Deborah E. Leckband

Research.com Recognitions

• 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
• 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2004 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Best Publications

• Intermolecular forces in biology.

  Deborah Leckband;Jacob Israelachvili

  858
  Citations

• Vinculin potentiates E-cadherin mechanosensing and is recruited to actin-anchored sites within adherens junctions in a myosin II-dependent manner.

  Quint le Duc;Quanming Shi;Iris Blonk;Arnoud Sonnenberg

  727
  Citations

• Measuring the forces that control protein interactions.

  Deborah Leckband

  559
  Citations

• PNIPAM chain collapse depends on the molecular weight and grafting density.

  Kyle N. Plunkett;Xi Zhu;Jeffrey S. Moore;Deborah E. Leckband

  490
  Citations

• Tissue organization by cadherin adhesion molecules: dynamic molecular and cellular mechanisms of morphogenetic regulation

  Carien M. Niessen;Deborah Leckband;Alpha S. Yap

  488
  Citations

• Cadherin Adhesion and Mechanotransduction

  Deborah E Leckband;J. de Rooij

  436
  Citations

• Development and characterization of an ELISA assay in PDMS microfluidic channels

  E Eteshola;D Leckband

  430
  Citations

• Modulation of interaction forces between bilayers exposing short-chained ethylene oxide headgroups.

  T.L. Kuhl;D.E. Leckband;D.D. Lasic;J.N. Israelachvili

  429
  Citations

• Grafted poly(ethylene oxide) brushes as nonfouling surface coatings.

  Deborah E Leckband;S. Sheth;A. Halperin

  404
  Citations

• Measurements of attractive forces between proteins and end-grafted poly(ethylene glycol) chains

  S. R. Sheth;Deborah E Leckband

  343
  Citations

• A quantitative assessment of heterogeneity for surface-immobilized proteins.

  Ravi A. Vijayendran;Deborah E. Leckband

  339
  Citations

• Direct evidence that neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) polysialylation increases intermembrane repulsion and abrogates adhesion.

  Colin P. Johnson;Ichiro Fujimoto;Urs Rutishauser;Deborah E. Leckband

  291
  Citations

• Mechanism and dynamics of cadherin adhesion.

  Deborah E Leckband;Anil Prakasam

  280
  Citations

• Long-term stability of grafted polyethylene glycol surfaces for use with microstamped substrates in neuronal cell culture.

  Darren W. Branch;Bruce C. Wheeler;Gregory J. Brewer;Deborah E. Leckband

  277
  Citations

• DIRECT FORCE MEASUREMENTS OF SPECIFIC AND NONSPECIFIC PROTEIN INTERACTIONS

  D. E. Leckband;F. J. Schmitt;J. N. Israelachvili;Wolfgang Knoll

  263
  Citations

• Chain-length dependence of the protein and cell resistance of oligo(ethylene glycol)-terminated self-assembled monolayers on gold

  Boru Zhu;Thomas Eurell;Rico Gunawan;Deborah Leckband

  242
  Citations

• Higher order self-assembly of vesicles by site-specific binding

  Shivkumar Chiruvolu;Scott Walker;Jacob Israelachvili;Franz Josef Schmitt

  232
  Citations

• Direct Measurement of Polyethylene Glycol Induced Depletion Attraction between Lipid Bilayers

  Tonya Kuhl;Yuqing Guo;James L. Alderfer;Alan D. Berman

  232
  Citations

• Long-term maintenance of patterns of hippocampal pyramidal cells on substrates of polyethylene glycol and microstamped polylysine

  D.W. Branch;B.C. Wheeler;G.J. Brewer;D.E. Leckband

  230
  Citations

• Mechanotransduction at cadherin-mediated adhesions

  Deborah E Leckband;Quint le Duc;Ning Wang;Johan de Rooij

  228
  Citations

• Direct Molecular Force Measurements of Multiple Adhesive Interactions between Cadherin Ectodomains

  S. Sivasankar;W. Brieher;W. Brieher;N. Lavrik;B. Gumbiner

  218
  Citations