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Alan G. Weeds is affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom. Their work is situated within an established research institute noted for advancing molecular biology and related scientific fields.

While specific recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, and book publications are not listed, the association with the MRC Laboratory suggests involvement in research areas connected to molecular biology and biomedical sciences. Their research expertise is reflected through contributions linked to this prominent institution.

The available data does not specify particular fields, subfields, or research topics related to their work, nor does it list awards or distinctions. The absence of these details precludes a detailed discussion of specialization or recognition.

Given the limited information regarding publications, collaborations, and research focus, the profile centers primarily on the scientist's affiliation and presumed research domain within molecular biology as suggested by the institutional connection.

Best Publications

  • Separation of subfragment-1 isoenzymes from rabbit skeletal muscle myosin.

    A. G. Weeds;R. S. Taylor

  • Cofilin Changes the Twist of F-Actin: Implications for Actin Filament Dynamics and Cellular Function

    Amy McGough;Brian Pope;Wah Chiu;Alan Weeds

  • Studies on the chymotryptic digestion of myosin. Effects of divalent cations on proteolytic susceptibility.

    Alan G. Weeds;Brian Pope

  • Structure of gelsolin segment 1-actin complex and the mechanism of filament severing

    P. J. McLaughlin;J. T. Gooch;H.-G. Mannherz;A. G. Weeds

  • Actin-binding proteins--regulators of cell architecture and motility.

    Alan Weeds

  • Studies on the role of myosin alkali light chains. Recombination and hybridization of light chains and heavy chains in subfragment-1 preparations.

    Paul D. Wagner;Alan G. Weeds

  • The Amino-Acid Sequence of the Alkali Light Chains of Rabbit Skeletal-Muscle Myosin

    Alan G. Weeds;Gerhard Frank

  • The ATPase activities of rat cardiac myosin isoenzymes

    Brian Pope;J.F.Y. Hoh;Alan Weeds

  • Partial purification and characterization of an actin depolymerizing factor from brain.

    J.R. Bamburg;J.R. Bamburg;H.E. Harris;A.G. Weeds

  • Identification of a region in segment 1 of gelsolin critical for actin binding.

    M. Way;B. Pope;J. Gooch;M. Hawkins

  • Myosin from cross-reinnervated cat muscles.

    A. G. Weeds;D. R. Trentham;C. J. C. Kean;A. J. Buller

  • Structural homology of myosin alkali light chains, troponin C and carp calcium binding protein.

    A. G. Weeds;A. D. McLachlan

  • Expression of human plasma gelsolin in Escherichia coli and dissection of actin binding sites by segmental deletion mutagenesis.

    M Way;J Gooch;B Pope;A G Weeds

  • Latrunculin B or ATP depletion induces cofilin-dependent translocation of actin into nuclei of mast cells.

    Annmarie Pendleton;Brian Pope;Alan Weeds;Anna Koffer

  • F-actin capping proteins.

    Alan Weeds;Sutherland Maciver

  • Expression of the N-terminal domain of dystrophin in E. coli and demonstration of binding to F-actin.

    M. Way;B. Pope;R.A. Cross;J. Kendrick-Jones

  • Regulation of the pollen-specific actin-depolymerizing factor LlADF1.

    Ellen G. Allwood;Richard G. Anthony;Andrei P. Smertenko;Stefanie Reichelt

  • Determining the differences in actin binding by human ADF and cofilin.

    Sharon Yeoh;Brian Pope;Hans G Mannherz;Alan Weeds

  • Evidence for functional homology in the F-actin binding domains of gelsolin and alpha-actinin: implications for the requirements of severing and capping.

    M Way;B Pope;A G Weeds

  • Solution structure of human cofilin: actin binding, pH sensitivity, and relationship to actin-depolymerizing factor.

    Brian J. Pope;Karen M. Zierler-Gould;Ronald Kühne;Alan G. Weeds

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Way
Michael Way The Francis Crick Institute
Hans Georg Mannherz
Hans Georg Mannherz Ruhr University Bochum
James R. Bamburg
James R. Bamburg Colorado State University
Brigitte M. Jockusch
Brigitte M. Jockusch Technische Universität Braunschweig
Patrick J. Hussey
Patrick J. Hussey Durham University
Alan R. Fersht
Alan R. Fersht University of Cambridge
Robert A. Cross
Robert A. Cross University of Warwick
Andrei Smertenko
Andrei Smertenko Washington State University
John Kendrick-Jones
John Kendrick-Jones MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Paul Digard
Paul Digard University of Edinburgh

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