Publications

Purnell C, Heebner J, Swulius MT, Hylton R, Kabonick S, Grillo M, Grigoryev S, Heberle F, Waxham MN, Swulius MT. Rapid Synthesis of Cryo-ET Data for Training Deep Learning Models. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Apr 28:2023.04.28.538636. doi: 10.1101/2023.04.28.538636. PMID: 37162972; PMCID: PMC10168359.

Minamide LS, Hylton R, Swulius MT, Bamburg JR. Visualizing Cofilin-Actin Filaments by Immunofluorescence and CryoEM: Essential Steps for Observing Cofilactin in Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2593:265-281. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2811-9_18. PMID: 36513938.

Heebner JE, Purnell C, Hylton RK, Marsh M, Grillo MA, Swulius MT. Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of Cryo-Electron Tomograms. J Vis Exp. 2022 Nov 11;(189). doi: 10.3791/64435. PMID: 36440884.

Zhang DY, Wang J, Fleeman RM, Kuhn MK, Swulius MT, Proctor EA, Dokholyan NV. Monosialotetrahexosylganglioside Promotes Early Aβ42 Oligomer Formation and Maintenance. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2022 Jul 6;13(13):1979-1991. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00221. Epub 2022 Jun 17. PMID: 35713284; PMCID: PMC10137048.

Hylton RK, Heebner JE, Grillo MA, Swulius MT. Cofilactin filaments regulate filopodial structure and dynamics in neuronal growth cones. Nat Commun. 2022 May 4;13(1):2439.

Deligey F, Frank MA, Cho SH, Kirui A, Mentink-Vigier F, Swulius MT, Nixon BT, Wang T. Structure of In Vitro-Synthesized Cellulose Fibrils Viewed by Cryo-Electron Tomography and 13C Natural-Abundance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Solid-State NMR. Biomacromolecules. 2022 Mar 26. 

Hylton RK, Swulius MT. Challenges and triumphs in cryo-electron tomography. iScience. 2021 Aug 8;24(9):102959.

Hylton RK, Seader VH, Swulius MT. Cryo-Electron Tomography and Automatic Segmentation of Cultured Hippocampal Neurons. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2215:25-48.

Hettiarachchi CA, Swulius MT, Harte FM. Assessing constituent volumes and morphology of bovine casein micelles using cryo-electron tomography. J Dairy Sci. 2020 May;103(5):3971-3979.

Nguyen LT, Swulius MT, Aich S, Mishra M, Jensen GJ. Coarse-grained simulations of actomyosin rings point to a nodeless model involving both unipolar and bipolar myosins. Mol Biol Cell. 2018 Jun 1;29(11):1318-1331.

Swulius MT, Nguyen LT, Ladinsky MS, Ortega DR, Aich S, Mishra M, Jensen GJ. (2018) Structure of the fission yeast actomyosin ring during constriction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Feb 13;115(7):E1455-E1464.

Oikonomou, C.M., Swulius, M.T., Briegel, A.,Beeby, M, Yao, Q., and Jensen, G.J. (2016)Electron cryotomography. Methods in Microbiology.

Farley M.M., Swulius M.T., Waxham M.N. (2015) Electron tomographic structure and protein composition of isolated rat cerebellar, hippocampal and cortical postsynaptic densities. Neuroscience. 304:286-301.

Swulius, M.T., and Jensen, G.J. (2012). The helical MreB cytoskeleton in E. coli MC1000/pLE7 is an artifact of the N-terminal YFP tag. Journal of Bacteriology.

Swulius, M.T., Chen, S., Jane Ding, H., Li, Z., Briegel, A., Pilhofer, M., Tocheva, E.I., Lybarger, S.R., Johnson, T.L., Sandkvist, M. and Jensen, G.J. (2011). Long helical filaments are not seen encircling cells in electron cryotomograms of rod-shaped bacteria. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 407, 650–655.

Swulius, M.T., Farley, M.M., Bryant, M.A., and Neal Waxham, M. (2012). Electron Cryotomography of Postsynaptic Densities During Development Reveals a Mechanism of Assembly. Neuroscience. 212:19-29.

Swulius, M.T., Kubota, Y., Forest, A., and Waxham, M.N. (2010). Structure and composition of the postsynaptic density during development. J. Comp. Neurol. 518, 4243–4260.

Sanabria, H., Swulius, M.T., Kolodziej, S.J., Liu, J., and Waxham, M.N. (2009). {beta}CaMKII regulates actin assembly and structure. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 9770–9780.

Forest, A., Swulius, M.T., Tse, J.K.Y., Bradshaw, J.M., Gaertner, T., and Waxham, M.N. (2008). Role of the N- and C-lobes of calmodulin in the activation of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. Biochemistry 47, 10587–10599.

Swulius, M.T., and Waxham, M.N. (2008). Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 65, 2637–2657.

Wu, Y., Termine, D.J., Swulius, M.T., Moremen, K.W., and Sifers, R.N. (2007). Human endoplasmic reticulum mannosidase I is subject to regulated proteolysis. J. Biol. Chem. 282, 4841–4849.

Wu, Y., Swulius, M.T., Moremen, K.W., and Sifers, R.N. (2003). Elucidation of the molecular logic by which misfolded alpha 1-antitrypsin is preferentially selected for degradation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 8229–8234.