Rac regulates phosphorylation of the myosin-II heavy chain, actinomyosin disassembly and cell spreading

Rho, Rac, and Cdc42 GTPases regulate the assembly of multimolecular focal complexes associated with actin stress fibers, lamellipodia, and filopodia

Catherine D. Nobes, Alan Hall · Cell · 1995 · 4.4K citations · Full text

Actin Stress Fibers, Protein Function, Signal Transduction +13

Regulation of Myosin Phosphatase by Rho and Rho-Associated Kinase (Rho-Kinase)

Kazushi Kimura, Masaaki Ito, Mutsuki Amano et al. · Science · 1996 · 2.9K citations

Phosphorylation and Activation of Myosin by Rho-associated Kinase (Rho-kinase)

Mutsuki Amano, Masaaki Ito, Kazushi Kimura et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1996 · 2K citations · Full text

Rho-stimulated contractility drives the formation of stress fibers and focal adhesions.

Magdalena Chrzanowska‐Wodnicka, Keith Burridge · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1996 · 1.7K citations

Cell Adhesion, Activated Rhoa, Cytoskeleton +25

A brain serine/threonine protein kinase activated by Cdc42 and Rac1

Edward Manser, Thomas Leung, Harfizah Salihuddin et al. · Nature · 1994 · 1.5K citations

Signal Transduction, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Physiology +8