Arp2/3-mediated actin-based motility: a tail of pathogen abuse

MD Welch, M Way - Cell host & microbe, 2013 - cell.com
Intracellular pathogens have developed elaborate mechanisms to exploit the different
cellular systems of their unwilling hosts to facilitate their entry, replication, and survival. In …

Controlling entropy to tune the functions of intrinsically disordered regions

T Flock, RJ Weatheritt, NS Latysheva… - Current opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•High entropy of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) forms the basis for
functional plasticity.•Inherent features of IDRs are optimised to overcome the entropic cost of …

Anticancer kinase inhibitors impair intracellular viral trafficking and exert broad-spectrum antiviral effects

E Bekerman, G Neveu, A Shulla… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Global health is threatened by emerging viral infections, which largely lack effective
vaccines or therapies. Targeting host pathways that are exploited by multiple viruses could …

Isoform diversity in the Arp2/3 complex determines actin filament dynamics

JVG Abella, C Galloni, J Pernier, DJ Barry, S Kjær… - Nature cell …, 2016 - nature.com
The Arp2/3 complex consists of seven evolutionarily conserved subunits (Arp2, Arp3 and
ARPC1–5) and plays an essential role in generating branched actin filament networks …

Mechanical force induces mitochondrial fission

SCJ Helle, Q Feng, MJ Aebersold, L Hirt, RR Grüter… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Eukaryotic cells are densely packed with macromolecular complexes and intertwining
organelles, continually transported and reshaped. Intriguingly, organelles avoid clashing …

Open source software for quantification of cell migration, protrusions, and fluorescence intensities

DJ Barry, CH Durkin, JV Abella, M Way - Journal of Cell Biology, 2015 - rupress.org
Cell migration is frequently accompanied by changes in cell morphology (morphodynamics)
on a range of spatial and temporal scales. Despite recent advances in imaging techniques …

Viral cell-to-cell spread: Conventional and non-conventional ways

N Cifuentes-Munoz, F El Najjar, RE Dutch - Advances in virus research, 2020 - Elsevier
A critical step in the life cycle of a virus is spread to a new target cell, which generally
involves the release of new viral particles from the infected cell which can then initiate …

[HTML][HTML] WIP provides an essential link between Nck and N-WASP during Arp2/3-dependent actin polymerization

SK Donnelly, I Weisswange, M Zettl, M Way - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
Nck links phosphotyrosine-based signaling to Arp2/3-dependent actin polymerization during
many different cellular processes as well as actin-based motility of enteropathogenic …

The relative binding position of Nck and Grb2 adaptors impacts actin-based motility of Vaccinia virus

A Basant, M Way - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Phosphotyrosine (pTyr) motifs in unstructured polypeptides orchestrate important cellular
processes by engaging SH2-containing adaptors to assemble complex signalling networks …

Latent membrane protein 1 and macrophage‐derived TNFα synergistically activate and mobilize invadopodia to drive invasion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

WC Tang, SW Tsao, GE Jones, X Liu… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Invadopodia are actin‐rich membrane protrusions that digest the matrix barrier during
cancer metastasis. Since the discovery of invadopodia, they have been visualized as …