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Sharyn A. Endow

Sharyn A. Endow

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
48
Citations
8643
World Ranking
18368
National Ranking
7501

Overview

Sharyn A. Endow is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scientific inquiry encompasses subfields such as Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Biotechnology.

Their scholarly work centers on topics including microtubule and mitosis dynamics, cellular mechanics and interactions, force microscopy techniques and applications, biofuel production and bioconversion, enzyme production and characterization, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, and micro and nano robotics.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Sharyn A. Endow include:

  • Structural transitions in kinesin minus-end directed microtubule motility, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Report on BASICS: Lesson Plan on Aerosols and Infection, 2021, The Biophysicist
  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of Cilia locally synthesize proteins to sustain their ultrastructure and functions., 2022, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • A new crystal structure of a kinesin mutant with greater mechanical output than wild type-identification of a structural element involved in force production, 2022, Biophysical Journal
  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of A hydrodynamic instability drives protein droplet formation on microtubules to nucleate branches., 2022, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Frequent co-authors with whom Sharyn A. Endow has collaborated include Matthew Y. Wang, Yuanyuan Wei, Chacko Jobichen, J. Sivaraman, and S Shibata.

Their publications have appeared most often in the venue Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature. Other publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Biophysicist, Biophysical Journal, and UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • A standardized kinesin nomenclature.

    Carolyn J. Lawrence;R. Kelly Dawe;Karen R. Christie;Don W. Cleveland

  • The Drosophila claret segregation protein is a minus-end directed motor molecule.

    Richard A. Walker;Edward D. Salmon;Sharyn A. Endow

  • Yeast Kar3 is a minus-end microtubule motor protein that destabilizes microtubules preferentially at the minus ends.

    S.A. Endow;S.J. Kang;L.L. Satterwhite;M.D. Rose

  • Mediation of meiotic and early mitotic chromosome segregation in Drosophila by a protein related to kinesin.

    Sharyn A. Endow;Steven Henikoff;Linda Soler-Niedziela;Linda Soler-Niedziela

  • Determinants of kinesin motor polarity

    Sharyn A. Endow;Kimberly W. Waligora

  • A mutant of the motor protein kinesin that moves in both directions on microtubules.

    Sharyn A. Endow;Hideo Higuchi

  • Kinesin proteins: a phylum of motors for microtubule-based motility.

    Jonathan D. Moore;Sharyn A. Endow

  • Motor proteins. 1: kinesins.

    Bloom Gs;Endow Sa

  • Structural and functional domains of the Drosophila ncd microtubule motor protein.

    R Chandra;E D Salmon;H P Erickson;A Lockhart

  • A new kinesin tree

    Elise M. Dagenbach;Sharyn A. Endow

  • Spindle Dynamics during Meiosis in Drosophila Oocytes

    Sharyn A. Endow;Donald J. Komma

  • Mutants of the Drosophila ncd microtubule motor protein cause centrosomal and spindle pole defects in mitosis

    Sharyn A. Endow;Rashmi Chandra;Donald J. Komma;Akihiko H. Yamamoto

  • Mutants of the microtubule motor protein, nonclaret disjunctional, affect spindle structure and chromosome movement in meiosis and mitosis.

    M. Hatsumi;S.A. Endow

  • In vitro motility of AtKCBP, a calmodulin-binding kinesin protein of Arabidopsis

    Hebok Song;Maxim Golovkin;A. S. N. Reddy;Sharyn A. Endow

  • Microtubule motors in spindle and chromosome motility.

    Sharyn A. Endow

  • A kinesin family tree

    Alison J. Kim;Sharyn A. Endow

  • A structural pathway for activation of the kinesin motor ATPase.

    Mikyung Yun;Xiaohua Zhang;Cheon-Gil Park;Hee-Won Park;Hee-Won Park

  • Differential replication of ribosomal gene repeats in polytene nuclei of drosophila

    Sharyn A. Endow;David M. Glover

  • Centrosome and spindle function of the Drosophila Ncd microtubule motor visualized in live embryos using Ncd-GFP fusion proteins

    Sharyn A. Endow;Donald J. Komma

  • Determinants of molecular motor directionality.

    Sharyn A. Endow

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda A. Amos
Linda A. Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Edward D. Salmon
Edward D. Salmon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Robinson
Robert Robinson Okayama University
David M. Glover
David M. Glover California Institute of Technology
Anireddy S. N. Reddy
Anireddy S. N. Reddy Colorado State University
Steven Henikoff
Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Wanjin Hong
Wanjin Hong Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Cayetano Gonzalez
Cayetano Gonzalez Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Rudi Appels
Rudi Appels University of Melbourne
Joseph G. Gall
Joseph G. Gall Carnegie Institution for Science

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