Profilin Interaction with Actin Filament Barbed End Controls Dynamic Instability, Capping, Branching, and Motility

Reconstitution of actin-based motility of Listeria and Shigella using pure proteins

Thomas P. Loisel, Rajaa Boujemaa‐Paterski, Dominique Pantaloni et al. · Nature · 1999 · 965 citations

Virulence Factor, Bacteriology, Pure Proteins +2

Antagonism between Ena/VASP Proteins and Actin Filament Capping Regulates Fibroblast Motility

James E. Bear, Tatyana Svitkina, Matthias Krause et al. · Cell · 2002 · 837 citations · Full text

Signal Transduction, Developmental Biology, Cytoskeleton +6

Scar, a WASp-related protein, activates nucleation of actin filaments by the Arp2/3 complex

Laura M. Machesky, R. Dyche Mullins, Henry N. Higgs et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 770 citations · Full text

Direct observation of dendritic actin filament networks nucleated by Arp2/3 complex and WASP/Scar proteins

Laurent Blanchoin, Kurt J. Amann, Henry N. Higgs et al. · Nature · 2000 · 581 citations

Protein Function, Natural Sciences, Wasp/scar Proteins +11

Formin Is a Processive Motor that Requires Profilin to Accelerate Actin Assembly and Associated ATP Hydrolysis

Stéphane Romero, Christophe Le Clainche, Dominique Didry et al. · Cell · 2004 · 553 citations · Full text

Mechanobiology, Accelerate Actin Assembly, Cell Physiology +12