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Overview

R. Dyche Mullins is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. Additional subfields of study associated with their research include Biophysics and Ecology.

Their scientific contributions address a range of topics, such as Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Microtubule and Mitosis Dynamics, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, Cellular Transport and Secretion, as well as Bacterial Biofilms and Quorum Sensing.

The researcher has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publications have appeared in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with fourteen papers. Other notable venues include eLife, where they have published four papers; Nature Communications and Molecular Biology of the Cell, both with two papers; and Cell, with one paper.

Recent papers authored by or coauthored with Mullins include:

  • The Global Phosphorylation Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2020, Cell
  • SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology, 2020, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • The surfaceome of multiple myeloma cells suggests potential immunotherapeutic strategies and protein markers of drug resistance, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Initiation and disassembly of filopodia tip complexes containing VASP and lamellipodin, 2020, Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • The molecular mechanism of load adaptation by branched actin networks, 2022, eLife

Collaborative efforts are a notable aspect of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include Samuel J. Lord, Arthur Charles-Orszag, Kristen Skruber, Benjamin J. Polacco, and Gwendolyn Μ. Jang.

Best Publications

  • Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton

    Daniel A. Fletcher;Daniel A. Fletcher;R. Dyche Mullins

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

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

  • Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Actin Filament Dynamics in Nonmuscle Cells

    T D Pollard;L Blanchoin;R D Mullins

  • The interaction of Arp2/3 complex with actin: Nucleation, high affinity pointed end capping, and formation of branching networks of filaments

    R. Dyche Mullins;John A. Heuser;Thomas D. Pollard

  • The Global Phosphorylation Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

    Mehdi Bouhaddou;Danish Memon;Bjoern Meyer;Kris M. White

  • Scar, a WASp-related protein, activates nucleation of actin filaments by the Arp2/3 complex.

    Machesky Lm;Mullins Rd;Higgs Hn;Kaiser Da

  • beta-arrestin-dependent endocytosis of proteinase-activated receptor 2 is required for intracellular targeting of activated ERK1/2.

    K.A. DeFea;J. Zalevsky;M.S. Thoma;O. Déry

  • Cellular control of actin nucleation

    Matthew D. Welch;R. Dyche Mullins

  • Integration of multiple signals through cooperative regulation of the N-WASP-Arp2/3 complex.

    Kenneth E. Prehoda;Jessica A. Scott;R. Dyche Mullins;Wendell A. Lim

  • SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology.

    Samuel J. Lord;Katrina B. Velle;R. Dyche Mullins;Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin

  • Drosophila Spire is an actin nucleation factor.

    Margot E. Quinlan;John E. Heuser;Eugen Kerkhoff;R. Dyche Mullins

  • Interactions of ADF/cofilin, Arp2/3 complex, capping protein and profilin in remodeling of branched actin filament networks.

    Laurent Blanchoin;Thomas D. Pollard;R.Dyche Mullins

  • Structure, subunit topology, and actin-binding activity of the Arp2/3 complex from Acanthamoeba.

    R. Dyche Mullins;Walter F. Stafford;Thomas D. Pollard

  • Dynamic Instability in a DNA-Segregating Prokaryotic Actin Homolog

    Ethan C. Garner;Christopher S. Campbell;R. Dyche Mullins

  • Capping protein increases the rate of actin-based motility by promoting filament nucleation by the Arp2/3 complex.

    Orkun Akin;R. Dyche Mullins

  • VASP is a processive actin polymerase that requires monomeric actin for barbed end association

    Scott D. Hansen;R. Dyche Mullins

  • p53-cofactor JMY is a multifunctional actin nucleation factor

    J. Bradley Zuchero;Amanda S. Coutts;Margot E. Quinlan;Nicholas B. La Thangue

  • Design of reversible, cysteine-targeted Michael acceptors guided by kinetic and computational analysis.

    Shyam Krishnan;Rand M. Miller;Boxue Tian;R. Dyche Mullins

  • Reconstitution of DNA Segregation Driven by Assembly of a Prokaryotic Actin Homolog

    Ethan C. Garner;Ethan C. Garner;Christopher S. Campbell;Christopher S. Campbell;Douglas B. Weibel;Douglas B. Weibel;R. Dyche Mullins;R. Dyche Mullins

  • Force Feedback Controls Motor Activity and Mechanical Properties of Self-Assembling Branched Actin Networks

    Peter Bieling;Peter Bieling;Tai-De Li;Tai-De Li;Tai-De Li;Julian Weichsel;Ryan McGorty

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Walter
Peter Walter University of California, San Francisco
Matthew P. Jacobson
Matthew P. Jacobson University of California, San Francisco
Thomas D. Pollard
Thomas D. Pollard Yale University
Ronald D. Vale
Ronald D. Vale University of California, San Francisco
Timothy J. Mitchison
Timothy J. Mitchison Harvard University
Edward H. Egelman
Edward H. Egelman University of Virginia
Joseph L. DeRisi
Joseph L. DeRisi University of California, San Francisco
John E. Heuser
John E. Heuser Washington University in St. Louis
Joan S. Brugge
Joan S. Brugge Harvard University
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago

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