Rutgers University Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Publications for Dr. Shigeko Yamashiro



Matsumura, F., Lin, J.J.C., Yamashiro-Matsumura, S., Thomas, G. P., and Topp, W.C. (l983).
Differential expression of tropomyosin forms in the microfilaments isolated from normal and transformed rat cultured cell lines.
J. Biol. Chem. 258, 13954-13964

Lin, J.J.-C., Matsumura, F., and Yamashiro-Matsumura, S. (l984).
Tropomyosin-enriched and alpha-actinin-enriched microfilaments isolated from chick embryo fibroblasts by monoclonal antibodies.
J. Cell Biol. 98, 116-127

Yamashiro-Matsumura, S. and Matsumura, F. (l985).
Purification and characterization of actin-bundling 55 kilodalton protein from HeLa cells.
J. Biol. Chem. 260, 5087-5097

Matsumura, F. and Yamashiro-Matsumura, S. (1985).
Purification and characterization of multiple forms of tropomyosin from rat cultured cells.
J. Biol. Chem., 260, 13851-13859

Matsumura, F. and Yamashiro-Matsumura, S. (l986).
Modulation of actin-bundling activity of 55-kilodalton protein by multiple isoforms of tropomyosin.
J. Biol. Chem. 261, 4655-4659.

Yamashiro-Matsumura, S. and Matsumura, F.
Intracellular localization of 55kDa actin-bundling protein in cultured cells: Spatial relationships with actin, alpha-actinin, tropomyosin, and fimbrin.
J. Cell Biol. 103, 631-640

Yamashiro-Matsumura, S. and Matsumura, F. (l988).
Characterization of 83kDa nonmuscle caldesmon from cultured rat cells: Stimulation of actin binding of nonmuscle tropomyosin and periodic localization along microfilaments like tropomyosin.
J. Cell Biol. 106, 1973-1983.

Yamashiro-Matsumura, S. and Matsumura, F. (1988).
Purification and characterization of 83kDa nonmuscle caldesmon from cultured rat cells.
Protoplasma, Suppl. 2, 9-21.

Ishikawa, R., Yamashiro, S. and Matsumura, F. (l989).
Differential modulation of actin-severing activity of gelsolin by multiple isoforms of cultured rat cell tropomyosin: potentiation of protective ability of tropomyosins by 83kDa nonmuscle caldesmon.
J. Biol. Chem. 264, 7490-7497

Ishikawa, R., Yamashiro, S. and Matsumura, F. (1989).
Reannealing of gelsolin-severed short actin filaments by tropomyosin in the presence of Ca2+: potentiation of the reannealing process by caldesmon.
J. Biol. Chem. 264, 16764-16770

Yamashiro, S. Yamakita Y., Ishikawa, R., and Matsumura, F. (1990).
Mitosis-specific phosphorylation causes 83kDa nonmuscle caldesmon to dissociate from microfilaments.
Nature 344, 675-678

Yamakita, Y,. Yamashiro, S., and Matsumura, F. (1990).
Microinjection of nonmuscle and smooth muscle caldesmons into living fibroblasts and myoblasts.
Journal of Cell Biology 111, 2487-2498

Yamashiro, S. and Yamakita, Y., Hosoya, H., and Matsumura F. (1991).
Phosphorylation of nonmuscle caldesmon by p34cdc2 kinase during mitosis.
Nature 349, 169-172

Hosoya, H., Yamashiro, S., and Matsumura, F. (1991).
Mitosis-specific phosphorylation of myosin light chain kinase.
J. Biol. Chem. 266, 22173-22178

Yamakita, Y., Yamashiro, S., and Matsumura, F. (1992).
Characterization of mitotically phosphorylated caldesmon.
J. Biol. Chem. 267, 12022-12029

Hosoya, N., Hosoya, H., Yamashiro, S., Mohri, H., and Matsumura, F. (1993).
Localization of caldesmon and its dephosphorylation during cell division.
J. Cell Biol. 121, 1075-1082

Matsumura, F. and Yamashiro, S. (1993).
Caldesmon.
Current Opininon in Cell Biology 5, 70-76

Yamakita, Y., Yamashiro, S. and Matsumura, F. (1994).
In vovo phosphorylation of regulatory light chain of myosin II during mitosis of cultured cells.
J. Cell Biol. 124, 129-137

Yamashiro, S., Yoshida, K., Yamakita, Y., and Matsumura, F. (1994).
Caldesmon: Possible functions in microfilament re-oranization during mitosis and cell transformation.
In Acin: Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Cell Biology (J.E. Estes and P. J. Higgins) Plenum Press, New York. pp113-122

Mosialos, G., Yamashiro, S., Baughman, R.W., Matsudaira, P., Vara, L., Matsumura, F., Kieff, E., and Birkenbach, M. (1994).
Epstein-Barr virus infection induces expression in B lymphocytes of a novel gene encoding an evolutionary conserved 55-kD actin-bundling protein.
J. Virology 68, 7320-7328

Yamashiro, S., Yamakita, Y., Hong, K. Takiguchi, K. and Matsumura, F. (1995).
Characterization of the C-terminus of caldesmon lacking mitosis-specific phosphorylation sites.
J. Biol. Chem. 270 4023-4030

Yamakita, Y., Ono, S., Matsumura, F., and Yamashiro, S. (1996).
Phosphorylation of human fascin inhibit its actin-binding and -bundling activities.
J. Biol. Chem. 271: 12632-12638

Ono, S., Yamakita, S., S. Yamashiro, P. T. Matsudaira, J. R. Gnarra, T. Obinata, and Matsumura, F. (1997).
Identification of an Actin Binding Region and a PKC Phosphorylation Site on Human Fascin.
J. Biol. Chem. 272:2527-2533

Pinkus, G. S., Pinkus, J. L., Langhoff, E., Matsumura, F., Yamashiro, S., Mosialos, G., and Said, J. W. (1997).
Fascin: A sensitive new marker for Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin’s Disease - Evidence for a dendritic or B cell derivation?
American J. Pathology. 150: 543-562

Said, J. W. Pinkus, J. L. Yamashita, J. Mishalani, S. Matsumura, F. Yamashiro, S. and Pinkus, G. S. (1997).
The role of follicular and interdigitating dendritic cells in HIV- related lymphoid hyperplasia: localization of fascin.
Mod Pathol 10: 421-427.

Matsumura, F., Ono, S., Yamakita, Y., Totsukawa, G., and Yamashiro, S. (1998).
Specific localization of serine 19 phosphorylated myosin II during cell locomotion and mitosis of cultured cells.
J. Cell Biol. 140: 119-129.

Yamashiro, S., Yamakita, Y., Ono, S., and Matsumura, F. (1998).
Fascin, an actin-bundling protein, induces membrane protrusions, and increases cell motility of epithelial cells.
Mol. Biol. Cell 9:993-1006.

Ishikawa, R., Yamashiro, S., Kohama, K., and Matsumura, F. (1998).
Regulation of Actin-binding and &endash;bundling activities of fascin by Caldesmon coupled with tropomyosin.
J. Biol. Chem. 273:26991-26997.

Y. Yamakita, G. Totsukawa, S. Yamashiro, D.d Fry2, S. K. Hanks and F. Matsumura (1999).
Dissociation of FAK/P130CAS/C-Src complex during mitosis; Role of mitosis-specific serine phosphorylation of FAK.
J. Cell Biol. 144: 315-324.

Totsukawa, G., Yamakita, Y., Yamashiro, S., Hosoys, H., Hartshorne, D. H., and Matsumura, F. (1999).
Activation of myosin phosphatase targeting subunit by mitosis-specific phosphorylation.
J. Cell Biol. 144:735-744.

Adams, J.C., Clelland, J.D., Collet, G. D.M., Matsumura, F., Yamashiro, and S., Zhang, L. (1999).
Cell-matrix adhesions differentially regulate fascin phosphorylation.
Mol Biol Cell Dec;10:4177-90.

Ross, R., Jonuleit, H., Ross, X.L., Yamashiro, S., Matsumura, F., Enk, S., Knop, J. and Reske-Kunz, A.B.
Expression of the actin-bundling protein fascin in cultured human dendritic cells correlates with dendritic morphology and cell differentiation.
Submitted.

Takiguchi, K. Yamashiro, S., and Matsumura F. (2000).
Artificial phosphorylation removes Gelsolin's dependence on calcium.
Cell Struct Funct. ;25:57-65.

Totsukawa, G., Yamakita, Y., Yamashiro, Y., Hartshorne, D.H., Sasaki, Y., and Matsumura F. (2000).
Distinct Roles of ROCK (Rho-kinase) and MLCK in Spatial Regulation of MLC Phosphorylation for Assembly of Stress Fibers and Focal Adhesions in 3T3 Fibroblasts.
J. Cell. Biol. 150:797-806.

Yamashiro, S., Chern, H-L, Yamakita, Y., and Matsumura, F.
Caldesmon mutant lacking cdc2 phosphorylation sites inhibits cell cycle progression.
Submitted.