Mechanical Properties of Actin Filament Networks Depend on Preparation, Polymerization Conditions, and Storage of Actin Monomers

Determination of molecular weights and frictional ratios of proteins in impure systems by use of gel filtration and density gradient centrifugation. Application to crude preparations of sulfite and hydroxylamine reductases

1966 • 2,239 citations

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

1986 • 1,493 citations

Elasticity of Semiflexible Biopolymer Networks

1995 • 1,019 citations

Viscoelastic properties of vimentin compared with other filamentous biopolymer networks.

1991 • 694 citations

Flexibility of Actin Filaments Derived from Thermal Fluctuations

1995 • 592 citations

The Polyelectrolyte Nature of F-actin and the Mechanism of Actin Bundle Formation

1996 • 398 citations

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

1980 • 341 citations

Local measurements of viscoelastic moduli of entangled actin networks using an oscillating magnetic bead micro-rheometer

1994 • 315 citations

The mechanical properties of actin gels. Elastic modulus and filament motions.

1994 • 282 citations

Theoretical estimates of mechanical properties of the endothelial cell cytoskeleton

1996 • 265 citations

F-actin, a model polymer for semiflexible chains in dilute, semidilute, and liquid crystalline solutions

1996 • 260 citations

Cross-linker dynamics determine the mechanical properties of actin gels

1994 • 246 citations

Resemblance of actin-binding protein/actin gels to covalently crosslinked networks

1990 • 240 citations

Physical networks : polymers and gels

1990 • 236 citations

Affinity of alpha-actinin for actin determines the structure and mechanical properties of actin filament gels

1993 • 231 citations

A Conformational Change in the Actin Subunit Can Change the Flexibility of the Actin Filament

1993 • 203 citations

Dynamics and Rheology of Actin Solutions

1996 • 201 citations

Force-Extension Relation and Plateau Modulus for Wormlike Chains

1996 • 197 citations

Temperature-induced sol-gel transition and microgel formation in α-actinin cross-linked actin networks: A rheological study

1996 • 171 citations

Structural Dynamics of F-Actin: II. Cooperativity in Structural Transitions

1995 • 156 citations

Tightly-bound divalent cation of actin

1992 • 140 citations

Effect of ATP on actin filament stiffness

1990 • 138 citations

The rate constant for ATP hydrolysis by polymerized actin

1984 • 127 citations

A Correlative Analysis of Actin Filament Assembly, Structure, and Dynamics

1997 • 121 citations

Viscoelasticity of F-actin and F-actin/gelsolin complexes

1988 • 107 citations

Nucleotide exchange, structure, and mechanical properties of filaments assembled from ATP-actin and ADP-actin.

1992 • 96 citations

Mechanical properties of actin.

1985 • 96 citations

Synchrony of cell spreading and contraction force as phagocytes engulf large pathogens

1993 • 92 citations

Viscoelastic moduli of sterically and chemically cross-linked actin networks in the dilute to semidilute regime: measurements by oscillating disk rheometer

1991 • 91 citations

Forces exerted by locomoting cells

1994 • 89 citations

Measurement of rate constants for actin filament elongation in solution

1983 • 88 citations

The actin filament severing protein actophorin promotes the formation of rigid bundles of actin filaments crosslinked with alpha-actinin.

1991 • 88 citations

Rheology of F-actin I. Network of F-actin in solution

1974 • 74 citations

Formation of liquid crystalline phase of actin filament solutions and its dependence on filament length as studied by optical birefringence

1991 • 71 citations

Formation of liquid crystals from actin filaments

1993 • 70 citations

Domain structure in actin-binding proteins: expression and functional characterization of truncated severin.

1991 • 70 citations

Some perspectives on the viscosity of actin filaments.

1982 • 63 citations

Physical basis of the rheologic properties of F-actin.

1983 • 62 citations

The viscoelasticity of entangled actin networks: the influence of defects and modulation by talin and vinculin

1993 • 61 citations

G-Actin: Preparation by gel filtration and evidence for a double stranded structure

1963 • 58 citations

Phalloidin Binding and Rheological Differences among Actin Isoforms

1996 • 56 citations

Actin gels

1997 • 55 citations

A reversible conformational transition in muscle actin is caused by nucleotide exchange and uncovers cysteine in position 10.

1991 • 47 citations

The effect of the 540-kilodalton actin cross-linking protein, actin-binding protein, on the mechanical properties of F-actin.

1986 • 39 citations

Two plateau moduli for actin gels

1997 • 38 citations

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

1988 • 35 citations

The viscoelastic properties of actin solutions

1982 • 34 citations

Nucleotide exchange and rheometric studies with F-actin prepared from ATP- or ADP-monomeric actin

1993 • 29 citations

Actin, biophysics, biochemistry and cell biology

1995 • 28 citations

Viscoelastic Properties of F-Actin Solutions in the Presence of Normal and Mutated Actin-Binding Proteins

1996 • 28 citations

Physical chemistry of actin: Past, present and future

1993 • 28 citations

Quantitation of cap Z in conventional actin preparations and methods for further purification of actin

1995 • 24 citations

Actin-Bound Nucleotide/Divalent Cation Interactions

1994 • 16 citations

Actin: biophysics, biochemistry and cell biology

1995 • 15 citations

Mg- and Ca-actin filaments appear virtually identical in steady-state as determined by dynamic light scattering

1995 • 11 citations

Elasticity and flow properties of actin gels

1990 • 9 citations

Rheological properties of liver actin solutions

1985 • 7 citations

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