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2009

Fischer, R.F., M. Gardel, X. Bao, R.S. Adelstein, and C.M. Waterman.  (2009) Myosin II regulates cortical tension to modulate 3D endothelial cell branching.  Curr. Biol. 19:260-265

2008

Gardel, M.L., B. Sabass, L. Ji, G. Danuser, U. Schwarz, and C.M. Waterman. (2008) Traction Stress in focal adhesions correlates biphasically with actin retrograde flow speed. J. Cell Biol. 183:999-1005.

Kim, Y., J.E. Heuser, C.M. Waterman and D.W. Cleveland. (2008) CENP-E combines a slow, processive motor and a flexible coiled-coil to produce an essential motile kinetochore tether. J. Cell Biol. 181:411-419.

Lim, Y, M. Gardel, S.-T. Lim, J.A. Bernard-Trifilo, J, Zhai, H. Lin, R. Canete-Soler, W. W. Schlaepfer, D. Ilic, C.M. Waterman-Storer, and D.D. Schlaepfer. (2008) p190RhoGEF promotes fibronectin-stimulated RhoA activity and contributes to aberrant FAK-null fibroblast phenotypes. J. Cell Biol. 180: 187-203.

Sabass, B. M.L.Gardel, C.M. Waterman, and U. Schwarz. (2008) High resolution traction force microscopy based on experimental and computational advances. Biophys J. 94:207-220.

2007

Delorme, V, M. Macachek, T. Wittmann, C.M. Waterman-Storer, G. Danuser and G.M. Bokoch. (2007) Pak1-regulated cofilin activity organizes lamellipodium and lamella actin networks during cell protrusion. Dev. Cell 13: 646-662.

Gupton, S.L, K. Eisenmann, A.S. Alberts, and C.M. Waterman-Storer. (2007) Dia2 regulates actin and focal adhesion dynamics in the lamella for efficient epithelial cell migration. J. Cell Sci. 120: 3475-3487.

Yarar, D., C.M. Waterman-Storer and S.L. Schmid. (2007) SNX9 couples actin assembly to phosphoinositide signals and is required for membrane remodeling during endocytosis. Developmental Cell. 13:43-56.

Grande-Garcia, A., A. Echarri, J. de Rooij, N.B. Alderson, C.M. Waterman-Storer, J.M. Valdivielso and M.A. Del Pozo. (2007) Caveolin-1 regulates polarization and directional migration through Src kinase and Rho GTPases. J. Cell Biol. 177:683-694.

Kroboth, K., I. Newton, K. Kita, J. Zumbrunn, C.M. Waterman-Storer, and I.S. Nathke. (2007) Lack of adenomatous polyposis coli proteins correlates with a decrease in cell migration and overall changes in microtubule stability. Mol. Biol. Cell. 18:910-918.

Hu, K.*, L. Ji.*, K. Applegate, G. Danuser and C.M. Waterman-Storer. (2007) Transmission of actin motion within focal adhesions. Science 315:111-115.

2006

Prigozhina N.P. and C.M. Waterman-Storer. (2006) Decreased polarity and increased random motility in PtK1 epithelial cells correlates with inhibition of endosomal recycling. J. Cell Sci. 119:3571-3582.

Gupton, S.L and C.M. Waterman-Storer. (2006) Spatiotemporal feedback between actomyosin and substrate adhesion dynamics optimizes rapid cell migration. Cell 125:1361-1374.

Kita, K, T. Wittmann, I.S. Nathke and C.M. Waterman-Storer. (2006) APC on microtubule plus ends in cell extensions can promote microtubule net growth with or without EB1. Mol. Biol. Cell.17:2331-2345.

Danuser, G. and C.M. Waterman-Storer (2006) Quantitative Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy of Cytoskeleton Dynamics Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 35:361-387.

2005

deRooij, J., A. Kerstens, G. Danuser, M. A. Schwartz and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2005) Integrin-dependent actomyosin contraction regulates epithelial cell scattering. J. Cell Biol. 171:153-164.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Wittmann, T. and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2005) Spatial regulation of CLASP affinity for microtubules by Rac1 and GSK3β in migrating epithelial cells. J. Cell Biol. 169:929-939.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Torreano, P. A., C. M. Waterman-Storer, and C. S. Cohan (2005) The effects of collapsing factors on F-actin content and microtubule distribution of Helisoma growth cones. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 60:166-179.

Gupton, S. L., K. L. Anderson, T. P. Kole, R. S. Fischer, A. Ponti, S. E. Hitchcock-DeGregori, G. Danuser, V. M. Fowler, D. Wirtz, D. Hanein, and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2005) Cell migration without a lamellipodium: Translation of actin dynamics into cell movement mediated by tropomyosin. J. Cell Biol. 168:619-631.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Yarar, D., C. M. Waterman-Storer and S. L. Schmid (2005) A dynamic actin cytoskeleton functions at multiple stages of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Mol. Biol Cell 16:964-975.

2004

Adams, M. C., A. Matov, D. Yarar, S. L. Gupton, G. Danuser and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2004) Signal analysis of Total Internal Reflection Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy (TIR-FSM) and widefield epi-fluorescence FSM of the actin cytoskeleton and focal adhesions in living cells. J. Microscopy 216:138-152.

Ponti A., M. Machacek, S. L. Gupton, C. M. Waterman-Storer, and G. Danuser (2004) Two distinct actin networks drive the protrusion of migrating cells. Science 305:1782-1786.

Vallotton P., C. M. Waterman-Storer, and G. Danuser (2004) Simultaneous mapping of filamentous actin flow and turnover in migrating cells by quantitative fluorescent speckle microscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101:9660-9665..

Schlunck, G., H. Damke, W. B. Kiosses, N. Rusk, M. H. Symons, C. M. Waterman-Storer, S. L. Schmid and M. A. Schwartz (2004) Modulation of Rac function by dynamin. Mol. Biol. Cell. 15:256-267.

Prigozhina, N. and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2004) Protein kinase D-mediated anterograde membrane trafficking is required for fibroblast motility. Curr. Biol. 14:88-98.

Wittmann, T., G. M. Bokoch and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2004) Regulation of microtubule destabilizing activity of Op18/stathmin downstream of Rac1. J. Biol. Chem. 279:6196-6203.

2003

Vallotton, P., A. Ponti, C. M. Waterman-Storer, E. D. Salmon and G. Danuser (2003) Recovery, visualization, and analysis of actin and tubulin polymer flow in live cells: A fluorescent speckle microscopy study. Biophys. J. 85:1289-1306.
© The Biophysical Society.

Danuser, G. and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2003) Quantitative fluorescent speckle microscopy: where it came from and where it is going. J. Microscopy 211:191-207.

Rodriguez, O., A. Schaefer, C. M. Mandato, P. M. Forscher, W. M. Bement and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2003) Dynamic microtubule-actin interactions: Conserved mechanisms underlying directed cell movement and polarized morphogenesis. Nat. Cell Biol. 5:599-609.

Wittmann, T., G. M. Bokoch and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2003) Regulation of leading edge microtubule and actin dynamics downstream of Rac1. J. Cell Biol. 161:845-851.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Ponti, A., P. Vallotton, W. C. Salmon, C. M. Waterman-Storer and G. Danuser (2003) Computational analysis of f-actin turnover in cortical actin meshworks using fluorescent speckle microscopy. Biophys. J. 84:3336-3352.
© The Biophysical Society.

Adams, M. C., W. C. Salmon, S. L. Gupton, C. S. Cohan, T. Wittmann, N. Prigozhina and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2003) A high-speed multi-spectral spinning disc confocal microscope system for fluorescent speckle microscopy of living cells. Methods 29:29-41.

2002

Gupton, S. L., W. C. Salmon and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2002) Converging populations of f-actin promote breakage of associated microtubules to spatially regulate microtubule turnover in migrating cells. Curr. Biol. 12:1891-1899.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. and G. Danuser (2002) New directions for fluorescent speckle microscopy. Curr. Biol. 12:R633-R640.

Salmon, W. C., M. C. Adams and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2002) Dual-wavelength fluorescent speckle microscopy reveals coupling of microtubule and actin movements in migrating cells. J. Cell Biol. 158:31-37.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Zhou, F. Q., C. M. Waterman-Storer and C. S. Cohan (2002) Focal loss of actin bundles causes microtubule redistribution and growth cone turning. J. Cell Biol.157:839-849.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. (2002) Fluorescent speckle microscopy (FSM) of microtubules and actin in living cells. In: Current Protocols in Cell Biology, J.S. Bonifacino, M. Dasso, J.B. Harford, J. Lippincott-Schwartz, and K.M. Yamada, Eds. John Wiley, NY. Unit 4.10.

2001

Wittmann, T. and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2001) Cell motility: Can Rho GTPases and microtubules point the way? J. Cell Sci. 114:3795-3803.
© The Company of Biologists Ltd.

Bulinski, J. C., D. J. Odde, B. J. Howell, E. D. Salmon and C. M. Waterman-Storer (2001) Rapid dynamics of the microtubule binding of ensconsin in vivo. J. Cell Sci. 114:3885-3897.
© The Company of Biologists Ltd.

Nachury, M. V., T. J. Maresca, W. C. Salmon, C. M. Waterman-Storer, R. Heald and K. Weiss (2001) Importin beta is a mitotic target of the small GTPase Ran in spindle assembly. Cell 104:95-106.

2000

Waterman-Storer, C. M., D. Y. Duey, K. L. Weber, J. Keech, R. E. Cheney, E. D. Salmon and W. M. Bement (2000) Microtubules remodel actomyosin networks in Xenopus egg extracts via two mechanisms of F-actin transport. J. Cell Biol. 150:361-376.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., W. C. Salmon and E. D. Salmon (2000) Feedback interactions between cell-cell adherens junctions and cytoskeletal dynamics in newt lung epithelial cells. Mol. Biol. Cell. 11:2471-2483.

1991 - 1999

Faire, K., C. M. Waterman-Storer, D. Gruber, D. Masson, E. D. Salmon and J. C. Bulinski (1999) Dynamic behavior of GFP-labeled E-MAP-115 (ensconsin) in cultured cells. J. Cell Sci. 112:4243-4255.
© The Company of Biologists Ltd.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. and E. D. Salmon (1999) Fluorescent speckle microscopy of microtubules: How low can you go? FASEB J. 13:S225-S230.

Waterman-Storer, C. M, R. A. Worthylake, B. P. Liu, K. Burridge and E. D. Salmon (1999) Microtubule growth activates Rac1 to promote lamellipodial protrusion in fibroblasts. Nature Cell Biol. 1:45-50.

Waterman-Storer, C. M and E. D. Salmon (1999) Positive feedback interactions between microtubule and actin dynamics during cell motility. Curr. Op. Cell Biol. 11:61-67.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., A. Desai and E. D. Salmon (1999) Fluorescent speckle microscopy of spindle microtubule assembly and motility in living cells. Meth. Cell. Biol. 61:155-173 .

Waterman-Storer, C. M. (1998) Microtubules and Microscopes: How discoveries about microtubule dynamics in living cells have been led by the development of imaging technologies. Mol. Biol. Cell. 9:3263-3271.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., Desai, A., J. C. Bulinski and E. D. Salmon (1998) Fluorescent speckle microscopy, a method to visualize the dynamics of protein assemblies in living cells. Curr. Biol. 8:1227-1230.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. (1998) Microtubule/organelle motility assays. In: Current Protocols in Cell Biology, J.S. Bonifacino, M. Dasso, J.B. Harford, J. Lippincott-Schwartz, and K.M. Yamada, eds. John Wiley, NY. Unit 13.1.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. and E. D. Salmon (1998) How microtubules get fluorescent speckles. Biophys. J. 75:2059-2069.
© The Biophysical Society.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., and E. D. Salmon (1998) Endoplasmic reticulum membrane tubules are distributed in living cells by three distinct microtubule dependent mechanisms. Curr. Biol. 8:798-806.

Salmon, E. D., S. L. Shaw, J. Waters, C. M. Waterman-Storer, P. S. Maddox, E.Yeh and K. Bloom (1998) A high resolution multi-mode digital microscope system. Methods Cell Biol. 56:185-214.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. and E. D. Salmon (1997) Multimode digital imaging system for fluorescence studies of microtubule and endoplasmic reticulum dynamics in living cells. In: Applications of Optical Engineering to the Study of Cellular Pathology. E. Kohen, and J.G. Hirschberg, eds. Research Signpost, Trivandrum, India. Pp.125-138.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., S. L. Shaw, and E. D. Salmon (1997) Production and presentation of digital movies. Trends Cell Biol. 7:503-506.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. and E. D. Salmon (1997) Actomyosin-based retrograde flow of microtubules in the lamella of migrating epithelial cells influences microtubule dynamic instability and turnover and is associated with microtubule breakage and treadmilling. J. Cell Biol. 139:417-434.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. and E. D. Salmon (1997) Microtubule dynamics: Treadmilling comes around again. Curr. Biol. 7:R369-R372.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., S. Karki, S. A. Kuznetsov, J. Tabb, D. G. Weiss,G. M. Langford and E. L. F. Holzbaur (1997) The interaction between cytoplasmic dynein and dynactin is required for fast axonal transport. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 94:12180-12185.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. and E. L. F. Holzbaur (1996) The product of the Drosophila gene, Glued, is the functional homologue of the p150Glued component of the vertebrate dynactin complex. J. Biol. Chem. 271:1153-1159.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. J. Gregory, S. F. Parsons and E. D. Salmon (1995) Membrane-Microtubule tip attachment complexes (TACs) allow the assembly dynamics of plus ends to push and pull membranes into tubulovesicular networks in interphase Xenopus egg extracts. J. Cell. Biol. 130:1161-1169.
This research was originally published in The Journal of Cell Biology. © The Rockefeller University Press.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., S. Karki and E. L. F. Holzbaur (1995) The p150Glued component of the dynactin complex binds to both microtubules and the novel actin, centractin. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA, 92:1634-1638.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., J. W. Sanger and J. M. Sanger (1994) Membranes and microtubules: A confocal microscopic study. Video supplement #4 to Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 27:368-371.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., J. W. Sanger and J. M. Sanger (1993) Dynamics of organelles in the mitotic spindles of living cells: membrane and microtubule interactions. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 26:19-39.

Waterman-Storer, C. M., J. W. Sanger and J. M. Sanger (1992) Dynamics of membranous organelles in the mitotic apparatus of two cell types, a live cell laser scanning confocal study. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America. Bailey, G.W. Bentley, J. and Small, J.A. Eds. San Francisco Press, Inc, San Francisco CA. p 696.

Waterman-Storer, C. M. (1991) The Cytoskeleton of Skeletal Muscle: Is it affected by exercise? A brief review. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 23:1240-1249.