Modulation of contraction by gelation/solation in a reconstituted motile model.

The Regulation of Rabbit Skeletal Muscle Contraction

1971 • 4,491 citations

Effects of cytochalasin and phalloidin on actin.

1987 • 1,989 citations

ACTIN AND ACTIN-BINDING PROTEINS. A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF MECHANISMS AND FUNCTIONS

1986 • 1,493 citations

Disruption of the Dictyostelium Myosin Heavy Chain Gene by Homologous Recombination

1987 • 984 citations

Fluorescent actin filaments move on myosin fixed to a glass surface.

1986 • 839 citations

Antisense RNA Inactivation of Myosin Heavy Chain Gene Expression in Dictyostelium discoideum

1987 • 677 citations

Nonmuscle Actin-Binding Proteins

1985 • 589 citations

Movement of myosin-coated fluorescent beads on actin cables in vitro

1983 • 502 citations

Viscometric analysis of the gelation of Acanthamoeba extracts and purification of two gelation factors.

1980 • 341 citations

Myosin I is located at the leading edges of locomoting Dictyostelium amoebae

1989 • 323 citations

Fluorescence ratio imaging microscopy: temporal and spatial measurements of cytoplasmic pH

1987 • 302 citations

Interactions of actin, myosin, and a new actin-binding protein of rabbit pulmonary macrophages. II. Role in cytoplasmic movement and phagocytosis.

1976 • 289 citations

Ca2+ Crossbridge Phosphorylation, and Contraction

1989 • 270 citations

Reversible phosphorylation of smooth muscle myosin, heavy meromyosin, and platelet myosin.

1981 • 259 citations

Cytochalasin B and the structure of actin gels

1979 • 234 citations

THE CONTRACTILE BASIS OF AMOEBOID MOVEMENT

1973 • 220 citations

The role of actin in the temperature-dependent gelation and contraction of extracts of Acanthamoeba.

1976 • 216 citations

The contractile basis of amoeboid movement: V. The control of gelation, solation, and contraction in extracts from dictyostelium discoideum

1977 • 199 citations

Structure of macrophage actin-binding protein molecules in solution and interacting with actin filaments

1981 • 188 citations

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1970 • 177 citations

Filamin, a new high-molecular-weight protein found in smooth muscle and nonmuscle cells. Purification and properties of chicken gizzard filamin

1977 • 165 citations

The gelation of actin by actin-binding protein.

1978 • 155 citations

Structure and mobility of actin filaments as measured by quasielastic light scattering, viscometry, and electron microscopy.

1986 • 148 citations

The Submicroscopic Properties of Cytoplasm as a Determinant of Cellular Function

1988 • 143 citations

Phosphorylation of Caldesmon Prevents Its Interaction with Smooth Muscle Myosin

1989 • 138 citations

The effects of caldesmon on smooth muscle heavy actomeromyosin ATPase activity and binding of heavy meromyosin to actin.

1986 • 138 citations

Light chain phosphorylation regulates the movement of smooth muscle myosin on actin filaments.

1985 • 127 citations

Cytoplasmic structure and contractility: the solation-contraction coupling hypothesis

1982 • 123 citations

Two classes of actin microfilaments are associated with the inner cytoskeleton of axons.

1988 • 97 citations

Contractile basis of ameboid movement. VII. The distribution of fluorescently labeled actin in living amebas.

1980 • 97 citations

Length distribution of F-actin in Dictyostelium discoideum.

1990 • 96 citations

The modification of actomyosin by α-actin

1967 • 94 citations

Modulation of cellular morphology and locomotory activity by antibodies against myosin.

1988 • 88 citations

The role of solation-contraction coupling in regulating stress fiber dynamics in nonmuscle cells.

1991 • 85 citations

Actin-binding protein amplifies actomyosin contraction, and gelsolin confers calcium control on the direction of contraction

1980 • 81 citations

A physical model of ATP-induced actin-myosin movement in vitro

1991 • 81 citations

Formation, transport, contraction, and disassembly of stress fibers in fibroblasts

1990 • 76 citations

Reconstitution and regulation of actin gel-sol transformation with purified filamin and villin.

1981 • 73 citations

The filamins: properties and functions

1985 • 69 citations

The structure of cortical cytoplasm

1982 • 66 citations

The isolation of motile cytoplasm from Amoeba proteus

1963 • 53 citations

Stimulation of Actomyosin Mg2+-ATPase Activity by a Brain Microtubule-Associated Protein Fraction. High-Molecular-Weight Actin-Binding Protein Is the Stimulating Factor

1981 • 50 citations

The organization and regulation of the macrophage actin skeleton

1988 • 49 citations

Brownian motion of inert tracer macromolecules in polymerized and spontaneously bundled mixtures of actin and filamin.

1990 • 43 citations

Effects of actin filament cross-linking and filament length on actin-myosin interaction.

1985 • 41 citations

Induction of either contractile or structural actin-based gels in sea urchin egg cytoplasmic extract.

1980 • 40 citations

Reconstitution of Ca²⁺‐sensitive gelation of actin filaments with filamin, caldesmon and calmodulin

1982 • 39 citations

Microheterogeneity of actin gels formed under controlled linear shear.

1988 • 36 citations

The effect of filament shortening on the mechanical properties of gel-filtered actin.

1988 • 35 citations

Interconversion of structural and contractile actin gels by insertion of myosin during assembly.

1983 • 32 citations

The depolymerization of actin by specific proteins from plasma and brain: A quantitative assay

1982 • 29 citations

Effects of myosin and heavy meromyosin on actin-related gelation of HeLa cell extracts.

1977 • 28 citations

Dual effect of filamin on actomyosin ATPase activity

1985 • 27 citations

The molecular mobility of α‐actinin and actin in a reconstituted model of gelation

1988 • 22 citations

Calcium-sensitive modulation of the actomyosin ATPase by fodrin.

1984 • 22 citations

A comparison of methods used to characterize gelation of actin in vitro

1984 • 20 citations