Xiang-dong Li*, Hyun Suk Jung, Qizhi Wang, Reiko Ikebe, Roger Craig, and Mitsuo Ikebe (2008) The globular tail domain puts on the brake to stop the ATPase cycle of the myosin Va. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 1140-1145(*corresponding author. This paper has been citied in “Faculty of 1000”).
Wang, Z., Edwards, J. G., Riley, N., Provance, D. W., Jr., Karcher, R., Li, X. D., Davison, I. G., Ikebe, M., Mercer, J. A., Kauer, J. A. and Ehlers, M. D. (2008) Myosin Vb mobilizes recycling endosomes and AMPA receptors for postsynaptic plasticity. Cell 135, 535-548
Osamu Sato, Xiang-dong Li, and Mitsuo Ikebe (2007) Myosin Va becomes a low duty ratio motor in the inhibited form. Journal of Biological Chemistry 282:13228-13239.
Xiang-dong Li*, Hyun Suk Jung, Katsuhide Mabuchi, Roger Craig, and Mitsuo Ikebe (2006) The globular tail domain of myosin Va functions as an inhibitor of the myosin Va motor. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281:21789-21798 (* corresponding author. ).
Xiang-dong Li, Reiko Ikebe, and Mitsuo Ikebe (2005) Activation of Myosin Va function by melanophilin, a specific docking partner of Myosin Va. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 29435-29441.
Xiang-dong Li, Katsuhide Mabuchi, Reiko Ikebe, and Mitsuo Ikebe (2004) Ca2+ induced activation of ATPase activity of myosin Va is accompanied with a large conformational change. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 315: 538-545.
Xiang-dong Li and Mitsuo Ikebe. (2003) Two functional heads are required for full activation of smooth muscle myosin. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 29435-29441.
Yu Chen, Norio Takizawa, Jessica L Crowley, Sang W. Oh, Cheryl L. Gatto, Taketoshi Kambara, Osamu Sato, Xiang-dong Li, Mitsuo Ikebe, and Elizabeth J. Luna (2003) F-actin and myosin II binding domains in supervillin. Journal of Biological Chemistry ?278:46094-46106
Xiang-dong Li, Junya Saito, Reiko Ikebe, Katsuhide Mabuchi, and Mitsuo Ikebe (2000) The interaction between the regulatory light chain domains on two heads is critical for regulation of smooth muscle myosin. Biochemistry 39(9): 2254-2260.
Xiang-dong Li, Troy E. Rhodes, Reiko Ikebe, Taketoshi Kambara, Howard D. White and Mitsuo Ikebe (1998) Effects of mutations in the g-phosphate binding site of myosin on its motor function. Journal of Biological Chemistry 273(42): 27404-27411.