Signal transduction by G‐proteins, Rho‐kinase and protein phosphatase to smooth muscle and non‐muscle myosin II

By A. Somlyo, A. Somlyo. Journal of Physiology, 2000

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ROCKs: multifunctional kinases in cell behaviour (2003, background): “Rho-kinase (ROK) promotes CD44v(3,8-10)-ankyrin interaction and tumor cell migration in metastatic breast cancer cells.”
Activation of Gβγ signaling downstream of Wnt-11/Xfz7 regulates Cdc42 activity during Xenopus gastrulation (2003, background): “, 2000) where RhoA may regulate the molecular motor myosin II (Somlyo and Somlyo, 2000).”
Adhesion-dependent cell mechanosensitivity. (2003, background): “The most prominent force-generating process is actomyosin contractility, driven by the motor protein myosin II and triggered (in nonmuscle and smooth muscle cells) by the phosphorylation of the myosin II regulatory light chain (Bresnick 1999, Somlyo & Somlyo 2000).”
Physiology of penile erection and pathophysiology of erectile dysfunction. (2005, neutral): “2) [33].”
Actin stress fibers – assembly, dynamics and biological roles (2012, background): “Regulation of stress fiber contraction The contractility of stress fibers is regulated by phosphorylation of the myosin light chain (MLC; these proteins have the symbol MYL in mammals) (Somlyo and Somlyo, 2000).”