Hess, N., W.A. Kronert and S.I. Bernstein. 1989. Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of Drosophila myosin heavy chain gene expression. In: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Muscle Development. (eds. L.H. Kedes and F.E. Stockdale), pp. 621-631. A.R. Liss, New York.
Johnson, G.G., W.A. Kronert, S.I. Bernstein, V.M. Chapman and K.D. Smith. 1988. Altered Turnover of Allelic Variants of Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase Is Associated with N-terminal Amino Acid Sequence Variation. J. Biol. Chem. 263:9079-9082.
Collier, V., W.A. Kronert, P.T. O'Donnell, K.A. Edwards, S.I. Bernstein. 1990. Alternative myosin hinge regions are utilized in a tissue-specific fashion that correlates with muscle contraction speed. Genes Dev.. 4, 885-895.
Kronert, W.A., K.A. Edwards, E.S. Roche, L. Wells and S.I. Bernstein. 1991. Muscle-specific accumulation of Drosophila myosin heavy chains: a splicing mutation in an alternative exon results in an isoform substution. EMBO J. 10, 2479-2488.
Kronert, W.A., P.T. O'Donnell and S.I. Bernstein. 1994. A charge change in an evolutionarily-conserved region of the myosin globular head prevents myosin and thick filament accumulation in Drosophila. J Mol. Biol. 236, 697-702.
Kronert, W. A., O'Donnell, P. T., Fieck, A., Lawn, A., Vigoreaux, J. O., Sparrow, J. C., and Bernstein, S. I. Defects in the myosin rod permit normal thick filament assembly but cause muscle degeneration. J. Mol. Biol. 249, 111-125.
Cripps, M. R., Becker, D. K., Mardahl, M., Kronert, W. A., Hodges, D., and Bernstein, S. I. 1994. Transformation of Drosophila melanogaster with the Wild-type Myosin Heavy-chain Gene: Rescue of Mutant Phenotypes and Analysis of Defects Caused by Overexpression. J. Cell Biology. 126, 689-699.
Kronert, W.A., A. Acebes, A. Ferrus and S.I. Bernstein. (1999) Specific myosin heavy chain mutations suppress troponin I defects in Drosophila muscles. J. Cell Biol. 144: 989-1000.
Swank, D.M., L. Wells, W.A. Kronert, G.E. Morrill and S.I. Bernstein. (2000) Determining structure/function relationships for sarcomeric myosin heavy chain by genetic and transgenic manipulation of Drosophila. Microsc. Res. Tech. 50: 430-442.
Swank, D. M., A. F. Knowles, W. A. Kronert, J. A. Suggs, G. Morrill, M. Nikkhoy, G. G. Manipon, and S. I. Bernstein. (2003) Variable N-terminal regions of muscle myosin heavy chain modulate ATPase rate and actin sliding velocity. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 17475-17482.
Swank, D.M., W.A. Kronert, S.I. Bernstein and D.W. Maughan. (2004) Alternative N-terminal regions of Drosophila myosin heavy chain tune cross-bridge kinetics for optimal muscle power output. Biophys. J. 87: 1805-1814.
Liu, H., M. S. Miller, D. M. Swank, W. A. Kronert, D. W. Maughan, and S. I. Bernstein. (2005) Paramyosin phosphorylation site disruption affects indirect flight muscle stiffness and power generation in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102: 10522-10527.
Suggs, J. A., A. Cammarato, W. A. Kronert, M. Nikkhoy, C. M. Dambacher, A. Megighian and S. I. Bernstein. (2007) Alternative S2 hinge regions of the myosin rod differentially affect muscle function, myofibril dimensions and myosin tail length. J. Mol. Biol. 367: 1312-1329.
Yang, C., S. Ramanath, W. A. Kronert, S. I. Bernstein, D. W. Maughan, D. M. Swank. (2008) Alternative versions of the myosin relay domain differentially respond to load to influence Drosophila muscle kinetics. Biophys. J. 95:5228-5237.
Cammarato, A., C. M. Dambacher, A. F. Knowles, W. A. Kronert, R. Bodmer, K. Ocorr and S. I. Bernstein. (2008) Myosin transducer mutations differentially affect motor function, myofibril structure and the performance of skeletal and cardiac muscles. Mol. Biol. Cell 19:553-562.
Kronert, W. A., C. M. Dambacher, A. F. Knowles, D. M. Swank and S. I. Bernstein. (2008) Alternative relay domains of Drosophila melanogaster myosin differentially affect ATPase activity, in vitro motility, myofibril structure and muscle function. J. Mol. Biol. 379:443-456.
Kronert WA, Melkani GC, Melkani A, Bernstein SI. (2010) Mutating the converter-relay interface of Drosophila myosin perturbs ATPase activity, actin motility, myofibril stability and flight ability. J Mol Biol. 2010 May 21;398(5):625-32
Lee CF, Melkani GC, Yu Q, Suggs JA, Kronert WA, Suzuki Y, Hipolito L, Price MG, Epstein HF, Bernstein SI. (2011) Drosophila UNC-45 accumulates in embryonic blastoderm and in muscles, and is essential for muscle myosin stability. J Cell Sci. 2011 Mar 1;124(Pt 5):699-705
Kronert WA, Melkani GC, Melkani A, Bernstein SI. (2011) Alternative Relay and Converter Domains Tune Native Muscle Myosin Isoform Function in Drosophila. J Mol Biol. 2011 Dec 28.
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