The thin filaments of smooth muscles

Peptide mapping by limited proteolysis in sodium dodecyl sulfate and analysis by gel electrophoresis.

1977 • 5,640 citations

The Regulation of Rabbit Skeletal Muscle Contraction

1971 • 4,491 citations

ATPase Activity of Myosin Correlated with Speed of Muscle Shortening

1967 • 1,969 citations

[18] Purification of muscle actin

1982 • 1,186 citations

FORMATION OF ARROWHEAD COMPLEXES WITH HEAVY MEROMYOSIN IN A VARIETY OF CELL TYPES

1969 • 963 citations

A 130K protein from chicken gizzard: Its localization at the termini of microfilament bundles in cultured chicken cells

1979 • 794 citations

α-Actinin: Immunofluorescent localization of a muscle structural protein in nonmuscle cells

1975 • 599 citations

The structure of F-actin and of actin filaments isolated from muscle

1963 • 560 citations

Structural Changes in the Actin- and Myosin-eontaining Filaments during Contraction

1973 • 544 citations

The Complete Amino Acid Sequence of Actins from Bovine Aorta, Bovine Heart, Bovine Fast Skeletal Muscle, and Rabbit, Slow Skeletal Muscle

1979 • 534 citations

Vinculin, an intracellular protein localized at specialized sites where microfilament bundles terminate at cell membranes.

1980 • 502 citations

Actin-binding proteins—regulators of cell architecture and motility

1982 • 468 citations

Purification of a calmodulin-binding protein from chicken gizzard that interacts with F-actin.

1981 • 425 citations

A rapid purification of alpha-actinin, filamin, and a 130,000-dalton protein from smooth muscle.

1980 • 395 citations

A new protein of adhesion plaques and ruffling membranes.

1983 • 395 citations

The 14-fold periodicity in α-tropomyosin and the interaction with actin

1976 • 388 citations

Immunoelectron microscope studies of membrane-microfilament interactions: distributions of alpha-actinin, tropomyosin, and vinculin in intestinal epithelial brush border and chicken gizzard smooth muscle cells.

1981 • 386 citations

Excitation‐Contraction Coupling in Smooth Muscle

1978 • 372 citations

Regulation of muscular contraction. Distribution of actin control and myosin control in the animal kingdom.

1975 • 355 citations

Co-existence of vinculin and a vinculin-like protein of higher molecular weight in smooth muscle.

1982 • 343 citations

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

1978 • 329 citations

Smooth muscle caldesmon. Rapid purification and F-actin cross-linking properties.

1984 • 321 citations

Filamin, a new high-molecular-weight protein found in smooth muscle and non-muscle cells.

1975 • 317 citations

Electron microscopy of muscular arteries; pial vessels of the cat and monkey

1960 • 293 citations

Theoretical model for the cooperative equilibrium binding of myosin subfragment 1 to the actin-troponin-tropomyosin complex.

1980 • 279 citations

A filamentous cytoskeleton in vertebrate smooth muscle fibers.

1976 • 252 citations

Comparison of the myosin and actomyosin ATPase mechanisms of the four types of vertebrate muscles

1980 • 250 citations

Chordate muscle actins differ distinctly from invertebrate muscle actins

1984 • 243 citations

Inhibition of smooth muscle actin-activated myosin Mg2+-ATPase activity by caldesmon.

1984 • 243 citations

Actin and tropomyosin variants in smooth muscles. Dependence on tissue type.

1984 • 240 citations

Interaction of alpha-actinin and vinculin with actin: opposite effects on filament network formation.

1981 • 230 citations

Preparation and Properties of Vertebrate Smooth‐Muscle Myofibrils and Actomyosin

1975 • 227 citations

Chemical and immunochemical characteristics of tropomyosins from striated and smooth muscle

1974 • 217 citations

Some properties of purified skeletal muscle alpha-actinin.

1976 • 215 citations

Localization of 6S component of α-Actinin at Z-band*

1967 • 207 citations

Regulation of the actin-myosin interaction in vertebrate smooth muscle: Activation via a myosin light-chain kinase and the effect of tropomyosin

1977 • 205 citations

The contractile apparatus of vascular smooth muscle: Intermediate high voltage stereo electron microscopy

1975 • 198 citations

Tropomyosin: Amino Acid Sequence and Coiled-Coil Structure

1973 • 197 citations

Equilibrium of the actin-tropomyosin interaction

1979 • 194 citations

Contractile systems in non-muscle tissues

1977 • 193 citations

Actin-binding proteins

1982 • 192 citations

The existence of an insoluble Z disc scaffold in chicken skeletal muscle

1978 • 192 citations

Troponin C-like proteins (calmodulins) from mammalian smooth muscle and other tissues

1979 • 177 citations

Filament arrangements in negatively stained cultured cells: the organization of actin.

1978 • 173 citations

The Croonian Lecture, 1979: Regulation of muscle contraction

1980 • 170 citations

Identification and localization of immunoreactive forms of caldesmon in smooth and nonmuscle cells: a comparison with the distributions of tropomyosin and alpha-actinin.

1985 • 170 citations

Myosin-linked calcium regulation in vertebrate smooth muscle

1976 • 169 citations

Dense bodies and actin polarity in vertebrate smooth muscle.

1982 • 165 citations

Manifestations of Cooperative Behavior in the Regulated Actin Filament during Actin-Activated ATP Hydrolysis in the Presence of Calcium

1973 • 163 citations

<b>CONTROL OF ACTIN-MYOSIN INTERACTION OF GIZZARD SMOOTH MUSCLE BY CALMODULIN- AND CALDESMONLINKED FLIP-FLOP </b><b>MECHANISM </b>

1982 • 162 citations

Myosin filaments have non-phosphorylated light chains in relaxed smooth muscle

1981 • 155 citations

A new model for the geometry of the binding of myosin crossbridges to muscle thin filaments

1981 • 152 citations

Caldesmon is a Ca2+-regulatory component of native smooth-muscle thin filaments

1985 • 148 citations

LE COMPLEXE MEMBRANAIRE SUPERFICIEL ET SON EVOLUTION LORS DE L'ELABORATION DES INDIVIDUS-FILS CHEZ TOXOPLASMA GONDII

1969 • 146 citations

Studies on purified α-actinin

1972 • 145 citations

The ultracentrifugal separation of L-myosin and actin in an actomyosin sol under the influence of ATP

1956 • 141 citations

A New Protein Factor promoting Contraction of Actomyosin

1964 • 141 citations

Occurrence of caldesmon (a calmodulin-binding protein) in cultured cells: comparison of normal and transformed cells.

1984 • 139 citations

Structural Changes in Actin-containing Filaments of Muscle

1972 • 137 citations

Biochemistry of smooth muscle

1983 • 133 citations

Interaction of filamin with f-actin in solution.

1977 • 133 citations

Control of the cytoskeleton by calmodulin and calmodulin-binding proteins

1983 • 132 citations

Myosin-linked regulatory systems

1981 • 132 citations

Detection of vinculin-binding proteins with an 125I-vinculin gel overlay technique.

1983 • 129 citations

The influence of caldesmon on ATPase activity of the skeletal muscle actomyosin and bundling of actin filaments

1985 • 125 citations

High-affinity interaction of vinculin with actin filaments in vitro

1982 • 125 citations

Isolation of the native form of chicken gizzard myosin light-chain kinase

1984 • 125 citations

The contractile proteins of smooth muscle. Properties and components of a Ca2+-sensitive actomyosin from chicken gizzard

1975 • 122 citations

Studies on isolated smooth muscle cells: the contractile apparatus

1977 • 120 citations

The structure of F-actin

1985 • 118 citations

The regulation of smooth muscle contractile proteins

1983 • 116 citations

Myosin linked calcium regulation in vertebrate smooth muscle

1974 • 116 citations

Properties of smooth muscle vinculin.

1984 • 116 citations

Filamin-actin interaction. Dissociation of binding from gelation by Ca2+-activated proteolysis.

1978 • 113 citations

FILAMENT ULTRASTRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION IN VERTEBRATE SMOOTH MUSCLE

1967 • 112 citations

Geometry of actin-membrane attachments in the smooth muscle cell: the localisations of vinculin and alpha-actinin.

1985 • 112 citations

The binding of smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase and phosphatases to actin and myosin.

1984 • 108 citations

Calcium ion-regulated thin filaments from vascular smooth muscle

1980 • 103 citations

Purification and properties of Ca2+-regulated thin filaments and F-actin from sheep aorta smooth muscle

1984 • 102 citations

Three-dimensional structure of the complex of skeletal muscle actin and bovine pancreatic DNAse I at 6-A resolution.

1981 • 100 citations

I. Cellular structures and electrophysiological behaviour: Fine structure of smooth muscle

1973 • 99 citations

Actin-membrane interaction in fibroblasts: what proteins are involved in this association?

1984 • 98 citations

Chemical energetics of force development, force maintenance, and relaxation in mammalian smooth muscle.

1980 • 97 citations

Distribution of alpha-actinin in single isolated smooth muscle cells

1983 • 96 citations

Binding of gizzard smooth muscle myosin subfragment-1 to actin in the presence and absence of adenosine 5'-triphosphate

1983 • 94 citations

THE ORGANIZATION OF CONTRACTILE FILAMENTS IN A MAMMALIAN SMOOTH MUSCLE

1970 • 92 citations

Coupling between the enzymatic site of myosin and the mechanical output of muscle

1979 • 90 citations

Chicken‐Gizzard Actin: Polymerization and Stability

1980 • 90 citations

Meta-vinculin—a vinculin-related protein with solubility properties of a membrane protein

1982 • 88 citations

Proteolysis and structure of skeletal muscle actin.

1984 • 88 citations

Structural comparison of several actin-binding macromolecules.

1980 • 87 citations

Studies on the composition and polymerization of actin.

1948 • 81 citations

Differences in cellular contractile protein contents among porcine smooth muscles: evidence for variation in the contractile system.

1978 • 80 citations

Mechanism of inhibition of relaxation by N-ethylmaleimide treatment of myosin

1976 • 79 citations

A Ca²⁺‐dependent actin modulator from vertebrate smooth muscle

1984 • 77 citations

Advances in protein phosphatases

1985 • 75 citations

The amino acid sequence of actin from chicken skeletal muscle actin and chicken gizzard smooth muscle actin

1979 • 74 citations

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

1981 • 73 citations

Amino acid sequence of chicken gizzard beta-tropomyosin. Comparison of the chicken gizzard, rabbit skeletal, and equine platelet tropomyosins.

1985 • 71 citations

-Actinin and Vinculin from Nonmuscle Cells: Calcium-sensitive Interactions with Actin

1982 • 70 citations

Interaction Of α-actinin, filamin and tropomyosin with F-actin

1979 • 70 citations

Disassembly and reconstitution of the Ca²⁺‐sensitive thin filaments of vascular smooth muscle

1985 • 68 citations

Comparison of the effects of tropomyosin and troponin-tropomyosin on the binding of myosin subfragment 1 to actin

1983 • 66 citations

Comparison of the effects of smooth and skeletal tropomyosin on skeletal actomyosin subfragment 1 ATPase.

1984 • 64 citations

Comparison of effects of smooth and skeletal muscle tropomysins on interactions of actin and myosin subfragment 1

1984 • 62 citations

The binding of smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase to actin

1982 • 62 citations

Isolation and sequence of a cDNA clone that contains the entire coding region for chicken smooth-muscle alpha-tropomyosin.

1984 • 57 citations

Caldesmon, a calmodulin‐binding, F actin‐interacting protein, is present in aorta, uterus and platelets

1983 • 57 citations

Filament Organization and Contractile Function in Vertebrate Smooth Muscle

1979 • 52 citations

Ca2+ Regulation in Vascular Smooth Muscle: II. Ca2+ Binding of Aorta Leiotonin1

1980 • 52 citations

The Conformational Stabilities of Tropomyosins

1976 • 51 citations

Amino acid sequence of chicken gizzard gamma-tropomyosin.

1985 • 50 citations

Filamin inhibits actin activation of heavy meromyosin ATPase

1977 • 48 citations

Chicken gizzard tropomyosin: head-to-tail assembly and interaction with F-actin and troponin

1984 • 45 citations

Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent regulation of F-actin-myelin basic protein interaction.

1984 • 44 citations

alpha-Actinins from Chicken Skeletal Muscle and Smooth Muscle Show Considerable Chemical and Immunological Differences

1979 • 44 citations

Tropomyosin Inhibits the Interaction of F-Actin and Filamin1

1978 • 44 citations

Steady-state kinetic studies on the actin activation of skeletal muscle heavy meromyosin subfragments

1982 • 43 citations

Phosphorylation reaction of vertebrate smooth muscle myosin: an enzyme kinetic analysis

1985 • 42 citations

Effects of calcium and magnesium on the actomyosin adenosine 5'-triphosphatase of stably phosphorylated gizzard myosin

1985 • 42 citations

Vinculin and -Actinin: Interaction with Actin and Effect on Microfilament Network Formation

1982 • 41 citations

Modulation of the actin-activated adenosine triphosphatase activity of myosin by tropomyosin from vascular and gizzard smooth muscles

1984 • 40 citations

Ca2+ Regulation in Vascular Smooth Muscle1

1977 • 40 citations

Effect of Muscle and Non-muscle Tropomyosins in Reconstituted Skeletal Muscle Actomyosin

1981 • 40 citations

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

1982 • 39 citations

Structure of the Actin-containing Filaments in Vertebrate Skeletal Muscle

1973 • 39 citations

Uterine smooth muscle: Troponin

1971 • 38 citations

Organization of Actin in a Mammalian Smooth Muscle

1968 • 37 citations

Bundling of actin filaments by aorta caldesmon is not related to its regulatory function

1985 • 36 citations

Phosphorylation of the calcium ion-regulated thin filaments from vascular smooth muscle A new regulatory mechanism?

1981 • 34 citations

A Study of Uterine Actin^*

1965 • 34 citations

Proteins and Complexes That Affect Actin-filament Assembly and Interactions

1982 • 31 citations

Cellular thin filament protein contents and force generation in porcine arteries and veins.

1979 • 30 citations

Arterial Tropomyosin and a Relaxing Protein Fraction from Vascular Smooth Muscle

1972 • 29 citations

Crosslinking of actin filaments is caused by caldesmon aggregates, but not by its dimers

1985 • 29 citations

Activation of smooth muscle myosin by smooth and skeletal muscle actins

1981 • 28 citations

Physicochemical Studies on Bovine Cardiac Tropomyosin^*

1967 • 26 citations

Comparative studies of chicken gizzard and rabbit skeletal tropomyosin

1980 • 24 citations

Protein-protein interactions of proteolytic fragments of actin

1979 • 23 citations

The Form and Function of Actin

1984 • 22 citations

Regulatory mechanism in smooth muscle: actin-linked regulation.

1982 • 22 citations

Immunocytochemical demonstration of caldesmon (a calmodulin-binding, F-actin-interacting protein) in smooth muscle fibers and absorptive epithelial cells in the small intestine of the rat

1984 • 22 citations

Bovine aorta actin. Development of an improved purification procedure and comparison of polymerization properties with actins from other types of muscle

1985 • 21 citations

Protein-RNA interactions in belladonna mottle virus investigated by laser Raman spectroscopy

1985 • 20 citations

Preparation and characterization of bovine aortic actin

1985 • 20 citations

Two Forms of Chicken Gizzard F-Actin Depending on Preparation with or without Added Calcium

1978 • 20 citations

Biochemical and Ultrastructural Studies on Vertebrate Smooth Muscle

1973 • 19 citations

Chicken-gizzard actin. Interaction with skeletal-muscle myosin.

1980 • 19 citations

Chicken‐Gizzard Actin

1980 • 18 citations

Anti-troponin-T monoclonal antibody crossreacts with all muscle types

1984 • 18 citations

Mechanisms of the regulation of myofibrillar function in vascular smooth muscle

1984 • 17 citations

Potentiation of actomyosin ATPase activity by filamin

1984 • 15 citations

Influence of an actin‐modulating protein from smooth muscle on actin‐myosin interaction

1984 • 13 citations

Immunocytochemical demonstration for caldesmon and actin in the striated and smooth muscle cells and non-muscular cells of various organs of rats.

1984 • 12 citations

Actin from pig and rat uterus

1981 • 9 citations

A New Simple Method of Preparing Actin from Chicken Gizzard1

1985 • 8 citations

Purification of a troponin I‐like factor from pig platelet

1983 • 8 citations

The regulation by vinculin of filamin, α‐actinin, and spectrin tetramer‐induced actin sol‐gel transformation

1983 • 7 citations

Smooth muscle tropomyosin paracrystals

1982 • 7 citations

Nature of the Calcium Regulatory System of Bovine Arterial Actomyosin

1979 • 7 citations

Identification of a troponin‐I like protein in platelet preparations as histone H2B

1983 • 6 citations

The Nucleoside Triphosphate (NTP)-Induced Superprecipitation and NTPase Reaction of Chicken Gizzard Actomyosin as a Function of the NTP Concentration1

1981 • 3 citations

Troponin C-Like Protein in Chicken Gizzard Muscle

1979 • 3 citations

Isolation and Localization from Chicken Gizzard of an Inhibitory Protein for Mg2+-activated Skeletal Muscle Actomyosin ATPase

1978 • 3 citations

Thin filament linked regulation of vascular smooth muscle contraction

1986 • 2 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations