Nicholas J. Cowan

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Best Publications

• Number and evolutionary conservation of α- and β-tubulin and cytoplasmic β- and γ-actin genes using specific cloned cDNA probes

  Don W. Cleveland;Margaret A. Lopata;Raymond J. MacDonald;Nicholas J. Cowan

  2045
  Citations

• Neurofilament gene expression: a major determinant of axonal caliber.

  Paul N. Hoffman;Don W. Cleveland;John W. Griffin;Phillip W. Landes

  924
  Citations

• The primary structure and heterogeneity of tau protein from mouse brain

  Gloria Lee;Nicholas Cowan;Marc Kirschner

  914
  Citations

• Projection domains of MAP2 and tau determine spacings between microtubules in dendrites and axons.

  J. Chen;Y. Kanai;N. J. Cowan;N. Hirokawa

  792
  Citations

• Prefoldin, a Chaperone that Delivers Unfolded Proteins to Cytosolic Chaperonin

  Irina E Vainberg;Sally A Lewis;Heidi Rommelaere;Christophe Ampe

  768
  Citations

• A cytoplasmic chaperonin that catalyzes β-actin folding

  Yijie Gao;John O. Thomas;Robert L. Chow;Gwo-Hwa Lee

  701
  Citations

• Microtubule-associated protein MAP2 shares a microtubule binding motif with tau protein

  Sally A. Lewis;Dashou H. Wang;Nicholas J. Cowan

  676
  Citations

• GFAP Is Necessary for the Integrity of CNS White Matter Architecture and Long-Term Maintenance of Myelination

  Wolfgang Liedtke;Winfried Edelmann;Phyllis L. Bieri;Fung Chow Chiu

  667
  Citations

• Mutations in TUBG1 , DYNC1H1 , KIF5C and KIF2A cause malformations of cortical development and microcephaly

  Karine Poirier;Nicolas Lebrun;Nicolas Lebrun;Loic Broix;Loic Broix;Guoling Tian

  520
  Citations

• Mutations in α-Tubulin Cause Abnormal Neuronal Migration in Mice and Lissencephaly in Humans

  David A. Keays;Guoling Tian;Karine Poirier;Guo Jen Huang

  486
  Citations

• Sequence of a cDNA clone encoding mouse glial fibrillary acidic protein: structural conservation of intermediate filaments

  Sally A. Lewis;Joanna M. Balcarek;Veronica Krek;Michael Shelanski

  470
  Citations

• The microtubule binding domain of microtubule-associated protein MAP1B contains a repeated sequence motif unrelated to that of MAP2 and tau.

  Melanie Noble;Sally A. Lewis;Nicholas J. Cowan

  414
  Citations

• Mutations in the [beta]-tubulin gene TUBB2B result in asymmetrical polymicrogyria

  Xavier Hubert Jaglin;Karine Poirier;Karine Poirier;Yoann Saillour;Yoann Saillour;Emmanuelle Buhler

  409
  Citations

• Pathway leading to correctly folded beta-tubulin.

  Guoling Tian;Yi Huang;Heidi Rommelaere;Joel Vandekerckhove

  392
  Citations

• Organization of microtubules in dendrites and axons is determined by a short Hydrophobic zipper in microtubule-associated proteins MAP2 and tau

  Sally A. Lewis;Ivan E. Ivanov;Gwo-Hwa Lee;Nicholas J. Cowan

  388
  Citations

• Expression of human alpha-tubulin genes: interspecies conservation of 3' untranslated regions.

  N J Cowan;P R Dobner;E V Fuchs;D W Cleveland

  384
  Citations

• Six mouse alpha-tubulin mRNAs encode five distinct isotypes: testis-specific expression of two sister genes.

  A Villasante;D Wang;P Dobner;P Dolph

  359
  Citations

• Evolutionary history of a multigene family: An expressed human β-tubulin gene and three processed pseudogenes

  Mary Gwo-Shu Lee;Sally A. Lewis;C.Deborah Wilde;Nicholas J. Cowan

  348
  Citations

• The mammalian beta-tubulin repertoire: hematopoietic expression of a novel, heterologous beta-tubulin isotype.

  Dashou Wang;Alfredo Villasante;Sally A. Lewis;Nicholas J. Cowan

  342
  Citations

• Free intermingling of mammalian β-tubulin isotypes among functionally distinct microtubules

  Sally A. Lewis;Wei Gu;Nicholas J. Cowan

  317
  Citations