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2008

Osawa, M., Anderson, D. E. and Erickson, H. P. Reconstitution of contractile FtsZ rings in liposomes. Science (SciencExpress 1154520) Abstract. PDF (for supplemental methods and movies, go to ScienExpress web site).

Chen, Y., and H.P. Erickson. 2008. In Vitro Assembly Studies of FtsZ/Tubulin-like Proteins (TubZ) from Bacillus Plasmids: EVIDENCE FOR A CAPPING MECHANISM. J Biol Chem. 283:8102-9. PDF

2007

Chen, Y., D.E. Anderson, M. Rajagopalan, and H.P. Erickson. 2007. Assembly Dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ. J Biol Chem. 282:27736-43. PDF

Erickson H. P. Evolution of the cytoskeleton. Bioessays 2007;29(7):668-677. PDF

Ohashi T, Galiacy SD, Briscoe G, Erickson HP. An experimental study of GFP-based FRET, with application to intrinsically unstructured proteins. Protein Sci 2007;16(7):1429-38. PDF

Ng SP, Billings KS, Ohashi T, Allen MD, Best RB, Randles LG, Erickson HP, Clarke J. Designing an extracellular matrix protein with enhanced mechanical stability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007;104(23):9633-7. PDF

Takahashi S, Leiss M, Moser M, Ohashi T, Kitao T, Heckmann D, Pfeifer A, Kessler H, Takagi J, Erickson HP and others. The RGD motif in fibronectin is essential for development but dispensable for fibril assembly. J Cell Biol 2007. PDF

2006

Abu-Lail, N. I., Ohashi, T., Clark, R. L., Erickson, H. P. and Zauscher, S. (2006). Understanding the elasticity of fibronectin fibrils: Unfolding strengths of FN-III and GFP domains measured by single molecule force spectroscopy. J Struct Biol 25, 175-84. PDF

White, G. E. and Erickson, H. P. (2006). Sequence divergence of coiled coils-structural rods, myosin filament packing, and the extraordinary conservation of cohesins. J Mol Biol 154, 111-21. PDF
Osawa, M. and H. P. Erickson (2006). FtsZ from divergent foreign bacteria can function for cell division in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 188(20): 7132-40. PDF

2005

Chen, Y., K. Bjornson, S.D. Redick, and H.P. Erickson. 2005. A rapid fluorescence assay for FtsZ assembly indicates cooperative assembly with a dimer nucleus. Biophysical J. 88:505-514. PDF
Redick, S.D., J. Stricker, G. Briscoe, and H.P. Erickson. 2005. Mutants of FtsZ targeting the protofilament interface – effects on cell division and GTPase activity. J. Bacteriol. 187:2727-2736. PDF
Sontag, C.A., J.T. Staley, and H.P. Erickson. 2005. In vitro assembly and GTP hydrolysis by bacterial tubulins, BtubA and BtubB. J. Cell Biol. in press. PDF
Chen, Y. and H.P. Erickson, 2005. Rapid in vitro assembly dynamics and subunit turnover of FtsZ demonstrated by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. J. Biol. Chem. 280:22549-22554. PDF
Osawa, M. and H.P. Erickson. 2005. Probing the domain structure of FtsZ by random truncation and insertion of GFP. Microbiology. 151: p. 4033-43. PDF
Ohashi, T. and H.P. Erickson. 2005. Domain unfolding plays a role in superfibronectin formation. J Biol Chem. 280: 39143-51. PDF

2004

Anderson, D.E., F.J. Gueiros-Filho, and H.P. Erickson. 2004. Assembly dynamics of FtsZ rings in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli and effects of FtsZ-regulating proteins. J. Bacteriol. 186:5775-5781. PDF
Ohashi, T., and H.P. Erickson. 2004. The disulfide bonding pattern in ficolin multimers. J Biol Chem. 279:6534-9. PDF
Ingham, K.C., S.A. Brew, and H.P. Erickson. 2004. Localization of a cryptic binding site for tenascin on fibronectin. J Biol Chem. 279:28132-5. PDF

2003

Caplan, M., and H.P. Erickson. 2003. Apparent cooperative assembly of the bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ demonstrated by isothermal titration calorimetry. J Biol Chem. 278:13784-13788 PDF
Li, F., S.D. Redick, H.P. Erickson, and V.T. Moy. 2003. Force Measurements of the alpha(5)beta(1) Integrin-Fibronectin Interaction. Biophys J. 84:1252-62. PDF
Stricker, J., and H.P. Erickson. 2003. In vivo characterization of Escherichia coli ftsZ mutants: effects on Z-ring structure and function. J Bacteriol. 185:4796-805. PDF

2002

Cytoskeleton and cell motility

Erickson, H.P. 2002. Stretching fibronectin. J. Musc. Res. Cell Motil. 22: in press. PDF
Ohashi, T., C.A. Hale, P.A. De Boer, and H.P. Erickson. 2002. Structural Evidence that the P/Q Domain of ZipA Is an Unstructured, Flexible Tether between the Membrane and the C-Terminal FtsZ-Binding Domain. J Bacteriol. 184:4313-4315.PDF
Stricker, J. 2002. PhD Dissertation. Investigations into the Structure and Function of the Escherichia coli FtsZ-Ring. PDF
Stricker, J., P. Maddox, E.D. Salmon, and H.P. Erickson. 2002. Rapid assembly dynamics of the Escherichia coli FtsZ-ring demonstrated by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:3171-3175. PDF.
Anderson, D.E., A. Losada, H.P. Erickson, and T. Hirano. 2002. Condensin and cohesin display different arm conformations with characteristic hinge angles. J.Cell Biol. 156:419-24. PDF

Extracellular matrix and cell adhesion

Ohashi, T., D.P. Kiehart, and H.P. Erickson. 2002. Dual labeling of the fibronectin matrix and actin cytoskeleton with green fluorescent protein variants. J.Cell Sci. 115:1221-9. PDF. Get the movie from the J. Cell Sci. web page.
Coussen F, Choquet D, Sheetz MP and Erickson HP 2002. Trimers of the fibronectin cell adhesion domain localize to actin filament bundles and undergo rearward translocation. J.Cell Sci. 115: 2581-2590. PDF
Takagi J, DeBottis DP, Erickson HP and Springer TA 2002. The role of the specificity determining loop of the integrin beta subunit I-like domain in autonomous expression, association with the alpha subunit, and ligand binding. Biochemistry 41: 4339-47. PDF

2001

Cytoskeleton and cell motility

Romberg, L., M. Simon, and H.P. Erickson. 2001. Polymerization of FtsZ, a bacterial homolog of tubulin: Is assembly cooperative? J.Biol.Chem. 276:11743-11753. PDF
Erickson, H.P. 2001. Cytoskeleton - Evolution in bacteria. Nature. 413:30. PDF.
Anderson, D.E., K.M. Trujillo, P. Sung, and H.P. Erickson. 2001. Structure of the Rad50 x Mre11 DNA repair complex from Saccharomyces cerevisiae by electron microscopy. J.Biol.Chem. 276:37027-33. PDF
Lu, C., J. Stricker, and H.P. Erickson. 2001. Site-specific mutations of FtsZ - effects on GTPase and in vitro assembly. BMC Microbiol. 1:7. PDF.
Erickson, H.P. 2001. The FtsZ protofilament and attachment of ZipA-structural constraints on the FtsZ power stroke. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 13:55-60. PDF
Hirano, M., D.E. Anderson, H.P. Erickson, and T. Hirano. 2001. Bimodal regulation of SMC ATPase by intra- and inter-molecular interactions. EMBO J. 20:3238-3250. PDF
Cassimeris, L., D.L. Gard, P.T. Tran, and H.P. Erickson. 2001. XMAP215 is a long thin molecule, which does not increase microtubule stiffness. J.Cell Sci. 114:3025-3033. PDF
Li, H., A.F. Oberhauser, S.D. Redick, M. Carrion-Vazquez, H.P. Erickson, and J.M. Fernandez. 2001. Multiple conformations of PEVK proteins detected by single-molecule techniques. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 98:10682-10686. PDF.

Extracellular matrix and cell adhesion

Sakai, T., K.J. Johnson, M. Murozono, K. Sakai, M.A. Magnuson, T. Wieloch, T. Cronberg, A. Isshiki, H.P. Erickson, and R. Fassler. 2001. Plasma fibronectin supports neuronal survival and reduces brain injury following transient focal cerebral ischemia but is not essential for skin-wound healing and hemostasis. Nat Med. 7:324-330. PDF --- See also commentary by Mosher. PDF
Schürmann, G., J. Haspel, M. Grumet, and H.P. Erickson. 2001. Cell adhesion molecule L1 in folded (horseshoe) and extended conformations. Mol. Biol. Cell. 12:1765-1773. PDF
Haspel, J., Schurmann, G., Jacob, J., Erickson, H. P. and Grumet, M. (2001). Disulfide-mediated dimerization of L1 Ig domains. J.Neurosci.Res. 66, 347-355.
Jun, C.D., C.V. Carman, S.D. Redick, M. Shimaoka, H.P. Erickson, and T.A. Springer. 2001. Ultrastructure and function of dimeric, soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). J.Biol.Chem. 276:29019-27. PDF.
Takagi, J., H.P. Erickson, and T.A. Springer. 2001. C-terminal opening mimics 'inside out' activation of integrin alpha5beta1. Nat.Struct.Biol. 8:412-416. PDF.
Ghert, M. A., Jung, S. T., Qi Wn, W. N., Harrelson, J. M., Erickson, H. P., Block, J. A. and Scully, S. P. (2001). The clinical significance of tenascin-C splice variant expression in chondrosarcoma. Oncology 61, 306-14.
Ghert, M. A., Qi, W. N., Erickson, H. P., Block, J. A. and Scully, S. P. (2001). Tenascin-C splice variant adhesive/anti-adhesive effects on chondrosarcoma cell attachment to fibronectin.Cell Struct Funct 26, 179-87.
2000
Lu, C.L., M. Reedy, and H.P. Erickson. 2000. Straight and curved conformations of FtsZ are regulated by GTP hydrolysis. J.Bacteriol. 182:164-170. PDF
Erickson, H.P. 2000. Dynamin and FtsZ - Missing links in mitochondrial and bacterial division [Review]. J.Cell Biol. 148:1103-1105. PDF
Fong, A.M., H.P. Erickson, J.P. Zachariah, S. Poon, N.J. Schamberg, T. Imai, and D.D. Patel. 2000. Ultrastructure and Function of the Fractalkine Mucin Domain in CX(3)C Chemokine Domain Presentation. J.Biol.Chem. 275:3781-3786.
Redick, S.D., D.L. Settles, G. Briscoe, and H.P. Erickson. 2000. Defining fibronectin's cell adhesion synergy site by site-directed mutagenesis. J.Cell Biol. 149:521-527. PDF
Erickson, H.P. 2000. Gamma-tubulin nucleation: template or protofilament? Nat.Cell Biol. 2:E93-E96. PDF
Yokoyama, K., H.P. Erickson, Y. Ikeda, and Y. Takada. 2000. Identification of amino acid sequences in fibrinogen gamma-chain and tenascin-C C-terminal domains critical for binding to integrin alpha(v)beta(3). J.Biol.Chem. 275:16891-16898.
Champagne, M.B., K.A. Edwards, H.P. Erickson, and D.P. Kiehart. 2000. Drosophila stretchin-MLCK is a novel member of the titin/myosin light chain kinase family. J.Mol.Biol. 300:1279-1297. PDF 1999
Ohashi, T., D.P. Kiehart, and H.P. Erickson. 1999. Dynamics and elasticity of the fibronectin matrix in living cell culture visualized by fibronectin-green fluorescent protein. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 96:2153-2158. PDF --- See also commentary by Hynes PDF --- And see the MOVIE
Lu, C.L., and H.P. Erickson. 1999. The straight and curved conformation of FtsZ protofilaments-evidence for rapid exchange of GTP into the curved protofilament. Cell Struct.Funct. 24:285-290. PDF
Johnson, K.J., H. Sage, G. Briscoe, and H.P. Erickson. 1999. The compact conformation of fibronectin is determined by intramolecular ionic interactions. J.Biol.Chem. 274:15473-15479. PDF
1998
Seiffert, M., S.C. Beck, F. Schermutzki, C.A. Muller, H.P. Erickson, and G. Klein. 1998.Mitogenic and adhesive effects of tenascin-C on human hematopoietic cells are mediated by various functional domains. Matrix Biology. 17:47-63.
Erickson, H.P., and J. Stricker. 1998. FtsZ (Guidebook to Cytoskeletal Proteins). In Guidebook to the cytoskeletal and motor proteins. T. Kreis and R. Vale, editors. Oxford University Press, Oxford. in press.
Lu, C., and H.P. Erickson. 1998. Purification and assembly of FtsZ. Methods Enzymol. 298:305-313.
Lu, C., J. Stricker, and H.P. Erickson. 1998. FtsZ from Escherichia coli, Azotobacter vinelandii, and Thermotoga maritima - quantitation, GTP hydrolysis, and assembly. Cell Motility & the Cytoskeleton. 40:71-86. PDF
Akke, M., J. Liu, J. Cavanagh, H.P. Erickson, and A.G. Palmer, III. 1998. Pervasive conformational fluctuations on microsecond time scales in a fibronectin type III domain. Nature Struct.Biol. 5:55-59.
Erickson, H.P. 1998. Atomic structures of tubulin and FtsZ. Trends in Cell Biology. 8:133-137. PDF
Oberhauser, A.F., P.E. Marszalek, H.P. Erickson, and J.M. Fernandez. 1998. The molecular elasticity of the extracellular matrix protein tenascin. Nature. 393:181-185. PDF
Denda, S., U. Muller, K.L. Crossin, H.P. Erickson, and L.F. Reichardt. 1998. Utilization of a soluble integrin-alkaline phosphatase chimera to characterize integrin alpha-8 beta-1 receptor interactions with tenascin - murine alpha-8-beta-1 binds to the RGD site in tenascin-C fragments, but not to native tenascin-C. Biochemistry. 37:5464-5474.
Melby, T.E., C.N. Ciampaglio, G. Briscoe, and H.P. Erickson. 1998. The symmetrical structure of structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) and MukB proteins: long, antiparallel coiled coils, folded at a flexible hinge. J.Cell Biol. 142:1595-1604. PDF
Ohashi, T., and H.P. Erickson. 1998. Oligomeric structure and tissue distribution of ficolins from mouse, pig and human. Archives of Biochemistry & Biophysics. 360:223 232.
Kumar, J., H.P. Erickson, and M.P. Sheetz. 1998. Ultrastructural and biochemical properties of the 120-kDa form of chick kinectin. J.Biol.Chem. 273:31738-31743. 1997
Settles, D.L., M. Kusakabe, D.A. Steindler, H. Fillmore, and H.P. Erickson. 1997. Tenascin-C knockout mouse has no detectable tenascin-C protein. J.Neurosci.Res. 47:109-117.
Clark, R.A., H.P. Erickson, and T.A. Springer. 1997. Tenascin supports lymphocyte rolling.J.Cell Biol. 137:755-765.
Ohashi, T., and H.P. Erickson. 1997. Two oligomeric forms of plasma ficolin have differential lectin activity. J.Biol.Chem. 272:14220-14226. PDF
Erickson, H.P. 1997. FtsZ, a tubulin homolog, in prokaryote cell division. Trends Cell Biol. 7:362-367. PDF
Chung, C.Y., and H.P. Erickson. 1997. Glycosaminoglycans modulate fibronectin matrix assembly and are essential for matrix incorporation of tenascin-C. J.Cell Sci. 110:1413-1419. PDF
Lu, C., and H.P. Erickson. 1997. Expression in Escherichia coli of the thermostable DNA polymerase from Pyrococcus furiosus. Protein Expr.Purif. 11:179-184.
Mehta, P., K.D. Patel, T.M. Laue, H.P. Erickson, and R.P. McEver. 1997. Soluble monomeric P-selectin containing only the lectin and epidermal growth factor domains binds to P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 on leukocytes. Blood. 90:2381-2389.
O'Brien, E.T., E.D. Salmon, and H.P. Erickson. 1997. How calcium causes microtubule depolymerization. Cell Motil.Cytoskeleton. 36:125-135.
Erickson, H.P. 1997. Stretching single protein molecules: titin is a weird spring. Science. 276:1090-1092.
Carr, P.A., H.P. Erickson, and A.G. Palmer, III. 1997. Backbone dynamics of homologous fibronectin type III cell adhesion domains from fibronectin and tenascin.Structure. 5:949-959.
Erickson, H.P. 1997. A tenascin knockout with a phenotype. Nat.Genet. 17:5-7.
Siever, D.A., and H.P. Erickson. 1997. Extracellular annexin II. Int.J.Biochem.Cell Biol. 29:1219-1223.

Publications 1996 and earlier