis.

1988 • 93 citations

6 Assembly of the Intestinal Brush Border Cytoskeleton

1992 • 91 citations

Mbh 1: a novel gelsolin/severin-related protein which binds actin in vitro and exhibits nuclear localization in vivo.

1991 • 87 citations

From the structure to the function of villin, an actin‐binding protein of the brush border

1990 • 86 citations

The function of the major cytoskeletal components of the brush border

1989 • 79 citations

Cloning of human erythroid dematin reveals another member of the villin family.

1993 • 72 citations

Structure and transcription of the singed locus of Drosophila melanogaster.

1991 • 64 citations

Microinjection of villin into cultured cells induces rapid and long-lasting changes in cell morphology but does not inhibit cytokinesis, cell motility, or membrane ruffling.

1990 • 64 citations

An actin footprint on villin. Single site substitutions in a cluster of basic residues inhibit the actin severing but not capping activity of villin.

1992 • 53 citations

THE GENETICS OF THE DORSAL-BICAUDAL-D REGION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1986 • 51 citations

The specialized cytoskeleton of theDrosophila egg chamber

1994 • 40 citations

The 100 kDa F‐actin capping protein of Dictyostelium amoebae is a villin prototype (‘protovillin’)

1993 • 39 citations

The molecular architecture of an insect midgut brush border cytoskeleton.

1992 • 29 citations

Identification of secreted and cytosolic gelsolin in Drosophila.

1994 • 28 citations

Ultrastructural analysis of the midgut of Drosophila auraria larvae. Morphological observations and their physiological implications

1984 • 27 citations

Cloning of a Secretory Gelsolin from Drosophila melanogaster

1993 • 26 citations