Mutsuki Amano

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Best Publications

• Regulation of myosin phosphatase by Rho and Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase)

  Kazushi Kimura;Masaaki Ito;Mutsuki Amano;Kazuyasu Chihara

  3621
  Citations

• Phosphorylation and activation of myosin by Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase).

  Mutsuki Amano;Masaaki Ito;Kazushi Kimura;Yuko Fukata

  2682
  Citations

• Formation of Actin Stress Fibers and Focal Adhesions Enhanced by Rho-Kinase

  Mutsuki Amano;Kazuyasu Chihara;Kazushi Kimura;Yuko Fukata

  1395
  Citations

• Rho-associated kinase, a novel serine/threonine kinase, as a putative target for small GTP binding protein Rho

  T. Matsui;M. Amano;T. Yamamoto;K. Chihara

  1368
  Citations

• Regulation of the cytoskeleton and cell adhesion by the Rho family GTPases in mammalian cells.

  K. Kaibuchi;S. Kuroda;M. Amano

  1335
  Citations

• Rho‐kinase/ROCK: A key regulator of the cytoskeleton and cell polarity

  Mutsuki Amano;Masanori Nakayama;Kozo Kaibuchi

  1196
  Citations

• Rho–Rho-kinase pathway in smooth muscle contraction and cytoskeletal reorganization of non-muscle cells

  Yuko Fukata;Kozo Kaibuchi;Mutsuki Amano

  1101
  Citations

• Rho-Kinase Phosphorylates COOH-terminal Threonines of Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin (ERM) Proteins and Regulates Their Head-to-Tail Association

  Takeshi Matsui;Masato Maeda;Yoshinori Doi;Shigenobu Yonemura

  1036
  Citations

• Rho-associated Kinase Directly Induces Smooth Muscle Contraction through Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation

  Yasuko Kureishi;Sei Kobayashi;Mutsuki Amano;Kazushi Kimura

  847
  Citations

• Phosphorylation of Myosin-Binding Subunit (Mbs) of Myosin Phosphatase by Rho-Kinase in Vivo

  Yoji Kawano;Yuko Fukata;Noriko Oshiro;Mutsuki Amano

  727
  Citations

• Regulation and functions of Rho-associated kinase.

  Mutsuki Amano;Yuko Fukata;Kozo Kaibuchi;Kozo Kaibuchi

  716
  Citations

• CRMP-2 induces axons in cultured hippocampal neurons

  Naoyuki Inagaki;Kazuyasu Chihara;Nariko Arimura;Nariko Arimura;Céline Ménager;Céline Ménager

  629
  Citations

• Identification of a putative target for Rho as the serine-threonine kinase protein kinase N

  Mutsuki Amano;Hideyuki Mukai;Yoshitaka Ono;Kazuyasu Chihara

  610
  Citations

• Rho-kinase-mediated pathway induces enhanced myosin light chain phosphorylations in a swine model of coronary artery spasm.

  Hiroaki Shimokawa;Minoru Seto;Naoki Katsumata;Mutsuki Amano

  478
  Citations

• Thrombin Inactivates Myosin Light Chain Phosphatase via Rho and Its Target Rho Kinase in Human Endothelial Cells

  Markus Essler;Mutsuki Amano;Hans Joachim Kruse;Kozo Kaibuchi

  443
  Citations

• Phosphorylation of collapsin response mediator protein-2 by Rho-kinase. Evidence for two separate signaling pathways for growth cone collapse.

  Nariko Arimura;Naoyuki Inagaki;Kazuyasu Chihara;Céline Ménager

  439
  Citations

• Rho-Kinase–Mediated Contraction of Isolated Stress Fibers

  Kazuo Katoh;Yumiko Kano;Mutsuki Amano;Hirofumi Onishi

  429
  Citations

• Rho-associated Kinase of Chicken Gizzard Smooth Muscle

  Jianhua Feng;Masaaki Ito;Yasuko Kureishi;Kazuhito Ichikawa

  374
  Citations

• The COOH terminus of Rho-kinase negatively regulates rho-kinase activity.

  Mutsuki Amano;Kazuyasu Chihara;Nao Nakamura;Takako Kaneko

  367
  Citations

• Myosin II activation promotes neurite retraction during the action of Rho and Rho-kinase

  Mutsuki Amano;Kazuyasu Chihara;Nao Nakamura;Yuko Fukata

  352
  Citations