John C. Sparrow - Publications

Affiliations: 
Biology University of York, York, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
muscle
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http://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/biochemistry-biophysics/john-sparrow/

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2017 Madan A, Thimmaiya D, Franco-Cea A, Aiyaz M, Kumar P, Sparrow JC, Nongthomba U. Transcriptome analysis of IFM-specific actin and myosin nulls in Drosophila melanogaster unravels lesion-specific expression blueprints across muscle mutations. Gene. PMID 28739398 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2017.07.061  0.477
2015 Katzemich A, West RJ, Fukuzawa A, Sweeney ST, Gautel M, Sparrow J, Bullard B. Binding partners of the kinase domains in Drosophila obscurin and their effect on the structure of the flight muscle. Journal of Cell Science. 128: 3386-97. PMID 26251439 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.170639  0.377
2015 Orfanos Z, Leonard K, Elliott C, Katzemich A, Bullard B, Sparrow J. Sallimus and the dynamics of sarcomere assembly in Drosophila flight muscles. Journal of Molecular Biology. 427: 2151-8. PMID 25868382 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.04.003  0.455
2015 Katzemich A, Leonard K, Sweeney S, Sparrow J, Bullard B. The M-Line Protein Obscurin in the Development of Insect Flight Muscle Biophysical Journal. 108: 590a. DOI: 10.1016/J.BPJ.2014.11.3214  0.387
2014 Molnár I, Migh E, Szikora S, Kalmár T, Végh AG, Deák F, Barkó S, Bugyi B, Orfanos Z, Kovács J, Juhász G, Váró G, Nyitrai M, Sparrow J, Mihály J. DAAM is required for thin filament formation and Sarcomerogenesis during muscle development in Drosophila. Plos Genetics. 10: e1004166. PMID 24586196 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004166  0.476
2013 Sevdali M, Kumar V, Peckham M, Sparrow J. Human congenital myopathy actin mutants cause myopathy and alter Z-disc structure in Drosophila flight muscle. Neuromuscular Disorders : Nmd. 23: 243-55. PMID 23294764 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2012.11.013  0.507
2013 Orfanos Z, Sparrow JC. Myosin isoform switching during assembly of the Drosophila flight muscle thick filament lattice. Journal of Cell Science. 126: 139-48. PMID 23178940 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.110361  0.469
2013 Katzemich A, Elliott C, Leonard K, Sweeney S, Sparrow J, Bullard B. The M-Line Protein Obscurin in the early Development of Drosophila Flight Muscle Biophysical Journal. 104: 485a. DOI: 10.1016/J.BPJ.2012.11.2677  0.416
2012 Katzemich A, Kreisköther N, Alexandrovich A, Elliott C, Schöck F, Leonard K, Sparrow J, Bullard B. The function of the M-line protein obscurin in controlling the symmetry of the sarcomere in the flight muscle of Drosophila. Journal of Cell Science. 125: 3367-79. PMID 22467859 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.097345  0.452
2012 Jain RK, Jayawant S, Squier W, Muntoni F, Sewry CA, Manzur A, Quinlivan R, Lillis S, Jungbluth H, Sparrow JC, Ravenscroft G, Nowak KJ, Memo M, Marston SB, Laing NG. Nemaline myopathy with stiffness and hypertonia associated with an ACTA1 mutation. Neurology. 78: 1100-3. PMID 22442437 DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31824e8ebe  0.428
2012 Salvi SS, Kumar RP, Ramachandra NB, Sparrow JC, Nongthomba U. Mutations in Drosophila myosin rod cause defects in myofibril assembly. Journal of Molecular Biology. 419: 22-40. PMID 22370558 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.02.025  0.491
2012 Elliott CJ, Sparrow JC. In vivo measurement of muscle output in intact Drosophila. Methods (San Diego, Calif.). 56: 78-86. PMID 22037247 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2011.10.005  0.442
2011 Katzemich AR, Leonard KR, Sparrow JC, Bullard B. The Function of Obscurin in Regulating Assembly and Symmetry of the Sarcomere in Drosophila Flight Muscle Biophysical Journal. 100: 587a. DOI: 10.1016/J.BPJ.2010.12.3389  0.435
2010 Vikhorev PG, Vikhoreva NN, Cammarato A, Sparrow JC. In vitro motility of native thin filaments from Drosophila indirect flight muscles reveals that the held-up 2 TnI mutation affects calcium activation. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 31: 171-9. PMID 20658179 DOI: 10.1007/S10974-010-9221-X  0.477
2010 Stenzel W, Prokop S, Kress W, Huppmann S, Loui A, Sarioglu NM, Laing NG, Sparrow JC, Heppner FL, Goebel HH. Fetal akinesia caused by a novel actin filament aggregate myopathy skeletal muscle actin gene (ACTA1) mutation. Neuromuscular Disorders : Nmd. 20: 531-3. PMID 20621480 DOI: 10.1016/J.Nmd.2010.06.008  0.477
2010 Haigh SE, Salvi SS, Sevdali M, Stark M, Goulding D, Clayton JD, Bullard B, Sparrow JC, Nongthomba U. Drosophila indirect flight muscle specific Act88F actin mutants as a model system for studying congenital myopathies of the human ACTA1 skeletal muscle actin gene. Neuromuscular Disorders : Nmd. 20: 363-74. PMID 20452215 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2010.03.008  0.512
2009 Laing NG, Dye DE, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Richard G, Monnier N, Lillis S, Winder TL, Lochmüller H, Graziano C, Mitrani-Rosenbaum S, Twomey D, Sparrow JC, Beggs AH, Nowak KJ. Mutations and polymorphisms of the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene (ACTA1). Human Mutation. 30: 1267-77. PMID 19562689 DOI: 10.1002/Humu.21059  0.453
2009 Sparrow JC, Schöck F. The initial steps of myofibril assembly: integrins pave the way. Nature Reviews. Molecular Cell Biology. 10: 293-8. PMID 19190670 DOI: 10.1038/nrm2634  0.336
2009 Katzemich A, Sparrow J, Bullard B. Obscurin, A Large Modular Protein, Regulating Sarcomere Formation In Drosophila Muscle Biophysical Journal. 96: 201a-202a. DOI: 10.1016/J.BPJ.2008.12.1083  0.451
2008 Sparrow J, Hughes SM, Segalat L. Other model organisms for sarcomeric muscle diseases. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 642: 192-206. PMID 19181102 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-84847-1_14  0.397
2008 Harvey J, Brunger H, Middleton CA, Hill JA, Sevdali M, Sweeney ST, Sparrow JC, Elliott CJ. Neuromuscular control of a single twitch muscle in wild type and mutant Drosophila, measured with an ergometer. Invertebrate Neuroscience : In. 8: 63-70. PMID 18443837 DOI: 10.1007/s10158-008-0070-x  0.455
2007 Elliott CJ, Brunger HL, Stark M, Sparrow JC. Direct measurement of the performance of the Drosophila jump muscle in whole flies. Fly. 1: 68-74. PMID 18820447 DOI: 10.4161/Fly.3979  0.488
2007 Domazetovska A, Ilkovski B, Kumar V, Valova VA, Vandebrouck A, Hutchinson DO, Robinson PJ, Cooper ST, Sparrow JC, Peckham M, North KN. Intranuclear rod myopathy: molecular pathogenesis and mechanisms of weakness. Annals of Neurology. 62: 597-608. PMID 17705262 DOI: 10.1002/Ana.21200  0.506
2007 Nongthomba U, Ansari M, Thimmaiya D, Stark M, Sparrow J. Aberrant splicing of an alternative exon in the Drosophila troponin-T gene affects flight muscle development. Genetics. 177: 295-306. PMID 17603127 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.056812  0.481
2006 Middleton CA, Nongthomba U, Parry K, Sweeney ST, Sparrow JC, Elliott CJ. Neuromuscular organization and aminergic modulation of contractions in the Drosophila ovary. Bmc Biology. 4: 17. PMID 16768790 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-4-17  0.42
2006 Mateos J, Herranz R, Domingo A, Sparrow J, Marco R. The structural role of high molecular weight tropomyosins in dipteran indirect flight muscle and the effect of phosphorylation. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 27: 189-201. PMID 16752200 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-005-9044-3  0.371
2005 Cammarato A, Craig R, Sparrow JC, Lehman W. E93K charge reversal on actin perturbs steric regulation of thin filaments. Journal of Molecular Biology. 347: 889-94. PMID 15784249 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2005.02.022  0.387
2004 Laing NG, Clarke NF, Dye DE, Liyanage K, Walker KR, Kobayashi Y, Shimakawa S, Hagiwara T, Ouvrier R, Sparrow JC, Nishino I, North KN, Nonaka I. Actin mutations are one cause of congenital fibre type disproportion. Annals of Neurology. 56: 689-94. PMID 15468086 DOI: 10.1002/Ana.20260  0.402
2004 Zumstein N, Forman O, Nongthomba U, Sparrow JC, Elliott CJ. Distance and force production during jumping in wild-type and mutant Drosophila melanogaster. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 207: 3515-22. PMID 15339947 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01181  0.308
2004 Burgess S, Walker M, Knight PJ, Sparrow J, Schmitz S, Offer G, Bullard B, Leonard K, Holt J, Trinick J. Structural studies of arthrin: monoubiquitinated actin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 341: 1161-73. PMID 15321713 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2004.06.077  0.39
2004 Nongthomba U, Clark S, Cummins M, Ansari M, Stark M, Sparrow JC. Troponin I is required for myofibrillogenesis and sarcomere formation in Drosophila flight muscle. Journal of Cell Science. 117: 1795-805. PMID 15075240 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01024  0.509
2004 Cammarato A, Hatch V, Saide J, Craig R, Sparrow JC, Tobacman LS, Lehman W. Drosophila muscle regulation characterized by electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction of thin filament mutants. Biophysical Journal. 86: 1618-24. PMID 14990488 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74229-0  0.469
2003 Silva R, Sparrow JC, Geeves MA. Isolation and kinetic characterisation of myosin and myosin S1 from the Drosophila indirect flight muscles. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 24: 489-98. PMID 14870964 DOI: 10.1023/B:Jure.0000009809.69829.74  0.456
2003 Sparrow JC. Exploring actin five steps at a time. Structure (London, England : 1993). 11: 1196-7. PMID 14527387 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2003.09.012  0.347
2003 Schmitz S, Schankin CJ, Prinz H, Curwen RS, Ashton PD, Caves LS, Fink RH, Sparrow JC, Mayhew PJ, Veigel C. Molecular evolutionary convergence of the flight muscle protein arthrin in Diptera and hemiptera. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 20: 2019-33. PMID 12949144 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg212  0.407
2003 Sparrow JC, Nowak KJ, Durling HJ, Beggs AH, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Romero N, Nonaka I, Laing NG. Muscle disease caused by mutations in the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene (ACTA1). Neuromuscular Disorders : Nmd. 13: 519-31. PMID 12921789 DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8966(03)00101-9  0.437
2003 Nongthomba U, Cummins M, Clark S, Vigoreaux JO, Sparrow JC. Suppression of muscle hypercontraction by mutations in the myosin heavy chain gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 164: 209-22. PMID 12750333  0.356
2002 Rüegg C, Veigel C, Molloy JE, Schmitz S, Sparrow JC, Fink RH. Molecular motors: force and movement generated by single myosin II molecules. News in Physiological Sciences : An International Journal of Physiology Produced Jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society. 17: 213-8. PMID 12270959 DOI: 10.1152/Nips.01389.2002  0.312
2002 Wrobel LK, Fray TR, Molloy JE, Adams JJ, Armitage MP, Sparrow JC. Contractility of single human dermal myofibroblasts and fibroblasts. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. 52: 82-90. PMID 12112150 DOI: 10.1002/cm.10034  0.322
2001 Lovato TL, Meadows SM, Baker PW, Sparrow JC, Cripps RM. Characterization of muscle actin genes in Drosophila virilis reveals significant molecular complexity in skeletal muscle types. Insect Molecular Biology. 10: 333-40. PMID 11520356 DOI: 10.1046/J.0962-1075.2001.00270.X  0.457
2001 Nongthomba U, Pasalodos-Sanchez S, Clark S, Clayton JD, Sparrow JC. Expression and function of the Drosophila ACT88F actin isoform is not restricted to the indirect flight muscles. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 22: 111-9. PMID 11519734 DOI: 10.1023/A:1010308326890  0.466
2001 Naimi B, Harrison A, Cummins M, Nongthomba U, Clark S, Canal I, Ferrus A, Sparrow JC. A tropomyosin-2 mutation suppresses a troponin I myopathy in Drosophila. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12: 1529-39. PMID 11359941 DOI: 10.1091/Mbc.12.5.1529  0.408
2001 Swank DM, Bartoo ML, Knowles AF, Iliffe C, Bernstein SI, Molloy JE, Sparrow JC. Alternative exon-encoded regions of Drosophila myosin heavy chain modulate ATPase rates and actin sliding velocity. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276: 15117-24. PMID 11134017 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M008379200  0.482
2000 Schmitz S, Clayton J, Nongthomba U, Prinz H, Veigel C, Geeves M, Sparrow J. Drosophila ACT88F indirect flight muscle-specific actin is not N-terminally acetylated: a mutation in N-terminal processing affects actin function. Journal of Molecular Biology. 295: 1201-10. PMID 10653697 DOI: 10.1006/Jmbi.1999.3407  0.396
1999 Razzaq A, Schmitz S, Veigel C, Molloy JE, Geeves MA, Sparrow JC. Actin residue glu(93) is identified as an amino acid affecting myosin binding. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274: 28321-8. PMID 10497190 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.274.40.28321  0.434
1999 Veigel C, Coluccio LM, Jontes JD, Sparrow JC, Milligan RA, Molloy JE. The motor protein myosin-I produces its working stroke in two steps. Nature. 398: 530-3. PMID 10206648 DOI: 10.1038/19104  0.376
1998 Veigel C, Bartoo ML, White DC, Sparrow JC, Molloy JE. The stiffness of rabbit skeletal actomyosin cross-bridges determined with an optical tweezers transducer. Biophysical Journal. 75: 1424-38. PMID 9726944 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)74061-5  0.31
1998 Clayton JD, Cripps RM, Sparrow JC, Bullard B. Interaction of troponin-H and glutathione S-transferase-2 in the indirect flight muscles of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 19: 117-27. PMID 9536439 DOI: 10.1023/A:1005304527563  0.434
1997 Mounier N, Sparrow JC. Structural comparisons of muscle and nonmuscle actins give insights into the evolution of their functional differences. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 44: 89-97. PMID 9010140 DOI: 10.1007/PL00006125  0.484
1995 Kronert WA, O'Donnell PT, Fieck A, Lawn A, Vigoreaux JO, Sparrow JC, Bernstein SI. Defects in the Drosophila myosin rod permit sarcomere assembly but cause flight muscle degeneration. Journal of Molecular Biology. 249: 111-25. PMID 7776366 DOI: 10.1006/Jmbi.1995.0283  0.491
1995 Sparrow JC. Muscle. Flight and phosphorylation. Nature. 374: 592-3. PMID 7715694 DOI: 10.1038/374592a0  0.402
1995 Anson M, Drummond DR, Geeves MA, Hennessey ES, Ritchie MD, Sparrow JC. Actomyosin kinetics and in vitro motility of wild-type Drosophila actin and the effects of two mutations in the Act88F gene. Biophysical Journal. 68: 1991-2003. PMID 7612841 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(95)80376-0  0.35
1994 Boey W, Huang W, Bennetts B, Sparrow J, Remedios CD, Hambly B. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer within the regulatory light chain of myosin Febs Journal. 219: 603-610. PMID 8307025 DOI: 10.1111/J.1432-1033.1994.Tb19976.X  0.38
1994 Cripps RM, Ball E, Stark M, Lawn A, Sparrow JC. Recovery of dominant, autosomal flightless mutants of Drosophila melanogaster and identification of a new gene required for normal muscle structure and function. Genetics. 137: 151-64. PMID 8056306  0.409
1993 Just I, Hennessey ES, Drummond DR, Aktories K, Sparrow JC. ADP-ribosylation of Drosophila indirect-flight-muscle actin and arthrin by Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin and Clostridium perfringens iota toxin. The Biochemical Journal. 291: 409-12. PMID 8484722 DOI: 10.1042/Bj2910409  0.408
1993 Mounier N, Sparrow JC. Muscle actin genes in insects. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. B, Comparative Biochemistry. 105: 231-8. PMID 8359014  0.348
1992 Sparrow J, Reedy M, Ball E, Kyrtatas V, Molloy J, Durston J, Hennessey E, White D. Functional and ultrastructural effects of a missense mutation in the indirect flight muscle-specific actin gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Biology. 222: 963-82. PMID 1684824 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(91)90588-W  0.482
1992 Hennessey ES, Harrison A, Drummond DR, Sparrow JC. Mutant actin: a dead end? Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 13: 127-31. PMID 1597510 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01874149  0.382
1992 Cripps RM, Sparrow JC. Polymorphism in a Drosophila indirect flight muscle-specific tropomyosin isozyme does not affect flight ability. Biochemical Genetics. 30: 159-68. PMID 1590747 DOI: 10.1007/Bf02399706  0.392
1992 Drummond DR, Hennessey ES, Sparrow JC. The binding of mutant actins to profilin, ATP and DNase I. European Journal of Biochemistry / Febs. 209: 171-9. PMID 1396697 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17274.x  0.347
1991 Drummond DR, Hennessey ES, Sparrow JC. Stability of mutant actins. The Biochemical Journal. 274: 301-3. PMID 2001247 DOI: 10.1042/Bj2740301  0.353
1991 Sparrow J, Drummond D, Peckham M, Hennessey E, White D. Protein engineering and the study of muscle contraction in Drosophila flight muscles. Journal of Cell Science. Supplement. 14: 73-8. PMID 1909335 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.1991.Supplement_14.15  0.469
1991 Hennessey ES, Drummond DR, Sparrow JC. Post-translational processing of the amino terminus affects actin function. European Journal of Biochemistry / Febs. 197: 345-52. PMID 1902786 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb15917.x  0.375
1991 Drummond DR, Hennessey ES, Sparrow JC. Characterisation of missense mutations in the Act88F gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular & General Genetics : Mgg. 226: 70-80. PMID 1851957 DOI: 10.1007/BF00273589  0.483
1990 Drummond DR, Peckham M, Sparrow JC, White DC. Alteration in crossbridge kinetics caused by mutations in actin. Nature. 348: 440-2. PMID 2123302 DOI: 10.1038/348440a0  0.489
1990 Peckham M, Molloy JE, Sparrow JC, White DC. Physiological properties of the dorsal longitudinal flight muscle and the tergal depressor of the trochanter muscle of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 11: 203-15. PMID 2119393 DOI: 10.1007/BF01843574  0.437
1990 Peckham M, Drummond DR, Sparrow JC, White DCS. A single amino acid change in actin expressed in the flight muscles of Drosophila melanogaster decreases wing-beat frequency and affects flight muscle mechanics Journal of Physiology. 426: 41P.  0.325
1989 Cripps RM, Sparrow JC. Dominant flightless phenotype of thevestigial-Depilate deficiency ofDrosophila melanogaster Developmental Genetics. 10: 98-105. DOI: 10.1002/Dvg.1020100205  0.376
1988 Molloy JE, Kyrtatas V, Sparrow JC, White DCS. Kinetics of flight muscles from insects with different wingbeat frequencies Nature. 328: 449-451. DOI: 10.1038/328449A0  0.357
1987 Ball E, Karlik CC, Beall CJ, Saville DL, Sparrow JC, Bullard B, Fyrberg EA. Arthrin, a myofibrillar protein of insect flight muscle, is an actin-ubiquitin conjugate. Cell. 51: 221-8. PMID 2822254 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(87)90149-8  0.465
1985 Ball E, Ball SP, Sparrow JC. A mutation affecting larval muscle development in Drosophila melanogaster Developmental Genetics. 6: 77-92. DOI: 10.1002/Dvg.1020060202  0.434
1974 Sparrow JC, Wright TR. The selection for mutants in Drosophila melanogaster hypersensitive to alpha-methyl dopa, a dopa decarboxylase inhibitor. Molecular & General Genetics : Mgg. 130: 127-41. PMID 4209419 DOI: 10.1007/BF00269084  0.516
1973 Sherald AF, Sparrow JC, Wright TR. A spectrophotometric assay for Drosophila dopa decarboxylase. Analytical Biochemistry. 56: 300-5. PMID 4202982 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(73)90194-2  0.603
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