Gelfand Lab  
  at Northwestern University - Chicago, IL    
   

 
  Recent Publications
2007 • 2006 • 2005 • Before
 
       
• 2007 •  

Park M, Serpinskaya AS, Papalopulu N, and Gelfand VI
Rab32 regulates melanosome transport in Xenopus melanophores by protein kinase A recruitment.
Current Biology; 2007; 17: 2030-2034.

  
     
  Kural C, Serpinskaya AS, Chou Y-H, Goldman RD, Gelfand VI, Selvin PR
Tracking melanosomes inside a cell for studying molecular motors and their interaction.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A ;2007; 104:5378-82.		  
     
  Kim H, Ling S-C, Rogers GC, Kural C, Selvin PR, Rogers SL, and Gelfand VI
Microtubule binding by dynactin is required for microtubule organization but not cargo transport.
J. Cell Biol.2007; 176:641-51.		  
     
• 2006 •  
  Rice SE, Gelfand VI.
Paradigm lost: milton connects kinesin heavy chain to miro on mitochondria.
J Cell Biol. 2006 May 22;173(4):459-61.		  
     
  Minin AA, Kulik AV, Gyoeva FK, Li Y, Goshima G, Gelfand VI.
Regulation of mitochondria distribution by RhoA and formins.
J Cell Sci. 2006 Feb 15;119(Pt 4):659-70.		  
     
  Levi V, Serpinskaya AS, Gratton E, Gelfand V.
Organelle transport along microtubules in Xenopus melanophores: evidence for cooperation
between multiple motors.
Biophys J. 2006 Jan;90(1):318-27.		  
     
  Levi V, Gelfand VI, Serpinskaya AS, Gratton E.
Melanosomes transported by myosin-V in Xenopus melanophores perform slow 35 nm steps.
Biophys J. 2006 Jan;90(1):L07-9.		  
     
• 2005 •  
  Kural C, Kim H, Syed S, Goshima G, Gelfand VI, Selvin PR.
Kinesin and Dynein Move a Peroxisome in Vivo: A Tug-of-War or Coordinated Movement?
Science. 2005 Jun 3;308(5727):1469-72.		  
     
  Deacon SW, Nascimento A, Serpinskaya AS, Gelfand VI.
Regulation of bidirectional melanosome transport by organelle bound MAP kinase.
Curr Biol. 2005 Mar 8;15(5):459-63.		  
     
• Before •  
  Ling SC, Fahrner PS, Greenough WT, Gelfand VI.
Transport of Drosophila fragile X mental retardation protein-containing ribonucleoprotein granules by
kinesin-1 and cytoplasmic dynein.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Dec 14;101(50):17428-33.		  
     
  Nascimento AA, Roland JT, Gelfand VI.
Pigment cells: a model for the study of organelle transport.
Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2003;19:469-91.		  
     
  Reilein AR, Serpinskaya AS, Karcher RL, Dujardin DL, Vallee RB, Gelfand VI.
Differential regulation of dynein-driven melanosome movement.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2003 Sep 26;309(3):652-8.		  
     
  Deacon SW, Serpinskaya AS, Vaughan PS, Lopez Fanarraga M, Vernos I, Vaughan KT, Gelfand VI.
Dynactin is required for bidirectional organelle transport.
J Cell Biol. 2003 Feb 3;160(3):297-301.		  
     
  Zappacosta F, Huddleston MJ, Karcher RL, Gelfand VI, Carr SA, Annan RS.
Improved sensitivity for phosphopeptide mapping using capillary column HPLC and microionspray
mass spectrometry: comparative phosphorylation site mapping from gel-derived proteins.
Anal Chem. 2002 Jul 1;74(13):3221-31.		  
     
  Gross SP, Tuma MC, Deacon SW, Serpinskaya AS, Reilein AR, Gelfand VI.
Interactions and regulation of molecular motors in Xenopus melanophores.
J Cell Biol. 2002 Mar 4;156(5):855-65		  
     
  Karcher RL, Deacon SW, Gelfand VI.
Motor-cargo interactions: the key to transport specificity.
Trends Cell Biol. 2002 Jan;12(1):21-7. Review.		  
     
  Karcher RL, Roland JT, Zappacosta F, Huddleston MJ, Annan RS, Carr SA, Gelfand VI.
Cell cycle regulation of myosin-V by calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II.
Science. 2001 Aug 17;293(5533):1317-20.		  
     
  Deacon SW, Gelfand VI.
Of yeast, mice, and men. Rab proteins and organelle transport.
J Cell Biol. 2001 Feb 19;152(4):F21-4.		  
     
  Reilein AR, Rogers SL, Tuma MC, Gelfand VI.
Regulation of molecular motor proteins.
Int Rev Cytol. 2001;204:179-238. Review.		  
     
  Gelfand VI, Le Bot N, Tuma MC, Vernos I.
A dominant negative approach for functional studies of the kinesin II complex.
Methods Mol Biol. 2001;164:191-204. Review.		  
     
  Kuznetsov SA, Gelfand VI.
Purification of kinesin from the brain.
Methods Mol Biol. 2001;164:1-7. Review.		  
     
  Allison DW, Chervin AS, Gelfand VI, Craig AM.
Postsynaptic scaffolds of excitatory and inhibitory synapses in hippocampal neurons: maintenance
of core components independent of actin filaments and microtubules.
J Neurosci. 2000 Jun 15;20(12):4545-54.		  
     
  Rogers SL, Gelfand VI.
Membrane trafficking, organelle transport, and the cytoskeleton.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2000 Feb;12(1):57-62. Review.		  
     
   
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