Yin–Wei Kuo

Spastin is a dual-function enzyme that severs microtubules and promotes their regrowth to increase the number and mass of microtubules

Yin–Wei Kuo, Olivier Trottier, Mohammed Mahamdeh et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 112 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology +17

Structures of outer-arm dynein array on microtubule doublet reveal a motor coordination mechanism

Qinhui Rao, Long Han, Yue Wang et al. · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 2021 · 90 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology +17

The force required to remove tubulin from the microtubule lattice by pulling on its α-tubulin C-terminal tail

Yin–Wei Kuo, Mohammed Mahamdeh, Yazgan Tuna et al. · Nature Communications · 2022 · 40 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biophysics, Molecular Biology +17

Predicted Effects of Severing Enzymes on the Length Distribution and Total Mass of Microtubules

Yin–Wei Kuo, Olivier Trottier, Jonathon Howard · Biophysical Journal · 2019 · 22 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biophysics, Cell Biology +13

Counting fluorescently labeled proteins in tissues in the spinning–disk microscope using single–molecule calibrations

Maijia Liao, Yin–Wei Kuo, Jonathon Howard · Molecular Biology of the Cell · 2022 · 10 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Cell Biology +17