Bill Brieher Bill is currently a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

Email: wbrieher * uiuc.edu Webpage: http://www.mcb.uiuc.edu/faculty/profile/136856

Publications Kueh HY, Brieher WM, Mitchison TJ. Dynamic stabilization of actin filaments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Oct 28;105(43):16531-6. Epub 2008 Oct 17. PubMed Kueh HY, Charras GT, Mitchison TJ, Brieher WM. Actin disassembly by cofilin, coronin, and Aip1 occurs in bursts and is inhibited by barbed-end cappers. J Cell Biol. 2008 Jul 28;182(2):341-53. PubMed Bendix PM, Koenderink GH, Cuvelier D, Dogic Z, Koeleman BN, Brieher WM, Field CM, Mahadevan L, Weitz DA. A quantitative analysis of contractility in active cytoskeletal protein networks. Biophys J. 2008 Apr 15;94(8):3126-36. Epub 2008 Jan 11. PubMed Galkin VE, Orlova A, Brieher W, Kueh HY, Mitchison TJ, Egelman EH. Coronin-1A Stabilizes F-Actin by Bridging Adjacent Actin Protomers and Stapling Opposite Strands of the Actin Filament. J Mol Biol. 2007 Dec 8; PubMed Coughlin M, Brieher WM, Ohi R. Cell-free extract systems and the cytoskeleton: preparation of biochemical experiments for transmission electron microscopy. Methods Mol Biol. 2007;369:199-212. PubMed Li J, Brieher WM, Scimone ML, Kang SJ, Zhu H, Yin H, von Andrian UH, Mitchison T, Yuan J. Caspase-11 regulates cell migration by promoting Aip1-Cofilin-mediated actin depolymerization. Nat Cell Biol. 2007 Feb 11; [Epub ahead of print] PubMed Brieher WM, Kueh HY, Ballif BA, Mitchison TJ. Rapid actin monomer-insensitive depolymerization of Listeria actin comet tails by cofilin, coronin, and Aip1. J Cell Biol. 2006 Oct 23;175(2):315-24. PubMed Brieher WM, Coughlin M, Mitchison TJ. Fascin-mediated propulsion of Listeria monocytogenes independent of frequent nucleation by the Arp2/3 complex. J Cell Biol. 2004 Apr 26;165(2):233-42. PubMed Full Text Zhong Y, Brieher WM, Gumbiner BM. Analysis of C-cadherin regulation during tissue morphogenesis with an activating antibody. J Cell Biol. 1999 Jan 25;144(2):351-9. PubMed Yap AS, Brieher WM, Gumbiner BM. Molecular and functional analysis of cadherin-based adherens junctions. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 1997;13:119-46. PubMed Yap AS, Brieher WM, Pruschy M, Gumbiner BM. Lateral clustering of the adhesive ectodomain: a fundamental determinant of cadherin function. Curr Biol. 1997 May 1;7(5):308-15. PubMed Brieher WM, Yap AS, Gumbiner BM. Lateral dimerization is required for the homophilic binding activity of C-cadherin. J Cell Biol. 1996 Oct;135(2):487-96. PubMed McCrea PD, Brieher WM, Gumbiner BM. Induction of a secondary body axis in Xenopus by antibodies to beta-catenin. J Cell Biol. 1993 Oct;123(2):477-84. PubMed Brieher WM, Gumbiner BM. Regulation of C-cadherin function during activin induced morphogenesis of Xenopus animal caps. J Cell Biol. 1994 Jul;126(2):519-27. PubMed