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Actin-Delimited Adhesion-Independent Clustering of E-Cadherin Forms the Nanoscale Building Blocks of Adherens Junctions

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(2014) Rajesh D Gunage et al.   eLife

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Interplay between the Dividing Cell and Its Neighbors Regulates Adherens Junction Formation during Cytokinesis in Epithelial Tissue

(2013) Sophie Herszterg et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Extracellular annexins and dynamin are important for sequential steps in myoblast fusion

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Myomaker is a membrane activator of myoblast fusion and muscle formation

(2013) Douglas P. Millay et al.   NATURE

Genetic basis of cell–cell fusion mechanisms

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Bidirectional Notch activation represses fusion competence in swarming adult Drosophila myoblasts

(2012) B. Gildor et al.   DEVELOPMENT

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The actin regulator N-WASp is required for muscle-cell fusion in mice

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3D nuclear architecture reveals coupled cell cycle dynamics of chromatin and nuclear pores in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

(2011) Allon Weiner et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The actin nucleator WASp is required for myoblast fusion during adult Drosophila myogenesis

(2011) P. Mukherjee et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Asymmetric Mbc, active Rac1 and F-actin foci in the fusion-competent myoblasts during myoblast fusion in Drosophila

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An invasive podosome-like structure promotes fusion pore formation during myoblast fusion

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Systematic genetic analysis of muscle morphogenesis and function in Drosophila

(2010) Frank Schnorrer et al.   NATURE

The immunoglobulin superfamily member Hbs functions redundantly with Sns in interactions between founder and fusion-competent myoblasts

(2009) C. Shelton et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Myoblast fusion: When it takes more to make one

(2009) Kate Rochlin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

FuRMAS: triggering myoblast fusion inDrosophila

(2009) Susanne-Filiz Önel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The SCAR and WASp nucleation-promoting factors act sequentially to mediate Drosophila myoblast fusion

(2009) Boaz Gildor et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Nap1-mediated actin remodeling is essential for mammalian myoblast fusion

(2009) S. J. Nowak et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

WASP and SCAR/WAVE proteins: the drivers of actin assembly

(2009) A. Y. Pollitt et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Ion-Abrasion Scanning Electron Microscopy Reveals Surface-Connected Tubular Conduits in HIV-Infected Macrophages

(2009) Adam E. Bennett et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Viral and Developmental Cell Fusion Mechanisms: Conservation and Divergence

(2008) Amir Sapir et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

WASP and SCAR have distinct roles in activating the Arp2/3 complex during myoblast fusion

(2008) S. Berger et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Fusion-pore expansion during syncytium formation is restricted by an actin network

(2008) A. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Mechanisms of membrane fusion: disparate players and common principles

(2008) Sascha Martens et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

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(2008) Leonid V Chernomordik et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The atypical Rac activator Dock180 (Dock1) regulates myoblast fusion in vivo

(2008) M. Laurin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Myoblast Fusion in Fly and Vertebrates: New Genes, New Processes and New Perspectives

(2008) Brian E. Richardson et al.   TRAFFIC

STEM tomography for thick biological specimens

(2008) Kazuhiro Aoyama et al.   ULTRAMICROSCOPY

Drosophila ELMO/CED-12 interacts with Myoblast city to direct myoblast fusion and ommatidial organization

(2007) Erika R. Geisbrecht et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The combination of chemical fixation procedures with high pressure freezing and freeze substitution preserves highly labile tissue ultrastructure for electron tomography applications

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