Selected publications
1. Priya R, Liang X, Teo JL, Duszyc K., Yap AS and Gomez GA*. 2017. ROCK1 but not ROCK2 contributes to RhoA signaling and NMIIA mediated contractility at the epithelial zonula adherens. Molecular Biology of the Cell 2017. 28(1):12-20. *Corresponding Author
2. Acharya BR, Wu SK, Lieu ZZ, Parton RG, Grill SW, Bershadsky AD, Gomez GA, Yap AS. 2017. Mammalian Diaphanous 1 Mediates a Pathway for E-cadherin to Stabilize Epithelial Barriers through Junctional Contractility. Cell Reports. 18 (12), 2854-2867
3. Priya R*, Gomez GA*, Budnar S, Acharya BR, Czirok A, Yap AS, Neufeld Z. 2017. Bistable front dynamics in a contractile medium: Travelling wave fronts and cortical advection define stable zones of RhoA signaling at epithelial adherens junctions. PLoS Computational Biology 13 (3), e1005411 *Co-first authors
4. Coburn L, Lopez H, Caldwell BJ, Moussa E, Yap C, Priya R, Noppe A, Roberts AP, Lobaskin V, Yap AS, Neufeld Z, Gomez GA*. 2016. Contact inhibition of locomotion and mechanical cross-talk between cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion determines the pattern of junctional tension in epithelial cell aggregates. Molecular Biology of the Cell 27(22):3436-3448 *Corresponding author
5. Michael M, Meiring JC, Acharya BR, Matthews DR, Verma S, Han SP, Hill MM, Parton RG, Gomez GA, Yap AS. 2016. Coronin 1B Reorganizes the Architecture of F-Actin Networks for Contractility at Steady-State and Apoptotic Adherens Junctions. Developmental Cell. Apr 4;37(1):58-71.
6. Priya R, Gomez GA*, Budnar S, Verma S, Cox HL, Hamilton NA, Yap AS*. 2015. Feedback regulation through myosin II confers robustness on RhoA signalling at E-cadherin junctions. Nature Cell Biology 17(10):1282-93. *Corresponding authors
7. Gomez GA*, McLachlan RW, Wu SK, Caldwell BJ, Moussa E, Verma S, Bastiani M, Priya R, Parton RG, Gaus K, Sap J, Yap AS*. 2015. An RPTPα/Src family kinase/Rap1 signaling module recruits myosin IIB to support contractile tension at apical E-cadherin junctions. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(7):1249-62.* Corresponding authors.
8. Caldwell BJ, Lucas C, Kee AJ, Gaus K, Gunning PW, Hardeman EC, Yap AS* and Gomez GA*. 2014. Tropomyosin isoforms support actomyosin biogenesis to generate contractile tension at the epithelial zonula adherens. Cytoskeleton 71:663. *Corresponding Authors.
9. Wu SK, Gomez GA*, Michael M, Verma S, Cox HL, Lefevre JG, Parton RG, Hamilton NA, Neufeld Z, Yap AS*. 2014. Cortical F-actin stabilization generates apical-lateral patterns of junctional contractility that integrate cells into epithelia. Nature Cell Biology. 16(2):167-78. *Corresponding Authors.
10. Ratheesh A.*, Gomez GA*, Priya R, Verma S, Kovacs EM, Jiang K, Brown NH, Akhmanova A, Stehbens SJ, Yap AS. 2012. Centralspindlin and α-catenin regulate Rho signalling at the epithelial zonula adherens. Nature Cell Biology 14(8):818-28.* co-first author.