Publications
Nowier RM, Johnson CM, Fenn JD, Brown A & Jung P (2026)
Neurofilament transport kinetics can be explained by the activity of small numbers of independent kinesin and dynein motors
Biophysical Journal, in press
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Jahan N, York HM, Bailey HM, Swann IC, Leterrier C, Spiliotis ET, Aiken J, Tymanskyj SR, Brown A, Winckler B & Fu MM (2026)
Integrating cytoskeletal systems in neurons and glia: dynamic orchestration of structure and function
Journal of Neuroscience, in press
Nowier RM, Friedman A, Brown A & Jung P (2023)
The role of neurofilament transport in the radial growth of myelinated axons
Molecular Biology of the Cell 34:ar58, 1–14
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Green JA, Schmid CL, Bley E, Monsma PC, Brown A, Bohn LM & Mykytyn K (2015)
Recruitment of β-arrestin into neuronal cilia modulates somatostatin receptor subtype 3 ciliary localization
Molecular and Cellular Biology 36:223-235
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Xue C, Shtylla B & Brown A (2015)
A stochastic multiscale model that explains the segregation of axonal microtubules and neurofilaments in neurological diseases
PLoS Computational Biology 11:e1004406
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Brown A (2014)
Slow axonal transport
In “Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences”, ed. M Caplan, Elsevier
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Koemeter-Cox A, Sherwood TW, Green JA, Steiner RA, Berbari NF, Yoder BK, Kauffman AS, Monsma PC, Brown A, Askwith CC & Mykytyn K (2014)
Primary cilia enhance kisspeptin receptor signaling on gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111:10335-10340
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Brown A (2013)
Axonal transport
In “Neuroscience in the 21st century: from basic to clinical”, 1st edition, ed. DW Pfaff, Springer, New York, pp. 255-308
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Li Y, Jung P & Brown A (2012)
Axonal transport of neurofilaments: a single population of intermittently moving polymers
Journal of Neuroscience 32:746-758
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Uchida A, Alami NH & Brown A (2009)
Tight functional coupling of kinesin-1A and dynein motors in the bidirectional transport of neurofilaments
Molecular Biology of the Cell 20:4997–5006
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Çolakoğlu G & Brown A (2009)
Intermediate filaments exchange subunits along their length and elongate by end-to-end annealing
Journal of Cell Biology 185:769-777
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Brown A (2009)
Slow axonal transport
In “New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience”, ed. LR Squire, Academic Press, Oxford, Vol. 9, pp. 1-9
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Uchida A & Brown A (2004)
Arrival, reversal and departure of neurofilaments at the tips of growing axons
Molecular Biology of the Cell 15:4215-4225
PubMed | pdf | movies | MBC Paper of the Year Award
Brown A (2003)
Axonal transport of membranous and non-membranous cargoes: a unified perspective
Journal of Cell Biology 160:817-821
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Wang L, Ho C-L, Sun D, Liem RKH & Brown A (2000)
Rapid movement of axonal neurofilaments interrupted by prolonged pauses
Nature Cell Biology 2:137-141
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Baas PW & Brown A (1997)
Slow axonal transport: the polymer transport model
Trends in Cell Biology 7:380-384
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Black MM & Brown A (1993)
Sites of microtubule assembly in growing axons
In “Neuronal Cytoskeleton: Morphogenesis, Transport and Synaptic Transmission”, ed. N Hirokawa, Japan Scientific Societies Press, CRC Press, 171-182
Brown A & Lasek RJ (1990)
The cytoskeleton of the squid giant axon
In “Squid as experimental animals”, ed. DL Gilbert, WJ Adelman Jr & JM Arnold, Plenum Publishing Corporation, NY, 235-302
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