Dr. Beth Luna is a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.
She also has affiliation with the UMMS Cancer Center, the Interdisciplinary Graduate
Program, the Program in Cell Dynamics, and the Program in Immunology and Virology. Some
of her current research focuses on identifying the binding partners and functions of
supervillin and associated proteins, and exploring the biochemical bases for
supervillin-mediated alterations in actin- and myosin-dependent contractility.

Articles

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Supervillin-mediated Suppression of p53 Protein Enhances Cell Survival (with Zhiyou Fang), The Journal of biological chemistry (2013)
 

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An N-terminal, 830 residues intrinsically disordered region of the cytoskeleton-regulatory protein supervillin contains Myosin II- and F-actin-binding sites (with Stanislav O. Fedechkin, Jacob Brockerman, Michail Yu. Lobanov, Oxana V. Galzitskaya, and Serge L. Smirnov), Journal of biomolecular structure and dynamics (2012)
 

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Human Genome-Wide Association and Mouse Knockout Approaches Identify Platelet Supervillin as an Inhibitor of Thrombus Formation under Shear Stress (with Leonard C. Edelstein, Ian B. Gibson, Molly Bray, Ying Jin, Altaf Kondkar, Srikanth Nagalla, Nacima Hadjout-Rabi, Tara C. Smith, Daniel Covarrubias, Stephen N. Jones, Firdos Ahmad, Moritz Stolla, Xianguo Kong, Zhiyou Fang, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Chad Shaw, Suzanne M. Leal, and Paul F. Bray), Circulation (2012)
 

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Supervillin couples myosin-dependent contractility to podosomes and enables their turnover (with Ridhirama Bhuwania, Susanne Cornfine, Zhiyou Fang, Marcus Kruger, and Stefan Linder), Journal of cell science (2012)
 

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The membrane-associated protein, supervillin, accelerates F-actin-dependent rapid integrin recycling and cell motility (with Zhiyou Fang, Norio Takizawa, Korey A. Wilson, Tara C. Smith, Anna M. Delprato, Michael W. Davidson, and David G. Lambright), Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) (2010)
 

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