Search Results - "Guichard, Berengere"
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Profilin Interaction with Actin Filament Barbed End Controls Dynamic Instability, Capping, Branching, and Motility
Published in Developmental cell (25-01-2016)“…Cell motility and actin homeostasis depend on the control of polarized growth of actin filaments. Profilin, an abundant regulator of actin dynamics, supports…”
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Actin filament oxidation by MICAL1 suppresses protections from cofilin-induced disassembly
Published in EMBO reports (03-02-2021)“…Proteins of the ADF/cofilin family play a central role in the disassembly of actin filaments, and their activity must be tightly regulated in cells. Recently,…”
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Geometrical Constraints Greatly Hinder Formin mDia1 Activity
Published in Nano letters (08-01-2020)“…Formins are one of the central players in the assembly of most actin networks in cells. The sensitivity of these processive molecular machines to mechanical…”
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Structural insight into how the human helicase subunit MCM2 may act as a histone chaperone together with ASF1 at the replication fork
Published in Nucleic acids research (18-02-2015)“…MCM2 is a subunit of the replicative helicase machinery shown to interact with histones H3 and H4 during the replication process through its N-terminal domain…”
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Spire and Formin 2 synergize and antagonize in regulating actin assembly in meiosis by a ping-pong mechanism
Published in PLoS biology (01-02-2014)“…In mammalian oocytes, three actin binding proteins, Formin 2 (Fmn2), Spire, and profilin, synergistically organize a dynamic cytoplasmic actin meshwork that…”
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Interactions of Isolated C-terminal Fragments of Neural Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (N-WASP) with Actin and Arp2/3 Complex
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (05-10-2012)“…Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome proteins (WASP) are a family of proteins that all catalyze actin filament branching with the Arp2/3 complex in a variety of…”
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Direct observation of the conformational states of formin mDia1 at actin filament barbed ends and along the filament
Published in Molecular biology of the cell (01-01-2023)“…The fine regulation of actin polymerization is essential to control cell motility and architecture and to perform essential cellular functions. Formins are key…”
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Using Microfluidics Single Filament Assay to Study Formin Control of Actin Assembly
Published in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (2018)“…Formin is a highly processive motor that offers very unique features to control the elongation of actin filaments. When bound to the filament barbed-end, it…”
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Intermittent depolymerization of actin filaments is caused by photo-induced dimerization of actin protomers
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-07-2012)“…Actin, one of the most abundant proteins within eukaryotic cells, assembles into long filaments that form intricate cytoskeletal networks and are continuously…”
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Dimeric WH2 domains in Vibrio VopF promote actin filament barbed-end uncapping and assisted elongation
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-09-2013)“…Proteins containing repeats of the WASP homology 2 (WH2) actin-binding module are multifunctional regulators of actin nucleation and assembly. Now biochemical…”
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Modulation of formin processivity by profilin and mechanical tension
Published in eLife (25-05-2018)“…Formins are major regulators of actin networks. They enhance actin filament dynamics by remaining processively bound to filament barbed ends. How biochemical…”
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Regeneration of actin filament branches from the same Arp2/3 complex
Published in Science advances (26-01-2024)“…Branched actin filaments are found in many key cellular structures. Branches are nucleated by the Arp2/3 complex activated by nucleation-promoting factor (NPF)…”
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Spire and Formin 2 Synergize and Antagonize in Regulating Actin Assembly in Meiosis by a Ping-Pong Mechanism: e1001795
Published in PLoS biology (01-02-2014)“…In mammalian oocytes, three actin binding proteins, Formin 2 (Fmn2), Spire, and profilin, synergistically organize a dynamic cytoplasmic actin meshwork that…”
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ADF/Cofilin Accelerates Actin Dynamics by Severing Filaments and Promoting Their Depolymerization at Both Ends
Published in Current biology (10-07-2017)“…Actin-depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilins contribute to cytoskeletal dynamics by promoting rapid actin filament disassembly. In the classical view,…”
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occludin and ZO-1 complex, defined by small angle X-ray scattering and NMR, has implications for modulating tight junction permeability
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-07-2012)“…Tight junctions (TJs) are dynamic cellular structures that are critical for compartmentalizing environments within tissues and regulating transport of small…”
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