In this issue

Biological functions of collagen fragments
J Cell Sci 2002 115: e2201. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Spectraplakins — giant, highly complex, cytoskeletal linkers
J Cell Sci 2002 115: e2202. [Full Text] [PDF]  

A tail of myosin II
J Cell Sci 2002 115: e2203. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Control of cell motility by PTP-PEST
J Cell Sci 2002 115: e2204. [Full Text] [PDF]  

TFIIH kinase: for specific not general transcription
J Cell Sci 2002 115: e2205. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Commentaries

Nathalie Ortega and Zena Werb

New functional roles for non-collagenous domains of basement membrane collagens
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4201-4214. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Katja Röper, Stephen L. Gregory, and Nicholas H. Brown

The `Spectraplakins': cytoskeletal giants with characteristics of both spectrin and plakin families
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4215-4225. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research Articles

Mats Grände, Åsa Franzen, Jan-Olof Karlsson, Lars E. Ericson, Nils-Erik Heldin, and Mikael Nilsson

Transforming growth factor-ß and epidermal growth factor synergistically stimulate epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) through a MEK-dependent mechanism in primary cultured pig thyrocytes
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4227-4236. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shi Shu, Xiong Liu, Carole A. Parent, Taro Q. P. Uyeda, and Edward D. Korn

Tail chimeras of Dictyostelium myosin II support cytokinesis and other myosin II activities but not full development
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4237-4249. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Peter Nagy, György Vereb, Zsolt Sebestyén, Gábor Horváth, Stephen J. Lockett, Sándor Damjanovich, John W. Park, Thomas M. Jovin, and János Szöllosi

Lipid rafts and the local density of ErbB proteins influence the biological role of homo- and heteroassociations of ErbB2
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4251-4262. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Heinrich Horstmann, Chee Peng Ng, Bor Luen Tang, and Wanjin Hong

Ultrastructural characterization of endoplasmic reticulum — Golgi transport containers (EGTC)
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4263-4273. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nina Korsisaari, Derrick J. Rossi, Anders Paetau, Patrick Charnay, Mark Henkemeyer, and Tomi P. Mäkelä

Conditional ablation of the Mat1 subunit of TFIIH in Schwann cells provides evidence that Mat1 is not required for general transcription
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4275-4284. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Allison L. Berrier, Robert Martinez, Gary M. Bokoch, and Susan E. LaFlamme

The integrin ß tail is required and sufficient to regulate adhesion signaling to Rac1
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4285-4291. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Catherine McCaig, Claire M. Perks, and Jeff M. P. Holly

Intrinsic actions of IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-5 on Hs578T breast cancer epithelial cells: inhibition or accentuation of attachment and survival is dependent upon the presence of fibronectin
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4293-4303. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sarita K. Sastry, Patrick D. Lyons, Michael D. Schaller, and Keith Burridge

PTP-PEST controls motility through regulation of Rac1
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4305-4316. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jean-Pierre David, Kanaga Sabapathy, Oskar Hoffmann, Maria H. Idarraga, and Erwin F. Wagner

JNK1 modulates osteoclastogenesis through both c-Jun phosphorylation-dependent and -independent mechanisms
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4317-4325. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dorothy I. Mundy, Thomas Machleidt, Yun-shu Ying, Richard G. W. Anderson, and George S. Bloom

Dual control of caveolar membrane traffic by microtubules and the actin cytoskeleton
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4327-4339. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Movies]  

Mariella D'Alessandro, David Russell, Susan M. Morley, Anthony M. Davies, and E. Birgitte Lane

Keratin mutations of epidermolysis bullosa simplex alter the kinetics of stress response to osmotic shock
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4341-4351. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Joanne S. Lymn, Mahendra K. Patel, Gerard F. Clunn, Sarafina J. Rao, Karen L. Gallagher, and Alun D. Hughes

Thrombospondin-1 differentially induces chemotaxis and DNA synthesis of human venous smooth muscle cells at the receptor-binding level
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4353-4360. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ron J. Jankowski, Bridget M. Deasy, Baohong Cao, Charley Gates, and Johnny Huard

The role of CD34 expression and cellular fusion in the regeneration capacity of myogenic progenitor cells
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4361-4374. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Yoshie Tange, Aiko Hirata, and Osami Niwa

An evolutionarily conserved fission yeast protein, Ned1, implicated in normal nuclear morphology and chromosome stability, interacts with Dis3, Pim1/RCC1 and an essential nucleoporin
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4375-4385. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Errata

Calponin homology domains at a glance
J Cell Sci 2002 115: 4387. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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