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GIMM: Lisbon, PT

2024-10-01 to present | Group Leader
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Edgar R. Gomes

iMM Lisboa - Instituto de Medicina Molecular: Lisboa, PT

2014 to 2024-09-30 | Group Leader (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa)
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Edgar R. Gomes

Université Pierre et Marie Curie: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2007 to 2014 | Group Leader (UMR-S 787 )
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Edgar R. Gomes

Columbia University: New York, NY, US

2002 to 2007 | Post-doc (Anatomy and Cell Biology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universidade de Coimbra: Coimbra, Coimbra, PT

1996 to 2002 | PhD (Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia)
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Edgar R. Gomes

Universidade de Coimbra: Coimbra, Coimbra, PT

1992 to 1996 | B.S. (Faculdade Ciencias e Tecnologia)
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Funding (14)

Muscle-on-a-chip to develop gene therapies for neuromuscular disease

2024-05-01 to 2027-06-30 | Grant
European Union (Brussels, BE)
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Defining the role of Arp2/3 complex diversity at multiple scales of biology

2019-01-01 to 2025-12-31 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
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810207

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Identify the mechanisms of endothelial tip cell invasive behavior in order to inhibit physiological and pathological sprouting angiogenesis

2018-10-01 to 2021-09-30 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PTDC/BIA-CEL/32180/2017

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Posicionamento do núcleo das células musculares esqueléticas

2018-08-09 to 2021-08-08 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PTDC/BIA-CEL/31075/2017

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Papel fisiológico de inativação seletiva de núcleos em células multinucleadas.

2018-08-01 to 2022-04-30 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
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PTDC/MED-OUT/32271/2017

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Generating a 3D in vitro innervated and vascularized muscle

2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
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81423

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Promoção do avanço significativo do conhecimento na área de medicina de precisão e sua translação para benefício da sociedade

2016-12-01 to 2020-11-30 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
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SAICTPAC/0021/2015

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Breakthrough Idea Grant, iMM

2016 to present | Grant
IMM (Lisboa, PT)
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Edgar R. Gomes

« Towards outstanding research and training in tumour biology at IMM - H2020-TWINN-2015 »

2016 to 2019 | Grant
H2020-TWINN-2015 (Brussels, BE)
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Edgar R. Gomes

“Muscleguy – proof of concept from fundamental cell biology to assays for myopathies”

2016 to 2018 | Grant
ERC Proof of concept (Brussels, BE)
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Edgar R. Gomes

Positioning the nucleus for cell migration and muscle fiber function

2014-10 to 2019-10 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
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Positioning the nucleus for cell migration and muscle fiber function

2014-07 to 2019-06 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 617676
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Positioning the cell nucleus

2014-01-01 to 2019-12-31 | Grant
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, DE)
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2758

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EMBO Installation Grant

2014 to 2017 | Grant
European Molecular Biology Organization (Heidelberg, DE)
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Works (50 of 53)

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Myonuclear position and blood vessel organization during skeletal muscle postnatal development

Development
2024-10-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Catarina Sequeira; Lou Martha Wackerbarth; Andreia Pena; Mafalda Sá-Pereira; Cláudio A. Franco; Edgar R. Gomes
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Microtubules coordinate mitochondria transport with myofibril morphogenesis during muscle development

2024-09-16 | Preprint
Contributors: Jerome Avellaneda; Duarte Candeias; Ana da Rosa Soares; Edgar R. Gomes; Nuno Miguel Luis; Frank Schnorrer
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Arp2/3 iso-complexes limit t-tubule overgrowth to ensure myofiber formation and synchronous contraction

2024-08-13 | Preprint
Contributors: Ana Raquel Pereira; Ana da Rosa Soares; Tianyang Liu; Josie Liane Ferreira; Graciano Leal; Inês Faleiro; Naoko Kogata; Michael Way; Carolyn A. Moores; Edgar R. Gomes
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Adaptive changes in the DNA damage response during skeletal muscle cell differentiation

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
2023-11-27 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4247897

Contributors: Faleiro, Inês; Afonso, Ana I; Balsinha, André; Lucas, Beatriz; Martin, Robert M.; Gomes, Edgar R.; de Almeida, Sérgio F.; Corresponding author: de Almeida, Sérgio F..
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Generating fast-twitch myotubes in vitro with an optogenetic-based, quantitative contractility assay

Life Science Alliance
2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Katharina Hennig; David Hardman; David MB Barata; Inês IBB Martins; Miguel O Bernabeu; Edgar R Gomes; William Roman
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NLRP3 is essential for neutrophil polarization and chemotaxis in response to leukotriene B4 gradient

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-08-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Stijn Van Bruggen; Pierre-André Jarrot; Eline Thomas; Casey E. Sheehy; Camila M. S. Silva; Alan Y. Hsu; Pierre Cunin; Peter A. Nigrovic; Edgar R. Gomes; Hongbo R. Luo et al.
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Drosophila motor neuron boutons remodel through membrane blebbing coupled with muscle contraction

Nature Communications
2023-06-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Andreia R. Fernandes; João P. Martins; Edgar R. Gomes; César S. Mendes; Rita O. Teodoro
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Shielding of actin by the endoplasmic reticulum impacts nuclear positioning

Nature Communications
2022-05-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Cátia Silva Janota; Andreia Pinto; Anna Pezzarossa; Pedro Machado; Judite Costa; Pedro Campinho; Cláudio A. Franco; Edgar R. Gomes
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TREX1-dependent DNA damage links nuclear rupture to tumor cell invasion

Developmental Cell
2021-11 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-2919283

Contributors: Gomes, Edgar R.; de Almeida, Sérgio F.
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Muscle repair after physiological damage relies on nuclear migration for cellular reconstruction

Science
2021-10-15 | Journal article
Contributors: William Roman; Helena Pinheiro; Mafalda R. Pimentel; Jessica Segalés; Luis M. Oliveira; Esther García-Domínguez; Mari Carmen Gómez-Cabrera; Antonio L. Serrano; Edgar R. Gomes; Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
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Interrogating RNA and protein spatial subcellular distribution in smFISH data with DypFISH

Cell Reports Methods
2021-09 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-2919190

Contributors: Savulescu, Anca F.; Brackin, Robyn; Bouilhol, Emmanuel; Dartigues, Benjamin; Warrell, Jonathan H.; Pimentel, Mafalda R.; Beaume, Nicolas; et al.
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mRNA distribution in skeletal muscle is associated with mRNA size

Journal of Cell Science
2021-07-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Helena Pinheiro; Mafalda Ramos Pimentel; Catarina Sequeira; Luís Manuel Oliveira; Anna Pezzarossa; William Roman; Edgar R. Gomes
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Ctdnep1 and Eps8L2 regulate dorsal actin cables for nuclear positioning during cell migration

Current Biology
2021-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Francisco J. Calero-Cuenca; Daniel S. Osorio; Sofia Carvalho-Marques; Sreerama Chaitanya Sridhara; Luis M. Oliveira; Yue Jiao; Jheimmy Diaz; Cátia S. Janota; Bruno Cadot; Edgar R. Gomes
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B cells adapt their nuclear morphology to organize the immune synapse and help antigen extraction

2021-04-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Romina Ulloa; Oreste Corrales; Fernanda Cabrera; Jorge Jara-Wilde; Juan José Saez; Christopher Rivas; Jonathan Lagos; Steffen Härtel; Clara Quiroga; Edgar R Gomes et al.
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Motor neuron boutons remodel through membrane blebbing

2021-03-07 | Preprint
Contributors: Andreia R. Fernandes; César S. Mendes; Edgar R. Gomes; Rita O. Teodoro
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Nesprins are mechanotransducers that discriminate epithelial–mesenchymal transition programs

Journal of Cell Biology
2020-10-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Théophile Déjardin; Pietro Salvatore Carollo; François Sipieter; Patricia M. Davidson; Cynthia Seiler; Damien Cuvelier; Bruno Cadot; Cecile Sykes; Edgar R. Gomes; Nicolas Borghi
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The role of the cell nucleus in mechanotransduction.

Current opinion in cell biology
2020-04-30 | Journal article
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Methods to Measure Perinuclear Actin Dynamics During Nuclear Movement in Migrating Cells.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
2020-01-01 | Journal article
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Local Arrangement of Fibronectin by Myofibroblasts Governs Peripheral Nuclear Positioning in Muscle Cells

Developmental Cell
2018-07 | Journal article
Contributors: William Roman; João P. Martins; Edgar R. Gomes
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LINC complex-Lis1 interplay controls MT1-MMP matrix digest-on-demand response for confined tumor cell migration

Nature Communications
2018-06-22 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-2539984

Contributors: Infante, Elvira; Castagnino, Alessia; Ferrari, Robin; Monteiro, Pedro; Agüera-Gonza´lez, Sonia; Paul-Gilloteaux, Perrine; Domingues, Mélanie J.; et al.
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Dealing with the nucleus during cell migration

Current Opinion in Cell Biology
2018-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Francisco J Calero-Cuenca; Cátia S Janota; Edgar R Gomes
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An In Vitro System to Measure the Positioning, Stiffness, and Rupture of the Nucleus in Skeletal Muscle.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
2018-01-01 | Journal article
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Myofibril contraction and crosslinking drive nuclear movement to the periphery of skeletal muscle

Nature Cell Biology
2017-10-11 | Journal article
Contributors: William Roman; João P. Martins; Filomena A. Carvalho; Raphael Voituriez; Jasmine V. G. Abella; Nuno C. Santos; Bruno Cadot; Michael Way; Edgar R. Gomes
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Nesprin-1α-Dependent Microtubule Nucleation from the Nuclear Envelope via Akap450 Is Necessary for Nuclear Positioning in Muscle Cells.

Current biology : CB
2017-09 | Journal article
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SnapShot: Nucleo-cytoskeletal Interactions.

2017-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Janota CS; Calero-Cuenca FJ; Costa J; Gomes ER
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Molecular motors and nuclear movements in muscle

Communicative & Integrative Biology
2017-05-04 | Journal article
Contributors: E. R. Gomes; B. Cadot
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In Vitro Differentiation of Mature Myofibers for Live Imaging.

2017-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Pimentel MR; Falcone S; Cadot B; Gomes ER
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Dynein disruption perturbs post-synaptic components and contributes to impaired MuSK clustering at the NMJ: implication in ALS

Sci. Rep.
2016-06-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Valérie Vilmont; Bruno Cadot; Elsa Vezin; Fabien Le Grand; Edgar R. Gomes
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A system to study mechanisms of neuromuscular junction development and maintenance

Development
2016-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Valérie Vilmont; Bruno Cadot; Gilles Ouanounou; Edgar R. Gomes
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Amphiphysin 2 Orchestrates Nucleus Positioning and Shape by Linking the Nuclear Envelope to the Actin and Microtubule Cytoskeleton.

2015-10 | Journal article
Contributors: D'Alessandro M; Hnia K; Gache V; Koch C; Gavriilidis C; Rodriguez D; Nicot AS; Romero NB; Schwab Y; Gomes E et al.
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Moving and positioning the nucleus in skeletal muscle - one step at a time.

2015-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Cadot B; Gache V; Gomes ER
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Connecting the nucleus to the cytoskeleton for nuclear positioning and cell migration

2014 | Book
DOI:

10.1007/978-1-4899-8032-8-23

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2-s2.0-84896996807

Contributors: Osorio, D.S.; Gomes, E.R.
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Fast, multi-dimensional and Simultaneous Kymograph-like Particle Dynamics (SkyPad) analysis

2014 | Journal article
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10.1371/journal.pone.0089073

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2-s2.0-84896772661

Contributors: Cadot, B.; Gache, V.; Gomes, E.R.
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N-WASP is required for Amphiphysin-2/BIN1-dependent nuclear positioning and triad organization in skeletal muscle and is involved in the pathophysiology of centronuclear myopathy.

2014-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Falcone S; Roman W; Hnia K; Gache V; Didier N; Lainé J; Auradé F; Marty I; Nishino I; Charlet-Berguerand N et al.
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The contemporary nucleus: A trip down memory lane

2013 | Journal article
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10.1111/boc.201300009

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2-s2.0-84883556031

Contributors: Osorio, D.S.; Gomes, E.R.
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Nuclear movement during myotube formation is microtubule and dynein dependent and is regulated by Cdc42, Par6 and Par3

EMBO Reports
2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1038/embor.2012.89

Contributors: Cadot, B.; Gache, V.; Vasyutina, E.; Falcone, S.; Birchmeier, C.; Gomes, E.R.
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Spatial distribution of nuclei in muscle fibers: A novel actor of muscular function | Positionnement du noyau dans les muscles: Nouvel acteur de la fonction musculaire

Medecine/Sciences
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Gache, V.; Cadot, B.; Gomes, E.R.
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MAP and kinesin-dependent nuclear positioning is required for skeletal muscle function.

2012-04 | Journal article
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10.1038/nature10914

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22425998

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PMC3321085

Contributors: Metzger T; Gache V; Xu M; Cadot B; Folker ES; Richardson BE; Gomes ER; Baylies MK
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Samp1 is a component of TAN lines and is required for nuclear movement.

2012-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1242/jcs.087049

PMID:

22349700

Contributors: Borrego-Pinto J; Jegou T; Osorio DS; Auradé F; Gorjánácz M; Koch B; Mattaj IW; Gomes ER
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TAN lines: A novel nuclear envelope structure involved in nuclear positioning

Nucleus
2011 | Journal article
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10.4161/nucl.2.3.16243

Contributors: Gant Luxton, G.W.; Gomes, E.R.; Folker, E.S.; Worman, H.J.; Gundersen, G.G.
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Identification and characterization of a non-satellite cell muscle resident progenitor during postnatal development

Nature Cell Biology
2010 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1038/ncb2025

Contributors: Mitchell, K.J.; Pannérec, A.; Cadot, B.; Parlakian, A.; Besson, V.; Gomes, E.R.; Marazzi, G.; Sassoon, D.A.
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Linear arrays of nuclear envelope proteins harness retrograde actin flow for nuclear movement

Science
2010 | Journal article
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10.1126/science.1189072

Contributors: Luxton, G.W.G.; Gomes, E.R.; Folker, E.S.; Vintinner, E.; Gundersen, G.G.
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Dynamics and molecular interactions of linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex proteins

Journal of Cell Science
2009 | Journal article
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10.1242/jcs.057075

Contributors: Östlund, C.; Folker, E.S.; Choi, J.C.; Gomes, E.R.; Gundersen, G.G.; Worman, H.J.
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Real-time centrosome reorientation during fibroblast migration

Methods in Enzymology
2006 | Journal article
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10.1016/S0076-6879(06)06045-9

Contributors: Gomes, E.R.; Gundersen, G.G.
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Nuclear movement regulated by Cdc42, MRCK, myosin, and actin flow establishes MTOC polarization in migrating cells

Cell
2005 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.cell.2005.02.022

Contributors: Gomes, E.R.; Jani, S.; Gundersen, G.G.
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Regulation of microtubules by Rho GTPases in migrating cells

Novartis Foundation Symposium
2005 | Journal article
Contributors: Gundersen, G.G.; Wen, Y.; Eng, C.H.; Schmoranzer, J.; Cabrera-Poch, N.; Morris, E.J.S.; Chen, M.; Gomes, E.R.
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Linking axonal degeneration to microtubule remodeling by Spastin-mediated microtubule severing.

2005-02 | Journal article
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10.1083/jcb.200409058

PMID:

15716377

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PMC2171748

Contributors: Evans KJ; Gomes ER; Reisenweber SM; Gundersen GG; Lauring BP
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Calpains are activated by photodynamic therapy but do not contribute to apoptotic tumor cell death.

2004-12 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.canlet.2004.07.006

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15533594

Contributors: Almeida RD; Gomes ER; Carvalho AP; Duarte CB
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Cortical control of microtubule stability and polarization.

2004-02 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.ceb.2003.11.010

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15037313

Contributors: Gundersen GG; Gomes ER; Wen Y
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A role for cytoplasmic dynein and LIS1 in directed cell movement.

2003-12 | Journal article
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10.1083/jcb.200310097

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14691133

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PMC2173723

Contributors: Dujardin DL; Barnhart LE; Stehman SA; Gomes ER; Gundersen GG; Vallee RB
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