Publications

Augustine, R.C., Vidali, L., Kleinman, K.P., and Bezanilla, M. (2008) Actin depolymerizing factor is essential for viability in plants and its phosphoregulation is important for tip growth. Plant Journal (In press)

Herrera-Abreu, M.T.,  Castellanos-Penton, P. , Kwok, V., Shalloway, D., Vidali, L., Lee, W. McCulloch, C.A., and Downey, G.P. (2007) Tyrosine phosphatase PTP regulates focal adhesion remodeling through Rac1 activation. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol (In press)

Vidali, L., Augustine, R.C., Kleinman, K.P., and Bezanilla, M. (2007) Profilin is essential for tip growth in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant Cell. 19:3705-3722

Feng, Y., Chen, M.H., Moskowitz, I., Lu, Q., Liu, J., Mendonza, A.M., Yoshida, Y., Vidali, L., Nakanura, F., Jessell, T.M., Flanagan, J.G., Kwiatkowski, D.J., and Walsh, C.A. (2006) Filamin A is required for cell-cell contact in vascular development and cardiac morphogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 103: 19836-19841

Vidali, L., Chen, F., Cicchetti, G., Ohta, Y., and Kwiatkowski, D.J. (2006) Rac1-null mouse embryonic fibroblasts are motile and respond to platelet-derived growth factor. Mol. Bio. Cell 17:2377-2390 (Highlighted in InCytes, ASCB newsletter)

McKenna, S.T., Vidali, L., and Hepler, P.K. (2004) Profilin inhibits pollen tube growth through actin-binding, but not poly-L-proline-binding. Planta 218:906-915

Yokota, E., Vidali, L., Tominaga, M., Tahara, H., Orii, H., Morizane, Y., Hepler, P.K., and Shimmen, T. (2003) Plant 115-kDa-actin-filament-bundling protein, P-115-ABP, is a homologue of plant villin and is widely distributed in cells. Plant Cell Physiol. 44:1088-1099

Valster, A., Vidali, L., and Hepler, P.K. (2003) Localization of profilin during the cell cycle in living Tradescantia virginiana stamen hair cells. Protoplasma 222: 85-95

Chen, C.Y., Wong, .Y., Vidali, L., Estavillo, A., Hepler, P.K., Wu, H-M., and Cheung, A.Y. (2002) The regulation of actin organization by actin-depolymerizing factor in elongating pollen tubes. Plant Cell 14:2175-2190

Cheung, A.Y., Chen, C.Y-h., Glaven R.H., de Graaf, B., Vidali, L., Hepler, P.K., and Wu, H-m. (2002) Rab2 GTPase regulates vesicle trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi bodies and is important in pollen tubes growth. Plant Cell 14:945-962

Hepler, P.K., Vidali, L., and Cheung, A.Y. (2001) Polarized cell growth in higher plants. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 17:159–187

Vidali, L., McKenna, S.T. and Hepler, P.K. (2001) Actin polymerization is essential for pollen tube growth. Mol. Biol. Cell 12: 2534-2545

Vidali, L., and Hepler, P.K. (2001) Actin and pollen tube growth. Protoplasma 215:64-67

Vidali, L., Holdaway-Clarke, T.L., and Hepler, P.K. (2001) The calcium/cytoskeleton connection in pollen tube growth. In: A. Geitmann, M. Cresti and I.B. Heath (eds) Cell Biology of Plant Fungal Tip growth. IOS Press. Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp 27-35

Vidali, L., and Hepler, P.K. (2000) Actin in pollen and pollen tubes. In: C. J. Staiger, F. Baluska, D. Volkmann and P. Barlow (eds) Actin: A Dynamic Framework for Multiple Plant Cell Functions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 323-345

Pflügl-Hill, M., Vidali, L., Vos, J.W., Hepler, P.K., and Lütz-Meindl, U. (2000) Changes of the actin filament system in the green alga Micrasterias induced by different cytoskeleton inhibitors. Protoplasma 212: 206-216

Tominaga, M., Yokota, E., Vidali, L., Sonobe, S., Hepler, P.K., and Shimmen, T. (2000) The role of plant villin in the organization of the actin cytoskeleton, cytoplasmic streaming and the architecture of the transvacuolar strand in root hair cells of Hydrocharis. Planta 210: 836-843

Guillén, G. Valdés-López, V. Noguez, R. Olivares, J. Rodríguez-Zapata, L.C., Pérez, H. Vidali, L. Villanueva, M.A. and Sánchez, F. (1999) Profilin in Phaseolus vulgaris is encoded by two genes (only one expressed in root nodules) but multiple isoforms are generated in vivo by phosphorylation on tyrosine residues. Plant J. 19: 497-508

Igarashi, H., Vidali, L., Yokota, E., Sonobe, S., Hepler, P.K., and Shimmen, T. (1999) Actin filaments purified from tobacco cultured BY-2 cells can be translocated by plant myosin. Plant Cell Physiol. 40: 1167-1171

Vidali, L., Yokota, E., Cheung, A.Y., Shimmen, T., and Hepler, P.K. (1999) The 135 kDa actin-bundling protein from Lilium longiflorum pollen is the plant homologue of villin. Protoplasma 209: 283-291

Cárdenas, L., Vidali, L., Domínguez, J., Pérez, H., Sánchez, F., Hepler, P., and Quinto, C. (1998) Rearrangement of actin microfilaments in plant root hairs responding to Rhizobium nodulation signals. Plant Physiol. 116:871-877

Vidali, L., and Hepler, P.K. (1997) Characterization and localization of profilin in pollen grains and tubes of Lilium longiflorum. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 36:323-338

Vidali, L., Pérez, H.E., Valdés, V., Noguez, R., Zamudio, F., and F. Sánchez, F. (1995) Purification, characterization and cDNA cloning of profilin from Phaseolus vulgaris. Plant Physiol. 108:115-123

Pérez, HE., Sánchez, N., Vidali, L., Hernández, J.M. Lara, M. and Sánchez, F. (1994) Actin isoforms in non-infected roots and symbiotic root-nodules of Phaseolus vulgaris L. Planta 193:51-56