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  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,194 Views
45 Pages

Non-Muscle Myosin II A: Friend or Foe in Cancer?

  • Wasim Feroz,
  • Briley SoYoung Park,
  • Meghna Siripurapu,
  • Nicole Ntim,
  • Mary Kate Kilroy,
  • Arwah Mohammad Ali Sheikh,
  • Rosalin Mishra and
  • Joan T. Garrett

30 August 2024

Non-muscle myosin IIA (NM IIA) is a motor protein that belongs to the myosin II family. The myosin heavy chain 9 (MYH9) gene encodes the heavy chain of NM IIA. NM IIA is a hexamer and contains three pairs of peptides, which include the dimer of heavy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,417 Views
21 Pages

MRIP Regulates the Myosin IIA Activity and DDR1 Function to Enable Collagen Tractional Remodeling

  • Nuno M. Coelho,
  • Andrew Wang,
  • Petar Petrovic,
  • Yongqiang Wang,
  • Wilson Lee and
  • Christopher A. McCulloch

11 July 2020

DDR1 is a collagen adhesion-mechanoreceptor expressed in fibrotic lesions. DDR1 mediates non-muscle myosin IIA (NMIIA)-dependent collagen remodeling. We discovered that the myosin phosphatase Rho-interacting protein (MRIP), is enriched in DDR1-NMIIA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,766 Views
14 Pages

Clinicopathological Significance of NMIIA Overexpression in Human Gastric Cancer

  • Dongning Liu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Zhiyong Shen,
  • Fei Tan,
  • Yanfeng Hu,
  • Jiang Yu and
  • Guoxin Li

19 November 2012

Altered expressions of nonmuscle myosin IIA (NMIIA) have been observed in certain types of cancers, but the impact of the alterations in gastric cancer (GC) remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the expression of NMIIA at the mRN...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,415 Views
15 Pages

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most prevalent type of hematopoietic malignancy. Despite recent therapeutic advancements, the high relapse rate associated with extramedullary involvement remains a challenging issue. Moreover, therapeutic targets...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,321 Views
13 Pages

Myofibroblasts are contractile cells found in multiple tissues. They are physiological cells as in the human placenta and can be obtained from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells after differentiation by transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β). They are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,050 Views
14 Pages

Statistical Mechanics of Non-Muscle Myosin IIA in Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Seeded in a Collagen Scaffold: A Thermodynamic Near-Equilibrium Linear System Modified by the Tripeptide Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD)

  • Yves Lecarpentier,
  • Vincent Kindler,
  • Xénophon Krokidis,
  • Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat,
  • Victor Claes,
  • Jean-Louis Hébert,
  • Alexandre Vallée and
  • Olivier Schussler

21 June 2020

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) were obtained from human bone marrow and amplified in cultures supplemented with human platelet lysate. Once semi-confluent, cells were seeded in solid collagen scaffolds that were rapidly colonized by the cells gener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
22 Pages

18 September 2025

Duck enteritis virus (DEV) is responsible for duck viral enteritis, a contagious and lethal disease in waterfowls. The host proteins targeted by DEV are unknown. In this study, we developed a recombinant DEV rVP26-Flag and identified 17 host proteins...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,615 Views
15 Pages

Myh9 Plays an Essential Role in the Survival and Maintenance of Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells

  • Quanming An,
  • Yong Dong,
  • Yang Cao,
  • Xu Pan,
  • Yuan Xue,
  • Ya Zhou,
  • Yonggang Zhang and
  • Feng Ma

7 June 2022

Myosin heavy chain 9 (MYH9) gene encodes a protein named non-muscle heavy chain IIA (NMHC IIA), interacting with actin and participating in various biological processes. Mutations in MYH9 cause an array of autosomal dominant disorders, known as MYH9-...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
10,288 Views
21 Pages

12 June 2020

The MYH9 gene encodes the heavy chain (MHCII) of non-muscle myosin II A (NMII-A). This is an actin-binding molecular motor essential for development that participates in many crucial cellular processes such as adhesion, cell migration, cytokinesis an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,335 Views
21 Pages

The Role of the C-Terminal Lysine of S100P in S100P-Induced Cell Migration and Metastasis

  • Thamir M. Ismail,
  • Stephane R. Gross,
  • Tara Lancaster,
  • Philip S. Rudland and
  • Roger Barraclough

6 October 2021

S100P protein is a potent inducer of metastasis in a model system, and its presence in cancer cells of patients is strongly associated with their reduced survival times. A well-established Furth Wistar rat metastasis model system, methods for measuri...