The state of the septin cytoskeleton from assembly to function

BL Woods, AS Gladfelter - Current opinion in cell biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Septins are conserved guanine nucleotide-binding proteins that polymerize into filaments at
the cell cortex or in association with other cytoskeletal proteins, such as actin or …

Cytoskeletal dynamics: a view from the membrane

M Bezanilla, AS Gladfelter, DR Kovar, WL Lee - Journal of Cell Biology, 2015 - rupress.org
Many aspects of cytoskeletal assembly and dynamics can be recapitulated in vitro; yet, how
the cytoskeleton integrates signals in vivo across cellular membranes is far less understood …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane reshaping by micrometric curvature sensitive septin filaments

A Beber, C Taveneau, M Nania, FC Tsai… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Septins are cytoskeletal filaments that assemble at the inner face of the plasma membrane.
They are localized at constriction sites and impact membrane remodeling. We report in vitro …

[HTML][HTML] Septin form and function at the cell cortex

AA Bridges, AS Gladfelter - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 - ASBMB
Septins are GTP-binding proteins that form filaments and higher-order structures on the cell
cortex of eukaryotic cells and associate with actin and microtubule cytoskeletal networks …

[HTML][HTML] The hierarchical assembly of septins revealed by high-speed AFM

F Jiao, KS Cannon, YC Lin, AS Gladfelter… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Septins are GTP-binding proteins involved in diverse cellular processes including division
and membrane remodeling. Septins form linear, palindromic heteromeric complexes that …

Molecular mechanism of cytokinesis

TD Pollard, B O'Shaughnessy - Annual review of biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Division of amoebas, fungi, and animal cells into two daughter cells at the end of the cell
cycle depends on a common set of ancient proteins, principally actin filaments and myosin-II …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane binding controls ordered self-assembly of animal septins

A Szuba, F Bano, G Castro-Linares, F Iv, M Mavrakis… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Septins are conserved cytoskeletal proteins that regulate cell cortex mechanics. The
mechanisms of their interactions with the plasma membrane remain poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Super-resolution dipole orientation mapping via polarization demodulation

K Zhanghao, L Chen, XS Yang, MY Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2016 - nature.com
Fluorescence polarization microscopy (FPM) aims to detect the dipole orientation of
fluorophores and to resolve structural information for labeled organelles via wide-field or …

Curvature sensing as an emergent property of multiscale assembly of septins

W Shi, KS Cannon, BN Curtis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The ability of cells to sense and communicate their shape is central to many of their
functions. Much is known about how cells generate complex shapes, yet how they sense …

Expansion and concatenation of nonmuscle myosin IIA filaments drive cellular contractile system formation during interphase and mitosis

AM Fenix, N Taneja, CA Buttler, J Lewis… - Molecular biology of …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Cell movement and cytokinesis are facilitated by contractile forces generated by the
molecular motor, nonmuscle myosin II (NMII). NMII molecules form a filament (NMII-F) …