Colleen T. Skau, Ph.D.

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2011 Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 
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Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics
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David Richard Kovar grad student 2011 Chicago
 (Actin binding proteins play multiple roles for diverse cellular processes in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.)
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Skau CT, Fischer RS, Gurel P, et al. (2018) Retraction Notice to: FMN2 Makes Perinuclear Actin to Protect Nuclei during Confined Migration and Promote Metastasis. Cell. 173: 529
Skau CT, Fischer RS, Gurel P, et al. (2016) FMN2 Makes Perinuclear Actin to Protect Nuclei during Confined Migration and Promote Metastasis. Cell
Skau CT, Waterman CM. (2015) Specification of Architecture and Function of Actin Structures by Actin Nucleation Factors. Annual Review of Biophysics. 44: 285-310
Skau CT, Plotnikov SV, Doyle AD, et al. (2015) Inverted formin 2 in focal adhesions promotes dorsal stress fiber and fibrillar adhesion formation to drive extracellular matrix assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: E2447-56
Skau CT, Courson DS, Bestul AJ, et al. (2011) Actin filament bundling by fimbrin is important for endocytosis, cytokinesis, and polarization in fission yeast. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286: 26964-77
Wong W, Skau CT, Marapana DS, et al. (2011) Minimal requirements for actin filament disassembly revealed by structural analysis of malaria parasite actin-depolymerizing factor 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 9869-74
Haglund CM, Choe JE, Skau CT, et al. (2010) Rickettsia Sca2 is a bacterial formin-like mediator of actin-based motility. Nature Cell Biology. 12: 1057-63
Skau CT, Kovar DR. (2010) Fimbrin and tropomyosin competition regulates endocytosis and cytokinesis kinetics in fission yeast. Current Biology : Cb. 20: 1415-22
Rizvi SA, Liu S, Chen Z, et al. (2010) Rationally simplified bistramide analog reversibly targets actin polymerization and inhibits cancer progression in vitro and in vivo. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132: 7288-90
Rizvi SA, Neidt EM, Cui J, et al. (2009) Identification and characterization of a small molecule inhibitor of formin-mediated actin assembly. Chemistry & Biology. 16: 1158-68
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