Motor proteins: Myosin V – the multi-purpose transport motor

Novel myosin heavy chain encoded by murine dilute coat colour locus

1991 • 534 citations

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae MYO2 gene encodes an essential myosin for vectorial transport of vesicles.

1991 • 471 citations

Brain myosin-V is a two-headed unconventional myosin with motor activity

1993 • 432 citations

Unconventional Myosins

1995 • 362 citations

Asymmetric Accumulation of Ash1p in Postanaphase Nuclei Depends on a Myosin and Restricts Yeast Mating-Type Switching to Mother Cells

1996 • 355 citations

The role of Myo2, a yeast class V myosin, in vesicular transport.

1995 • 324 citations

Mother Cell–Specific HO Expression in Budding Yeast Depends on the Unconventional Myosin Myo4p and Other Cytoplasmic Proteins

1996 • 299 citations

Immunofluorescence localization of the unconventional myosin, Myo2p, and the putative kinesin-related protein, Smy1p, to the same regions of polarized growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1994 • 290 citations

Actin and myosin function in directed vacuole movement during cell division in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1996 • 203 citations

Targeting of Chitin Synthase 3 to Polarized Growth Sites in Yeast Requires Chs5p and Myo2p

1997 • 201 citations

Function of Myosin-V in Filopodial Extension of Neuronal Growth Cones

1996 • 183 citations

Cultured melanocytes from dilute mutant mice exhibit dendritic morphology and altered melanosome distribution

1996 • 173 citations

The dilute-lethal (d) gene attacks a Ca2+ store in the dendritic spine of Purkinje cells in mice

1996 • 147 citations

Identification of MYO4, a second class V myosin gene in yeast

1994 • 130 citations

Enzymatic Characterization and Functional Domain Mapping of Brain Myosin-V

1996 • 122 citations

Biochemical and immunological characterization of p190-calmodulin complex from vertebrate brain: a novel calmodulin-binding myosin.

1992 • 112 citations

The unconventional myosin, Myo2p, is a calmodulin target at sites of cell growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1994 • 109 citations

Subcellular localization of myosin V in nerve growth cones and outgrowth from dilute-lethal neurons

1997 • 107 citations

Biochemical kinetic characterization of the Acanthamoeba myosin-I ATPase.

1996 • 99 citations

Cloning and characterization of myr 6, an unconventional myosin of the dilute/myosin-V family.

1996 • 90 citations

A lethal allele of dilute in the house mouse

1952 • 62 citations

Chromophore-assisted laser inactivation (CALI): probing protein functionin situ with a high degree of spatial and temporal resolution

1996 • 40 citations

A novel 190 kDa calmodulin-binding protein associated with brain actomyosin.

1988 • 28 citations

Asymmetric localization of Ash1 mRNA in S-cerevisiae as determined by fluorescent in situ hybridization.

1996 • 1 citations