Pseudopodia

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A kinome RNAi screen identified AMPK as promoting poxvirus entry through the control of actin dynamics. 
  • Altered morphology of hippocampal dentate granule cell presynaptic and postsynaptic terminals following conditional deletion of TrkB. 
  • Characterization of basal pseudopod-like processes in ileal and colonic PYY cells. 
  • Constitutive protease-activated receptor-2-mediated migration of MDA MB-231 breast cancer cells requires both beta-arrestin-1 and -2. 
  • Diacylglycerol kinase zeta regulates actin cytoskeleton reorganization through dissociation of Rac1 from RhoGDI. 
  • Dissecting cell adhesion cross-talk with micropatterns. 
  • Effect of pentoxifylline on the flow of polymorphonuclear leukocytes through a model capillary. 
  • Forces for morphogenesis investigated with laser microsurgery and quantitative modeling. 
  • Functions of cytoplasmic fibers in intracellular movements in BHK-21 cells. 
  • Inhibitors of metalloendoproteases block spiculogenesis in sea urchin primary mesenchyme cells. 
  • Lgr4 and Lgr5 drive the formation of long actin-rich cytoneme-like membrane protrusions. 
  • Localized biphasic changes in phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate at sites of phagocytosis. 
  • Loss of Drosophila melanogaster p21-activated kinase 3 suppresses defects in synapse structure and function caused by spastin mutations. 
  • Mechanisms of cellular protrusions branch out. 
  • Medusa cells: the morphology and cytochemistry of common amoeboid variants of eosinophils. 
  • Neurabin/protein phosphatase-1 complex regulates dendritic spine morphogenesis and maturation. 
  • Phagocytic and tumor necrosis factor alpha response of human mast cells following exposure to gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. 
  • Prenylated c17orf37 induces filopodia formation to promote cell migration and metastasis. 
  • Pseudopod-like basal cell processes in intestinal cholecystokinin cells. 
  • Quantification of cell edge velocities and traction forces reveals distinct motility modules during cell spreading. 
  • RYK-mediated filopodial pathfinding facilitates midgut elongation. 
  • Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling regulates lamellipodia localization of cortactin complexes in endothelial cells. 
  • Structural plasticity of dentate granule cell mossy fibers during the development of limbic epilepsy. 
  • The Abl interactor proteins localize to sites of actin polymerization at the tips of lamellipodia and filopodia. 
  • The Arp2/3 Complex Is Essential for Distinct Stages of Spine Synapse Maturation, Including Synapse Unsilencing. 
  • The netrin receptor DCC focuses invadopodia-driven basement membrane transmigration in vivo. 
  • The role of thin filopodia in motility and morphogenesis. 
  • The type III TGFβ receptor regulates filopodia formation via a Cdc42-mediated IRSp53-N-WASP interaction in epithelial cells. 
  • Traversing the basement membrane in vivo: a diversity of strategies. 
  • Unc-51-like kinase 1/2-mediated endocytic processes regulate filopodia extension and branching of sensory axons. 
  • Using Bcr-Abl to examine mechanisms by which abl kinase regulates morphogenesis in Drosophila. 
  • Vangl2 promotes the formation of long cytonemes to enable distant Wnt/β-catenin signaling. 
  • Wnt traffic from endoplasmic reticulum to filopodia. 
  • Wnt/PCP controls spreading of Wnt/β-catenin signals by cytonemes in vertebrates. 
  • alpha-Crystallin localizes to the leading edges of migrating lens epithelial cells.