S K Akiyama

Transforming growth factor beta stimulates the expression of fibronectin and of both subunits of the human fibronectin receptor by cultured human lung fibroblasts.

Cynthia J. Roberts, Thomas M. Birkenmeier, Jay McQuillan et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1988 · 334 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +16

A potential marker protease of invasiveness, seprase, is localized on invadopodia of human malignant melanoma cells.

Wayne L. Monsky, Ching‐Yuang Lin, Atsuko Aoyama et al. · PubMed · 1994 · 252 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +17

Characterization of a 140-kD avian cell surface antigen as a fibronectin-binding molecule.

S K Akiyama, Soichiro Yamada, Kenneth M. Yamada · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1986 · 180 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +14

Synthetic peptides competitively inhibit both direct binding to fibroblasts and functional biological assays for the purified cell-binding domain of fibronectin.

S K Akiyama, Kenneth M. Yamada · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1985 · 146 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +14

Neurite extension of chicken peripheral nervous system neurons on fibronectin: relative importance of specific adhesion sites in the central cell-binding domain and the alternatively spliced type III connecting segment.

Martin J. Humphries, S K Akiyama, Akira Komoriya et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1988 · 140 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16