Publications

Vera, C., Skelton, R., Bossens, F., and Sung, L.A.: 3D nano-mechanics of an erythrocyte junctional complex in equibiaxial and anisotropic deformation. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 33:1387-1404, 2005.

Blatnik, J, Schmid-Schöbein, and Sung, L.A.: The influence of fluid shear stress on the remodeling of embryonic primary capillary plexus. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 4:211-220, 2005.

Chu, X., Chen, J., Reedy, M.C., Vera, C., Sung, K.L.P., and Sung, L.A.: E-Tmod capping of actin filaments at the slow growing end is required to establish mouse embryonic circulation. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 284:H1827-H1838, 2003.

Sung, L.A. and Vera, C.: Protofilament and Hexagon: A 3-D mechanical model for the junctional complex in the erythrocyte membrane skeleton. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 31:1314-1326, 2003.

Sung, L.A.: Molecular basis of cell membrane mechanics. In Introduction to Bioengineering. World Scientific Publishing Co., Ltd., Ch9: pg.217, 2001

Chu X, Thompson D, Yee LJ, Sung L.A.: Genomic organization of mouse and human erythrocyte tropomodulin genes encoding the pointed end capping protein for actin filaments. Gene 256:271-281, 2000.

Vera, C., Sood, A., Gao, K.-M., Yee, L.J., Lin, J.J.-C., and Sung, L.A.: Tropomodulin-binding site mapped to residues 7-14 at the N-terminal heptad repeats of human tropomyosin isoform 5. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 378:16-24, 2000.

Sung, L.A., Gao, K.-M., Yee, L.J., Temm-Grove, C.J., Helfman, D.M., Lin, J. -J. C., and Mehrpouryan, M.: Tropomyosin isoform 5b is expressed in human erythrocytes: Implications of tropomodulin-TM5 or tropomodulin-TM5b complexes in the protofilament and hexagonal organization of membrane skeletons. Blood 95:1473-1480, 2000.