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Kristen Skruber

University of California, San Francisco
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Reconsidering an active role for G-actin in cytoskeletal regulation

K Skruber, TA Read, EA Vitriol - Journal of cell science, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Globular (G)-actin, the actin monomer, assembles into polarized filaments that form networks
that can provide structural support, generate force and organize the cell. Many of these …

[PDF][PDF] Arp2/3 and Mena/VASP require profilin 1 for actin network assembly at the leading edge

K Skruber, PV Warp, R Shklyarov, JD Thomas… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
… (K) Line scan analysis of ARPC2 fluorescence intensity at the leading edge of cells depicted
in (J). The transparent bands depict 95% confidence intervals. For all conditions, n = 400 …

[HTML][HTML] ATP13A3 and caveolin-1 as potential biomarkers for difluoromethylornithine-based therapies in pancreatic cancers

M Madan, A Patel, K Skruber, D Geerts… - American journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The Ras signaling pathway was of interest for our study because K-Ras-activating
oncogenic mutations causing uncontrolled cell growth are found in the vast majority (> 90%) of …

[PDF][PDF] ALS-linked SOD1 mutants enhance neurite outgrowth and branching in adult motor neurons

Z Osking, JI Ayers, R Hildebrandt, K Skruber, H Brown… - Iscience, 2019 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease
characterized by motor neuron cell death. However, not all motor neurons are equally susceptible. …

Motuporamine Derivatives as Antimicrobial Agents and Antibiotic Enhancers against Resistant Gram‐Negative Bacteria

…, M Blanchet, JM Bolla, A Muth, K Skruber… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… aerogenes EA289, a Kan derivative of the MDR clinical isolate Ea27,30 and K. pneumoniae
KPC2 ST258) were stored at −80 C in glycerol (15 %, v/v). Bacteria were grown in Mueller–…

[HTML][HTML] The actin binding protein profilin 1 is critical for mitochondria function

TA Read, BA Cisterna, K Skruber, S Ahmadieh… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Proteinase K treatment alone removes the outer … One fraction was treated with Proteinase
K to digest all the proteins … the mitochondria prior to Proteinase K treatment, allowing the …

Synthesis and bioevaluation of macrocycle–polyamine conjugates as cell migration inhibitors

K Skruber, KJ Chaplin… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
… The known K-Ras mutation present in this cell line has been shown to correlate with high
polyamine uptake due to its ability to affect caveolin-mediated endocytosis, (25) which leads to …

[PDF][PDF] TDAExplore: Quantitative analysis of fluorescence microscopy images through topology-based machine learning

P Edwards, K Skruber, N Milićević, JB Heidings… - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
Recent advances in machine learning have greatly enhanced automatic methods to extract
information from fluorescence microscopy data. However, current machine-learning-based …

[HTML][HTML] Cytoskeletal adaptation following long-term dysregulation of actomyosin in neuronal processes

BA Cisterna, K Skruber, ML Jane, CI Camesi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
K), with PFN1 KO mitochondria exhibiting increased velocities and run lengths (Fig. 2K).
Similar results were obtained in experiments measuring the mobility of lysosomes (Fig. …

[HTML][HTML] Delivering defined amounts of purified protein with high precision into living cells

K Skruber, TA Read, EA Vitriol - STAR protocols, 2021 - Elsevier
Here, we detail a protocol using electroporation to precisely deliver defined amounts of
purified protein into CAD cells. This method allows one million cells to be electroporated with …