Localization of myosin IIB at the leading edge of growth cones from rat dorsal root ganglionic cells

Cytoskeletal dynamics and nerve growth

1988 • 855 citations

Actions of cytochalasins on the organization of actin filaments and microtubules in a neuronal growth cone.

1988 • 851 citations

Neuronal Cytomechanics: The Actin-Based Motility of Growth Cones

1988 • 331 citations

The visualization of actin filament polarity in thin sections. Evidence for the uniform polarity of membrane-associated filaments.

1978 • 329 citations

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

1989 • 323 citations

Human nonmuscle myosin heavy chains are encoded by two genes located on different chromosomes.

1991 • 270 citations

Polarity of actin at the leading edge of cultured cells

1978 • 268 citations

Beta actin and its mRNA are localized at the plasma membrane and the regions of moving cytoplasm during the cellular response to injury.

1991 • 216 citations

The organization of myosin and actin in rapid frozen nerve growth cones.

1989 • 215 citations

Chicken nonmuscle myosin heavy chains: differential expression of two mRNAs and evidence for two different polypeptides.

1991 • 211 citations

Mechanism of the formation of contractile ring in dividing cultured animal cells. II. Cortical movement of microinjected actin filaments.

1990 • 177 citations

Two distinct nonmuscle myosin‐heavy‐chain mRNAs are differentially expressed in various chicken tissues

1989 • 132 citations

Studies on the organization and localization of actin and myosin in neurons.

1979 • 121 citations

Human nonmuscle myosin heavy chain mRNA: generation of diversity through alternative polyadenylylation.

1990 • 121 citations

Myosin II distribution in neurons is consistent with a role in growth cone motility but not synaptic vesicle mobilization

1992 • 94 citations

Immunohistochemical studies on the distribution of cellular myosin II isoforms in brain and aorta

1992 • 49 citations

Studies on the distribution of cellular myosin with antibodies to isoform‐specific synthetic peptides

1991 • 46 citations