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Publications

Ata Akatay, Tianyao Wu, Umidahan Djakbarova, Cristopher Thompson, Emanuele Cocucci, Roya Zandi, Joseph Rudnick, Comert Kural "Endocytosis at Extremes: Formation and Internalization of Giant Clathrin-1 coated Pits Under Elevated Membrane Tension" Frontiers Molecular Biosciences Accepted (2022).

Nathan M. Willy, Joshua P. Ferguson, Ata Akatay, Scott Huber, Umidahan Djakbarova, Salih Silahli, Cemal Cakez, Farah Hasan, Henry C. Chang, Alex Travesset, Siyu Li, Roya Zandi, Dong Li, Eric Betzig, Emanuele Cocucci, Comert Kural "De novo Endocytic Clathrin Coats Develop Curvature at Early Stages of Their Formation" Developmental Cell 56(22):3146-59 (2021).

Nathan Willy, Federico Colombo, Scott Huber, Anna Smith, Erienne Norton, Comert Kural, and Emanuele Cocucci "CALM supports clathrin-coated vesicle completion upon membrane tension increase" PNAS, 118(25):e2010438118 (2021).

Umidahan Djakbarova, Yasaman Madraki, Emily Chan, Comert Kural "Dynamic interplay between cell membrane tension and clathrin-mediated endocytosis" Biology of the Cell, 113(8):344-373 (2021).

Hongda Wang, Yair Rivenson, Yiyin Jin, Zhensong Wei, Ronald Gao, Harun Gunaydin, Laurent A. Bentolila, Comert Kural, Aydogan Ozcan "Deep learning enables cross-modality super-resolution in fluorescence microscopy" Nature Methods, 16(1):103-110 (2019).

Joshua P. Ferguson, Scott D. Huber, Nathan M. Willy, Esra Aygun, Sevde Goker, Tugba Atabey, Comert Kural "Mechanoregulation of Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis" Journal of Cell Science, 130:3611-3617 (2017).

Nathan M. Willy, Joshua P. Ferguson, Scott D. Huber, Spencer P. Heidotting, Esra Aygun, Sarah A. Wurm, Zeke Johnston-Halperin, Michael G. Poirier, Comert Kural "Membrane Mechanics Govern Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Endocytic Clathrin Coat Dynamics" Molecular Biology of the Cell, 28(24):3480-3488 (2017).

Joshua P. Ferguson, Nathan M. Willy, Spencer P. Heidotting, Scott D. Huber, Matthew J. Webber, Comert Kural "Deciphering dynamics of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in a living organism" Journal of Cell Biology, 214(3):347-58 (2016).

Patrick D. Halley, Christopher R. Lucas, Emily M. McWilliams, Matthew J. Webber, Randy A. Patton, Comert Kural, David M. Lucas, John C. Byrd, Carlos E. Castro "Daunorubicin-Loaded DNA Origami Nanostructures Circumvent Drug-Resistance Mechanisms in a Leukemia Model" Small, 12(3):308-20 (2016).

Dipu Mohan Kumar, Mingqun Lin, Qingming Xiong, Mathew James Webber, Comert Kural, Yasuko Rikihisaa "EtpE Binding to DNase X Induces Ehrlichial Entry via CD147 and hnRNP-K Recruitment, Followed by Mobilization of N-WASP and Actin" mBio, 6(6):e01541-15 (2015).

Comert Kural*, Ahmet Ata Akatay, Raphael Gaudin, Bi-Chang Chen, Wesley R. Legant, Eric Betzig, and Tom Kirchhausen* "Asymmetric formation of coated pits on dorsal and ventral surfaces at the leading edges of motile cells and on protrusions of immobile cells" Molecular Biology of the Cell, 26(11):2044-53 (2015) (* corresponding authors).

Steeve Boulant, Megan Stanifer, Comert Kural, David Cureton, Ramiro Massol, Max Nibert, Tomas Kirchhausen "Similar uptake but different trafficking and escape routes of reovirus virions and ISVPs imaged in polarized MDCK cells" Molecular Biology of the Cell, 24(8):1196-207 (2013).

Comert Kural, Silvia K. Tacheva-Grigorova, Steeve Boulant, Emanuele Cocucci, Thorsten Baust, Delfim Duarte, Tomas Kirchhausen. "Dynamics of Intracellular Clathrin/AP1- and Clathrin/AP3-Containing Carriers." Cell Reports, 2(5):1111-1119 (2012).

Comert Kural, Tomas Kirchhausen. "Live cell imaging of clathrin coats." Methods in Enzymology, 505:59-80 (2012).

Steeve Boulant*, Comert Kural*, Jean-Christophe Zeeh, Florent Ubelmann, Tomas Kirchhausen. "Actin dynamics counteract membrane tension during clathrin-mediated endocytosis." Nature Cell Biology, 13(9):1124-31 (2011) (* equally contributed).

Erdal Toprak, Comert Kural, Paul R. Selvin. "Super-accuracy and super-resolution: Getting around the diffraction limit." Methods in Enzymology, 475:1-26 (2010).

Comert Kural, Michael Nonet, Paul R. Selvin. "FIONA on C. elegans." Biochemistry, 48(22):4663-5 (2009)

Igor M. Kulic, Andre E.X. Brown, Hwajin Kim, Comert Kural, Benjamin Blehm, Paul R. Selvin, Philip C. Nelson, Vladimir I. Gelfand. "The role of microtubule movement in bidirectional organelle transport." PNAS, 105(29):10011-6 (2008).

Comert Kural, Anna S. Serpinskaya, Ying-Hao Chou, Robert D. Goldman, Vladimir Gelfand, Paul R. Selvin. "Tracking melanosomes inside a cell to study molecular motors and their interaction." PNAS, 104(13):5378-82 (2007).

Hwajin Kim, Shuo-Chien Ling, Gregory C. Rogers, Comert Kural, Paul R. Selvin, Stephen L. Rogers, Vladimir I. Gelfand. "Microtubule binding by dynactin is required for microtubule organization but not cargo transport." Journal of Cell Biology, 176(5):641-51 (2007).

Comert Kural, Hamza Balci, Paul R. Selvin. "Molecular motors one at a time: FIONA to the rescue." Journal of Physics Condensed Matter: Special issue on Molecular Motors, 17:S3979-95 (2005).

Comert Kural, Hwajin Kim, Gohta Goshima, Vladimir I. Gelfand, Paul R. Selvin. "Kinesin & dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: A Tug-of-War or Coordinated Movement?" Science, 308(5727):1469-72 (2005).

Mehmet Bayindir, Comert Kural, Ekmel Ozbay. "Coupled optical microcavities in one-dimensional photonic bandgap structures." Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 3:184-9 (2001).