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Overview

James E. Bear is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine, with a particular focus on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Immunology and Allergy.

The scientist's work explores various topics including:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

James E. Bear has contributed to multiple recent papers. Noteworthy publications include:

  • The principles of directed cell migration, 2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Arp2/3 inactivation causes intervertebral disc and cartilage degeneration with dysregulated TonEBP-mediated osmoadaptation, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Coro1B and Coro1C regulate lamellipodia dynamics and cell motility by tuning branched actin turnover, 2022, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • A Photopolymerized Hydrogel System with Dual Stiffness Gradients Reveals Distinct Actomyosin-Based Mechano-Responses in Fibroblast Durotaxis, 2022, ACS Nano
  • An optogenetic switch for the Set2 methyltransferase provides evidence for transcription-dependent and -independent dynamics of H3K36 methylation, 2020, Genome Research

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations are:

  • Jason M. Haugh
  • Mitchell T. Butler
  • Sreeja B. Asokan
  • Brian Kuhlman
  • Jeremy D. Rotty

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Best Publications

  • Antagonism between Ena/VASP Proteins and Actin Filament Capping Regulates Fibroblast Motility

    James E. Bear;Tatyana M. Svitkina;Matthias Krause;Dorothy A. Schafer

  • Ena/VASP proteins: regulators of the actin cytoskeleton and cell migration.

    Matthias Krause;Erik W. Dent;James E. Bear;Joseph J. Loureiro

  • PEGylated PRINT Nanoparticles: The Impact of PEG Density on Protein Binding, Macrophage Association, Biodistribution, and Pharmacokinetics

    Jillian L. Perry;Kevin G. Reuter;Marc P. Kai;Kevin P. Herlihy;Kevin P. Herlihy

  • Using mechanobiological mimicry of red blood cells to extend circulation times of hydrogel microparticles

    Timothy J. Merkel;Stephen W. Jones;Kevin P. Herlihy;Farrell R. Kersey

  • Engineering an improved light-induced dimer (iLID) for controlling the localization and activity of signaling proteins

    Gurkan Guntas;Ryan A. Hallett;Seth P. Zimmerman;Tishan Williams

  • Arp2/3 Is Critical for Lamellipodia and Response to Extracellular Matrix Cues but Is Dispensable for Chemotaxis

    Congying Wu;Sreeja B. Asokan;Matthew E. Berginski;Elizabeth M. Haynes

  • Negative Regulation of Fibroblast Motility by Ena/VASP Proteins

    James E Bear;Joseph J Loureiro;Irina Libova;Reinhard Fässler

  • New insights into the regulation and cellular functions of the ARP2/3 complex

    Jeremy D. Rotty;Congying Wu;Congying Wu;James E. Bear

  • The principles of directed cell migration.

    Shuvasree SenGupta;Carole A Parent;James E Bear

  • Ena/VASP: towards resolving a pointed controversy at the barbed end

    James E. Bear;Frank B. Gertler

  • SCAR, a WASP-related Protein, Isolated as a Suppressor of Receptor Defects in Late Dictyostelium Development

    James E. Bear;John F. Rawls;Charles L. Saxe

  • Evading immune cell uptake and clearance requires PEG grafting at densities substantially exceeding the minimum for brush conformation

    Qi Yang;Stephen W. Jones;Christina L. Parker;William C. Zamboni

  • Profilin-1 Serves as a Gatekeeper for Actin Assembly by Arp2/3-Dependent and -Independent Pathways

    Jeremy D. Rotty;Congying Wu;Elizabeth M. Haynes;Cristian Suarez

  • Coronin 1B Coordinates Arp2/3 Complex and Cofilin Activities at the Leading Edge

    Liang Cai;Thomas W. Marshall;Andrea C. Uetrecht;Dorothy A. Schafer

  • Coronin 1B Antagonizes Cortactin and Remodels Arp2/3-Containing Actin Branches in Lamellipodia

    Liang Cai;Alexander M. Makhov;Dorothy A. Schafer;James E. Bear

  • The actin regulator coronin 1A is mutant in a thymic egress-deficient mouse strain and in a patient with severe combined immunodeficiency.

    Lawrence R Shiow;David W Roadcap;Kenneth Paris;Susan R Watson

  • cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylation of EVL, a Mena/VASP relative, regulates its interaction with actin and SH3 domains.

    Anja Lambrechts;Adam V. Kwiatkowski;Lorene M. Lanier;James E. Bear

  • Coronins: the return of the crown

    Andrea C. Uetrecht;James E. Bear

  • A cell-based assay for aggregation inhibitors as therapeutics of polyglutamine-repeat disease and validation in Drosophila

    Barbara L. Apostol;Alexsey Kazantsev;Simona Raffioni;Katalin Illes

  • Nanoparticle clearance is governed by Th1/Th2 immunity and strain background

    Stephen W. Jones;Reid A. Roberts;Gregory R. Robbins;Jillian L. Perry

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman E. Sharpless
Norman E. Sharpless National Institutes of Health
Brian Kuhlman
Brian Kuhlman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joseph M. DeSimone
Joseph M. DeSimone Stanford University
Jenny P.-Y. Ting
Jenny P.-Y. Ting University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan S. Serody
Jonathan S. Serody University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tatyana Svitkina
Tatyana Svitkina University of Pennsylvania
Jürgen Wehland
Jürgen Wehland Technische Universität Braunschweig
Albert S. Baldwin
Albert S. Baldwin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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