Selected Publications

2009 to Present

Rape, A.D., W.H. Guo, and Y.L. Wang. (2011 Mar) The regulation of traction force in relation to cell shape and focal adhesions. Biomaterials 32(8):2043-51. Epub 2010 Dec 15.

Ruder, W.C. and P.R. LeDuc. (2011) Bioinspirations: Cell-Inspired Small-Scale Systems for Enabling Studies in Experimental Biomechanics. Integrative and Comparative Biology (Former journal name: American Zoologist) 51(1):128-132.

Weinger J., M. Qiu, G. Yang, and T. Kapoor. (2011) A nonmotor microtubule binding site in kinesin-5 is required for filament crosslinking and sliding, Current Biology, 21:1-7.

Zhou, M-N, E. Kunttas-Tatli, S. Zimmerman, F. Zhouzheng, and B.M. McCartney. (2011) Cortical localization of APC2 plays a role in actin organization but not in Wnt signaling in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Science, 124(Pt 9): p. 1589-600.

Goodman B., W. Channels, M. Qiu, P. Iglesias, G Yang, and Y. Zheng. (2010) Lamin B counteracts the kinesin Eg5 to restrain spindle pole separation during spindle assembly, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285:35238-35244.

Holt, B.D., P.A. Short, A.D. Rape, Y.L. Wang, M.F. Islam, and K.N. Dahl. (2010 Aug 24) Carbon nanotubes reorganize actin structures in cells and ex vivo. ACS Nano 4(8):4872-8.

Lin, Y.W., R.M. Bellin, C.M. Cheng, R. Steward, Y.R. Cheng, P.R. LeDuc, and C.C. Chen. (2010) Probing Localized Neural Mechanotransduction through Surface-Modified Elastomeric Matrices and Electrophysiology. Nature Protocols 714, 5(4): 714-724.

Zimmerman, S.G., L. M. Thorpe, V. R. Medrano, C. A. Mallozzi, and B. M. McCartney. (2010) Apical constriction and invagination downstream of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway requires Rho1 and Myosin II. Developmental Biology 340:54-66.

Domian, I.J., M. Chiravuri, P. van der Meer, A.W. Feinberg, X. Shi, Y. Shao, S.M. Wu, K.K. Parker, and K.R. Chien. (2009 Oct 16) Generation of functional ventricular heart muscle from mouse ventricular progenitor cells. Science 326(5951):426-9.

Frey, M.T. and Y.L. Wang. (2009) A photo-modulatable material for probing cellular responses to substrate rigidity. Soft Matter 5:1918-1924.

Webb, R.L., O. Rozov, S. Watkins, and B.M. McCartney. (2009) Using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy to visualize cortical microtubules in the Drosophila syncytial embryo. Developmental Dynamics 238(10): 2622-2632.

Bellin, R.M., J.D. Kubicek, M.J. Frigault, A.J. Kamien, R. Steward, H.M. Barnes, M.B. DiGiacomo, L.J. Duncan, C.K. Edgerly, E.M. Morse, C.Y. Park, J.J. Fredberg, C.M. Cheng, and P.R. LeDuc. (2009) Defining the Role of Syndecan-4 in Mechanotransduction using Surface-Modification Approaches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(52): 22102-22107.

Webb, R.L., M-N Zhou, and B.M. McCartney. (2009) An APC2-Diaphanous complex organizes actin  in the Drosophila syncytial embryo. Development 136(8):1283-1293.