Publications

Kovar, D.R., Harris, E.S., Mahaffy, R., Higgs, H.N. and T.D. Pollard. 2006. Control of the assembly of ATP- and ADP-actin by formins and profilin. Cell. 124, 423-435. (PubMed)

Kovar, D.R. Molecular details of formin-mediated actin assembly. 2006. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 18, 11-17. (PubMed)

Wu JQ, Sirotkin V, Kovar DR, Lord M, Beltzner CC, Kuhn JR, Pollard TD. Assembly of the cytokinetic contractile ring from a broad band of nodes in fission yeast. J Cell Biol. 2006 Jul 31;174(3):391-402. Epub 2006 Jul 24. (PubMed)

Vavylonis D, Kovar DR, O'Shaughnessy B, Pollard TD. Model of formin-associated actin filament elongation. Mol Cell. 2006 Feb 17;21(4):455-66. (PubMed)

Kovar, D.R., Wu, J.-Q., and T.D. Pollard. 2005. Profilin-mediated competition between capping protein and formin Cdc12p during cytokinesis in fission yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell. 16, 2313-2324. (PubMed)

Kovar, D.R. and T.D. Pollard. Insertional assembly of actin in association with formins produces piconewton forces. 2004. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 41, 14725-14730. (PubMed)

Kovar, D.R., Kuhn, J.R., Tichy, A.L., and T.D. Pollard. 2003. The fission yeast cytokinesis formin Cdc12p is a barbed end actin filament capping protein gated by profilin. J. Cell Biol. 161, 875-887. (PubMed)

Wu, J.-Q., Kuhn, J.R., Kovar, D.R., and T.D. Pollard. 2003. Spatial and temporal pathway for assembly and constriction of the contractile ring in fission yeast cytokinesis. Devel. Cell. 5, 723-734. (PubMed)