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John A. Hammer is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. Additional subfields include Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Immunology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their body of work addresses key topics such as Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Microtubule and Mitosis Dynamics, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Cell Adhesion Molecules Research, RNA Research and Splicing, and Muscle Physiology and Disorders.

Frequently publishing in venues like bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Cell Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cells, and eLife, the scientist maintains a consistent presence in journals related to cell and molecular biology.

Their recent publications include:

  • "ZEISS Airyscan: Optimizing Usage for Fast, Gentle, Super-Resolution Imaging" (2021), published in Methods in molecular biology
  • "Endoplasmic reticulum visits highly active spines and prevents runaway potentiation of synapses" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "OPA1 helical structures give perspective to mitochondrial dysfunction" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Non-muscle myosin 2 at a glance" (2023), published in Journal of Cell Science
  • "Myosin-5 varies its step length to carry cargo straight along the irregular F-actin track" (2024), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In collaborative work, John A. Hammer frequently coauthors with researchers including Xufeng Wu, Richard E. Cheney, Yang-In Yim, Ernest G. Heimsath, and Jia C. Wang.

Best Publications

  • Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging Molecules to Embryos at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

    Bi Chang Chen;Wesley R. Legant;Kai Wang;Lin Shao

  • Extended-resolution structured illumination imaging of endocytic and cytoskeletal dynamics

    Dong Li;Lin Shao;Bi-Chang Chen;Xi Zhang;Xi Zhang

  • Identification of an organelle receptor for myosin-Va

    Xufeng S. Wu;Kang Rao;Hong Zhang;Fei Wang

  • Visualization of melanosome dynamics within wild-type and dilute melanocytes suggests a paradigm for myosin V function In vivo.

    Xufeng Wu;Blair Bowers;Kang Rao;Qin Wei

  • Mitochondrial fission facilitates the selective mitophagy of protein aggregates.

    Jonathon L. Burman;Sarah Pickles;Chunxin Wang;Shiori Sekine

  • Two-headed binding of a processive myosin to F-actin

    Matthew L. Walker;Stan A. Burgess;James R. Sellers;Fei Wang

  • Walking to work: roles for class V myosins as cargo transporters

    John A. Hammer;James R. Sellers

  • Defective granule exocytosis in Rab27a-deficient lymphocytes from Ashen mice.

    Elias K. Haddad;Xufeng Wu;John A. Hammer;Pierre A. Henkart

  • Myosins of nonmuscle cells.

    E D Korn;J A Hammer

  • MYOSIN V ASSOCIATES WITH MELANOSOMES IN MOUSE MELANOCYTES: EVIDENCE THAT MYOSIN V IS AN ORGANELLE MOTOR

    Xufeng Wu;Blair Bowers;Qin Wei;Bob Kocher

  • Rab27a enables myosin Va-dependent melanosome capture by recruiting the myosin to the organelle

    X. Wu;K. Rao;M.B. Bowers;N.G. Copeland

  • Actin retrograde flow and actomyosin II arc contraction drive receptor cluster dynamics at the immunological synapse in Jurkat T cells

    Jason Yi;Jason Yi;Xufeng S. Wu;Travis Crites;John A. Hammer

  • Linking molecular motors to membrane cargo

    Anna Akhmanova;John A Hammer

  • DICTYOSTELIUM MUTANTS LACKING MULTIPLE CLASSIC MYOSIN I ISOFORMS REVEAL COMBINATIONS OF SHARED AND DISTINCT FUNCTIONS

    Goeh Jung;Xufeng Wu;John A. Hammer

  • The Dictyostelium Carmil Protein Links Capping Protein and the Arp2/3 Complex to Type I Myosins through Their Sh3 Domains

    Goeh Jung;Kirsten Remmert;Xufeng Wu;Joanne M. Volosky

  • Rabs grab motors: defining the connections between Rab GTPases and motor proteins.

    John A. Hammer;Xufeng S. Wu

  • Rab27a is an essential component of melanosome receptor for myosin Va.

    Xufeng Wu;Fei Wang;Kang Rao;James R. Sellers

  • Nonmuscle Myosin II Isoforms Coassemble in Living Cells

    Jordan R. Beach;Lin Shao;Kirsten Remmert;Dong Li

  • Effect of ADP and Ionic Strength on the Kinetic and Motile Properties of Recombinant Mouse Myosin V

    Fei Wang;Lingfeng Chen;Oreste Arcucci;Estelle V. Harvey

  • The cargo-binding domain regulates structure and activity of myosin 5

    Kavitha Thirumurugan;Takeshi Sakamoto;John A. Hammer;James R. Sellers

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Sellers
James R. Sellers National Institutes of Health
Edward D. Korn
Edward D. Korn National Institutes of Health
John T. Brooks
John T. Brooks Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lin Shao
Lin Shao Texas A&M University
Kate Buchacz
Kate Buchacz Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael R. Gold
Michael R. Gold University of British Columbia
Pragna Patel
Pragna Patel Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Joan S. Chmiel
Joan S. Chmiel Northwestern University
Neal G. Copeland
Neal G. Copeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Nancy A. Jenkins
Nancy A. Jenkins The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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