Publications

Rock, R.S.; A new direction for titin pulling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(32) (2009),13149-50

Ren, Y.; Effler, J.C.; Norstrom, M.; Luo, T.; Firtel, R.A.; Iglesias, P.A.; Rock, R.S.; Robinson, D.N.; Mechanosensing through Cooperative Interactions between Myosin II and the Actin Crosslinker Cortexillin I. Curr Biol (2009) [Epub ahead of print]

Courson, D.S.; Rock, R.S. Fast benchtop fabrication of laminar flow chambers for advanced microscopy techniques. PLoS One 4(8) (2009): e6479.

Rizk S.; Luchniak, A.; Uysal, S.; Brawley, C.; Rock, R.S.; and Kossiakoff. A. An engineered Substance P variant for receptor-mediated delivery of synthetic antibodies into tumor cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106(27) (2009), 11011

Brawley C.; Rock. R.S.; Unconventional myosin traffic in cells reveals a selective actin cytoskeleton. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106(24) (2009), 9685

Nagy, S.; Ricca, B.L.; Norstrom, M.F.; Courson, D.S.; Brawley, C.; Smithback, P.A.; Rock, R.S. A myosin motor that selects bundled actin for motility. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (2008), 9616

Rizvi, S.A.; Courson, D.S.; Keller, V.A.; Rock, R.S.; Kozmin, S.A. The dual mode of action of bistramide A entails severing of filamentous actin and covalent protein modification. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (2008), 4088

Rock, R.S.; Ramamurthy, B.; Dunn, A.R.; Beccafico, S.; Bhadresh, R.; Morris, C.; Spink, B.; Franzini-Armstrong, C.; Spudich, J.A.; Sweeney, H.L. A major flexible domain is critical for the large step size and processivity of myosin VI. Mol. Cell 17 (2005), 603

Churchman, L.S.; Ökten, Z.; Rock, R.S.; Dawson, J.F.; Spudich, J.A. Single molecule high-resolution colocalization of Cy3 and Cy5 attached to macromolecules measures intramolecular distances through time. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102 (2005), 1419

Ökten, Z.; Churchman, L.S.; Rock, R.S.; Spudich, J.A. Myosin VI walks hand-over-hand along actin. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 11 (2004), 884

Rock, R.S.; Purcell, T.J.; Spudich, J.A. The mechanics of unconventional myosins. The Enzymes: Energy Coupling and Molecular Motors. Tamanoi, F. and Hackney, D.D., eds. (2003) vol. 23, pp. 55

Robinson, D.N.; Ocon, S.S.; Rock, R.S.; Spudich, J.A. Dynacortin is a novel actin bundling protein that localizes to dynamic actin structures. J. Biol. Chem. 277 (2002), 9088

Spudich, J.A.; Rock, R.S. A crossbridge too far. Nat. Cell Bio. 4 (2002), E8

Rock, R.S.; Rice, S.E.; Wells, A.L.; Purcell, T.J.; Spudich, J.A.; Sweeney, L. Myosin VI is a processive motor with a large step size. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (2001), 13655

Murphy, C.T.; Rock, R.S.; Spudich, J.A. A myosin II mutation uncouples ATPase activity from motility and shortens step size. Nature Cell Bio. 3 (2001), 301

Hansen, K.; Rock, R.S.; Larsen, R.W.; Chan, S.I. A method for photoinitiating protein folding in a nondenaturing environment. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122 (2000), 11567

Rock, R.S.; Rief, M.; Mehta, A.D.; Spudich, J.A. In vitro assays of processive myosin motors. Methods 22 (2000), 373

Rief, M.; Rock, R.S.; Mehta, A.D.; Mooseker, M.S.; Cheney, R.E.; Spudich, J.A. Myosin-V stepping kinetics: a molecular model for processivity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97 (2000), 9482

Mehta, A.D.; Rock, R.S.; Rief, M.; Spudich, J.A.; Mooseker, M.S.; Cheney, R.E. Myosin-V is a processive actin based motor. Nature 400 (1999), 590

Rock, R.S.; Chan, S.I. Preparation of a water-soluble cage based on 3’,5’-dimethoxybenzoin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 (1998), 10766

Rock, R.S.; Chan, S.I. Synthesis and photolysis properties of a photolabile linker based on 3'-methoxybenzoin J. Org. Chem. 61 (1996), 1526

Stowell, M.H.B.; Rock, R.S.; Rees, D.C.; Chan, S.I. Efficient synthesis of photolabile alkoxy benzoin protecting groups Tet. Lett. 37 (1996), 307