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Mooren OL, McConnell P, DeBrecht JD, Jaysingh A, Cooper JA. Reconstitution of Arp2/3-Nucleated Actin Assembly with CP, V-1 and CARMIL. bioRxiv. 2024 May 13;. doi: 10.1101/2024.05.13.593916. PubMed PMID: 38798690; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11118340.
Cooper JA. Capping protein regulators of actin assembly in budding yeast. J Cell Biol. 2024 Jan 1;223(1). doi: 10.1083/jcb.202312031. Epub 2023 Dec 12. PubMed PMID: 38085573; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10716226.
Mooren OL, Stuchell-Brereton MD, McConnell P, Yan C, Wilkerson EM, Goldfarb D, Cooper JA, Sept D, Soranno A. Biophysical Mechanism of Allosteric Regulation of Actin Capping Protein. J Mol Biol. 2023 Dec 15;435(24):168342. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168342. Epub 2023 Nov 2. PubMed PMID: 37924863; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10872493.
Mooren OL, Stuchell-Brereton MD, McConnell P, Yan C, Wilkerson EM, Goldfarb D, Cooper JA, Sept D, Soranno A. Biophysical Mechanism of Allosteric Regulation of Actin Capping Protein. bioRxiv. 2023 Aug 17;. doi: 10.1101/2023.08.16.553570. PubMed PMID: 37645735; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10462145.
Kim J, Mooren OL, Onken MD, Cooper JA. Septin and actin contributions to endothelial cell-cell junctions and monolayer integrity. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2023 Jul-Aug;80(7-8):228-241. doi: 10.1002/cm.21732. Epub 2022 Oct 17. Review. PubMed PMID: 36205643; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10079785.
Myers KR, Fan Y, McConnell P, Cooper JA, Zheng JQ. Actin capping protein regulates postsynaptic spine development through CPI-motif interactions. Front Mol Neurosci. 2022;15:1020949. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.1020949. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36245917; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9557104.
Stark BC, Gao Y, Sepich DS, Belk L, Culver MA, Hu B, Mekel M, Ferris W, Shin J, Solnica-Krezel L, Lin F, Cooper JA. CARMIL3 is important for cell migration and morphogenesis during early development in zebrafish. Dev Biol. 2022 Jan;481:148-159. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.09.008. Epub 2021 Sep 30. PubMed PMID: 34599906; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8781030.
Onken MD, Noda SE, Kaltenbronn KM, Frankfater C, Makepeace CM, Fettig N, Piggott KD, Custer PL, Ippolito JE, Blumer KJ. Oncogenic Gq/11 signaling acutely drives and chronically sustains metabolic reprogramming in uveal melanoma. J Biol Chem. 2022 Jan;298(1):101495. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101495. Epub 2021 Dec 14. PubMed PMID: 34919964; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8761705.
Onken MD, Blumer KJ, Cooper JA. Uveal melanoma cells use ameboid and mesenchymal mechanisms of cell motility crossing the endothelium. Mol Biol Cell. 2021 Mar 1;32(5):413-421. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E20-04-0241. Epub 2021 Jan 6. PubMed PMID: 33405963; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8098856.
Onken MD, Makepeace CM, Kaltenbronn KM, Choi J, Hernandez-Aya L, Weilbaecher KN, Piggott KD, Rao PK, Yuede CM, Dixon AJ, Osei-Owusu P, Cooper JA, Blumer KJ. Targeting primary and metastatic uveal melanoma with a G protein inhibitor. J Biol Chem. 2021 Jan-Jun;296:100403. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100403. Epub 2021 Feb 10. PubMed PMID: 33577798; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7948511.
Kim J, Cooper JA. Junctional Localization of Septin 2 Is Required for Organization of Junctional Proteins in Static Endothelial Monolayers. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 Jan;41(1):346-359. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.315472. Epub 2020 Nov 5. PubMed PMID: 33147991; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7769918.
McConnell P, Mekel M, Kozlov AG, Mooren OL, Lohman TM, Cooper JA. Comparative Analysis of CPI-Motif Regulation of Biochemical Functions of Actin Capping Protein. Biochemistry. 2020 Mar 24;59(11):1202-1215. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00092. Epub 2020 Mar 10. PubMed PMID: 32133840; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7301643.
Drewry LL, Jones NG, Wang Q, Onken MD, Miller MJ, Sibley LD. The secreted kinase ROP17 promotes Toxoplasma gondii dissemination by hijacking monocyte tissue migration. Nat Microbiol. 2019 Nov;4(11):1951-1963. doi: 10.1038/s41564-019-0504-8. Epub 2019 Jul 22. PubMed PMID: 31332383; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6814536.
Drewry LL, Sibley LD. The hitchhiker's guide to parasite dissemination. Cell Microbiol. 2019 Nov;21(11):e13070. doi: 10.1111/cmi.13070. Epub 2019 Jul 8. Review. PubMed PMID: 31219666; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6842094.
Kiehart DP, Cooper JA. Contractile protein biochemistry in the Pollard Lab in Baltimore. Biophys Rev. 2018 Dec;10(6):1483-1485. doi: 10.1007/s12551-018-0477-5. Epub 2018 Nov 8. Review. PubMed PMID: 30406899; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6297093.
Yen M, Qi Z, Chen X, Cooper JA, Mitra RD, Onken MD. Transposase mapping identifies the genomic targets of BAP1 in uveal melanoma. BMC Med Genomics. 2018 Nov 6;11(1):97. doi: 10.1186/s12920-018-0424-0. PubMed PMID: 30400891; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6219186.
Johnston AB, Hilton DM, McConnell P, Johnson B, Harris MT, Simone A, Amarasinghe GK, Cooper JA, Goode BL. A novel mode of capping protein-regulation by twinfilin. Elife. 2018 Oct 23;7. doi: 10.7554/eLife.41313. PubMed PMID: 30351272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6249002.
Onken MD, Makepeace CM, Kaltenbronn KM, Kanai SM, Todd TD, Wang S, Broekelmann TJ, Rao PK, Cooper JA, Blumer KJ. Targeting nucleotide exchange to inhibit constitutively active G protein α subunits in cancer cells. Sci Signal. 2018 Sep 4;11(546). doi: 10.1126/scisignal.aao6852. PubMed PMID: 30181242; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6279241.
Kim J, Cooper JA. Septins regulate junctional integrity of endothelial monolayers. Mol Biol Cell. 2018 Jul 15;29(13):1693-1703. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E18-02-0136. Epub 2018 May 17. PubMed PMID: 29771630; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6080707.
Johnson B, McConnell P, Kozlov AG, Mekel M, Lohman TM, Gross ML, Amarasinghe GK, Cooper JA. Allosteric Coupling of CARMIL and V-1 Binding to Capping Protein Revealed by Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange. Cell Rep. 2018 May 29;23(9):2795-2804. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.04.096. PubMed PMID: 29847807; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6282700.
Stewart-Hutchinson PJ, Szasz TP, Jaeger ER, Onken MD, Cooper JA, Morley SC. Technical Advance: New in vitro method for assaying the migration of primary B cells using an endothelial monolayer as substrate. J Leukoc Biol. 2017 Sep;102(3):941-948. doi: 10.1189/jlb.1TA0117-008R. Epub 2017 Jun 21. PubMed PMID: 28637896; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5557643.
Stark BC, Lanier MH, Cooper JA. CARMIL family proteins as multidomain regulators of actin-based motility. Mol Biol Cell. 2017 Jul 1;28(13):1713-1723. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E17-01-0019. PubMed PMID: 28663287; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5491179.
Santiago-Tirado FH, Onken MD, Cooper JA, Klein RS, Doering TL. Trojan Horse Transit Contributes to Blood-Brain Barrier Crossing of a Eukaryotic Pathogen. mBio. 2017 Jan 31;8(1). doi: 10.1128/mBio.02183-16. PubMed PMID: 28143979; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5285505.
Zhou JY, Szasz TP, Stewart-Hutchinson PJ, Sivapalan J, Todd EM, Deady LE, Cooper JA, Onken MD, Morley SC. L-Plastin promotes podosome longevity and supports macrophage motility. Mol Immunol. 2016 Oct;78:79-88. doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2016.08.012. Epub 2016 Sep 7. PubMed PMID: 27614263; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5205537.
Xu X, Wang X, Todd EM, Jaeger ER, Vella JL, Mooren OL, Feng Y, Hu J, Cooper JA, Morley SC, Huang YH. Mst1 Kinase Regulates the Actin-Bundling Protein L-Plastin To Promote T Cell Migration. J Immunol. 2016 Sep 1;197(5):1683-91. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1600874. Epub 2016 Jul 27. PubMed PMID: 27465533; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4992580.
Wang X, Galletta BJ, Cooper JA, Carlsson AE. Actin-Regulator Feedback Interactions during Endocytosis. Biophys J. 2016 Mar 29;110(6):1430-43. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.02.018. PubMed PMID: 27028652; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4816763.
Lanier MH, McConnell P, Cooper JA. Cell Migration and Invadopodia Formation Require a Membrane-binding Domain of CARMIL2. J Biol Chem. 2016 Jan 15;291(3):1076-91. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.676882. Epub 2015 Nov 17. PubMed PMID: 26578515; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4714192.
Lanier MH, Kim T, Cooper JA. CARMIL2 is a novel molecular connection between vimentin and actin essential for cell migration and invadopodia formation. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Dec 15;26(25):4577-88. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E15-08-0552. Epub 2015 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 26466680; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4678016.
Stark BC, Cooper JA. Differential expression of CARMIL-family genes during zebrafish development. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2015 Oct;72(10):534-41. doi: 10.1002/cm.21257. Epub 2015 Oct 23. PubMed PMID: 26426389; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4715748.
Edwards M, McConnell P, Schafer DA, Cooper JA. CPI motif interaction is necessary for capping protein function in cells. Nat Commun. 2015 Sep 28;6:8415. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9415. PubMed PMID: 26412145; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4598739.
Mooren OL, Kim J, Li J, Cooper JA. Role of N-WASP in Endothelial Monolayer Formation and Integrity. J Biol Chem. 2015 Jul 24;290(30):18796-805. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.668285. Epub 2015 Jun 12. PubMed PMID: 26070569; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4513134.
Mukherjee S, Kim J, Mooren OL, Shahan ST, Cohan M, Cooper JA. Role of cortactin homolog HS1 in transendothelial migration of natural killer cells. PLoS One. 2015;10(2):e0118153. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118153. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 25723543; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4344232.
Onken MD, Mooren OL, Mukherjee S, Shahan ST, Li J, Cooper JA. Endothelial monolayers and transendothelial migration depend on mechanical properties of the substrate. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2014 Dec;71(12):695-706. doi: 10.1002/cm.21203. Epub 2015 Jan 31. PubMed PMID: 25545622; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4373417.
Onken MD, Li J, Cooper JA. Uveal melanoma cells utilize a novel route for transendothelial migration. PLoS One. 2014;9(12):e115472. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115472. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 25506912; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4266671.
Mooren OL, Li J, Nawas J, Cooper JA. Endothelial cells use dynamic actin to facilitate lymphocyte transendothelial migration and maintain the monolayer barrier. Mol Biol Cell. 2014 Dec 15;25(25):4115-29. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E14-05-0976. Epub 2014 Oct 29. PubMed PMID: 25355948; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4263454.
Edwards M, Zwolak A, Schafer DA, Sept D, Dominguez R, Cooper JA. Capping protein regulators fine-tune actin assembly dynamics. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2014 Oct;15(10):677-89. doi: 10.1038/nrm3869. Epub 2014 Sep 10. Review. PubMed PMID: 25207437; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4271544.
Aggeli D, Kish-Trier E, Lin MC, Haarer B, Cingolani G, Cooper JA, Wilkens S, Amberg DC. Coordination of the filament stabilizing versus destabilizing activities of cofilin through its secondary binding site on actin. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2014 Jun;71(6):361-79. doi: 10.1002/cm.21178. Epub 2014 Jun 23. PubMed PMID: 24943913; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4241054.
Aiken J, Sept D, Costanzo M, Boone C, Cooper JA, Moore JK. Genome-wide analysis reveals novel and discrete functions for tubulin carboxy-terminal tails. Curr Biol. 2014 Jun 16;24(12):1295-1303. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.078. Epub 2014 May 15. PubMed PMID: 24835459; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4070440.
Edwards M, Liang Y, Kim T, Cooper JA. Physiological role of the interaction between CARMIL1 and capping protein. Mol Biol Cell. 2013 Oct;24(19):3047-55. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E13-05-0270. Epub 2013 Jul 31. PubMed PMID: 23904264; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3784379.
Siglin AE, Sun S, Moore JK, Tan S, Poenie M, Lear JD, Polenova T, Cooper JA, Williams JC. Dynein and dynactin leverage their bivalent character to form a high-affinity interaction. PLoS One. 2013;8(4):e59453. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059453. Epub 2013 Apr 5. PubMed PMID: 23577064; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3618186.
Daniels BP, Cruz-Orengo L, Pasieka TJ, Couraud PO, Romero IA, Weksler B, Cooper JA, Doering TL, Klein RS. Immortalized human cerebral microvascular endothelial cells maintain the properties of primary cells in an in vitro model of immune migration across the blood brain barrier. J Neurosci Methods. 2013 Jan 15;212(1):173-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.10.001. Epub 2012 Oct 13. PubMed PMID: 23068604; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3641664.
Zhao J, Bruck S, Cemerski S, Zhang L, Butler B, Dani A, Cooper JA, Shaw AS. CD2AP links cortactin and capping protein at the cell periphery to facilitate formation of lamellipodia. Mol Cell Biol. 2013 Jan;33(1):38-47. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00734-12. Epub 2012 Oct 22. PubMed PMID: 23090967; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3536300.
Skillman KM, Ma CI, Fremont DH, Diraviyam K, Cooper JA, Sept D, Sibley LD. The unusual dynamics of parasite actin result from isodesmic polymerization. Nat Commun. 2013;4:2285. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3285. PubMed PMID: 23921463; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3765016.
Galletta BJ, Carlsson AE, Cooper JA. Molecular analysis of Arp2/3 complex activation in cells. Biophys J. 2012 Nov 21;103(10):2145-56. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.10.009. Epub 2012 Nov 20. PubMed PMID: 23200048; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3512032.
Kim T, Ravilious GE, Sept D, Cooper JA. Mechanism for CARMIL protein inhibition of heterodimeric actin-capping protein. J Biol Chem. 2012 May 4;287(19):15251-62. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.345447. Epub 2012 Mar 12. PubMed PMID: 22411988; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3346114.
Nelson SA, Sanson AM, Park HO, Cooper JA. A novel role for the GTPase-activating protein Bud2 in the spindle position checkpoint. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e36127. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036127. Epub 2012 Apr 25. PubMed PMID: 22558355; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3338500.
Mooren OL, Galletta BJ, Cooper JA. Roles for actin assembly in endocytosis. Annu Rev Biochem. 2012;81:661-86. doi: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060910-094416. Review. PubMed PMID: 22663081.
Stuchell-Brereton MD, Moore JK, Cooper JA. The Role of Dynein in Yeast Nuclear Segregation. In: Hirose K, Amos LA, editors. Handbook of Dynein Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd.; 2012. Chapter 15; p.325-362.
Stuchell-Brereton MD, Siglin A, Li J, Moore JK, Ahmed S, Williams JC, Cooper JA. Functional interaction between dynein light chain and intermediate chain is required for mitotic spindle positioning. Mol Biol Cell. 2011 Aug 1;22(15):2690-701. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E11-01-0075. Epub 2011 Jun 1. PubMed PMID: 21633107; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3145545.
Kim T, Cooper JA, Sept D. The interaction of capping protein with the barbed end of the actin filament. J Mol Biol. 2010 Dec 17;404(5):794-802. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.10.017. Epub 2010 Oct 20. PubMed PMID: 20969875; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2991585.
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