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Cammarato, A., Hatch, V., Saide, J., Craig, R., Sparrow, J. C., Tobacman L.S. and Lehman, W. (2004) Drosophila muscle regulation characterized by electron microscopy and 3D reconstruction of thin filament mutants. Biophys. J. 86:1618-24. PMCID: PMC1303996

Cammarato, A., Craig, R., Sparrow, J.C. and Lehman, W. (2005) E93K charge reversal on actin perturbs steric regulation of thin filaments. J. Mol. Biol. 347:889-894.

Ayme-Southgate, A., Saide J.D., Southgate R., Bounaix C., Cammarato A., Patel S.R. and Wussler, C. (2005) In indirect flight muscles Drosophila projectin has a short PEVK domain, and its NH2-terminus is embedded at the Z-band. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 26:467-477.

Journal of Molecular Biology
Volume 358, Issue 3,
5 May 2006, Pages 635–645

Melkani, G., Cammarato, A. and Bernstein, S.I. (2006) αB-crystallin maintains skeletal muscle myosin enzymatic activity and prevents its aggregation under heat shock stress. J. Mol. Biol. 358:635-645.

Suggs, J.A., Cammarato, A., Kronert, W.A., Nikkoy, M., Megighian, A. and Bernstein, S.I. (2007) Alternative S2 hinge regions of the myosin rod differentially affect muscle function, myofibril dimensions and myosin tail length. J. Mol. Biol. 367:1312-1329. PMCID: PMC1965590

Cammarato, A., Dambacher, C. M., Knowles, A. F., Kronert, W. A., Bodmer, R., Ocorr, K.* and Bernstein S. I.* (2008) Myosin transducer mutations differentially affect motor function, myofibril structure and the performance of skeletal and cardiac muscles. Mol. Biol. Cell. 19:553-562. (* co-corresponding authors) PMCID: PMC2230588

Taghli-Lamallem, O.*, Bodmer, R., Chamberlain, J.S., Cammarato, A.* (2008) Genetics and pathogenic mechanisms of cardiomyopathies in the Drosophila model. Drug Discov. Today Dis. Models. 5:125-134. (* co-corresponding authors)

Ocorr, K., Fink M., Cammarato, A., Bernstein, S.I., and Bodmer, R. (2009) Semi-automated optical heartbeat analysis of small hearts. J. Vis. Exp. 31: Sep 16. PMCID: PMC3150057

Alayari, N.N., Vogler, G., Taghli-Lamallem, O., Ocorr, K., Bodmer, R., and Cammarato, A*. (2009) Fluorescent labeling of Drosophila heart structures. J. Vis. Exp. 32: Oct 13. (* corresponding author) PMCID: PMC3164059

Cammarato, A.*, Craig, R., and Lehman, W. (2010) Electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction of native thin filaments reveal species-specific differences in regulatory strand densities. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 391:193-197. (* corresponding author) PMCID: PMC2818542

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Cell, Volume 141, Issue 1,
142-153, 2 April 2010
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Neely, G. G.*, Kuba, K.*, Cammarato, A.*, Isobe, K., Amann, S., Zhang, L., Murata, M., Elmén, L., Gupta, V., Arora, S., Sarangi, R., Dan, D., Fujisawa, S., Usami, T., Xia, C., Keene, A.C., Alayari, N.N., Yamakawa, H., Elling, U., Berger, C., Novatchkova, M., Koglgruber, R., Fukuda, K., Nishina, H., Isobe, M., Pospisilik, J.A., Imai, Y., Pfeufer, A., Hicks, A.A., Pramstaller, P.P., Subramaniam, S., Kimura, A., Ocorr, K., Bodmer, R., and Penninger, J.M. (2010) A global in vivo Drosophila RNAi screen identifies NOT3 as a conserved regulator of heart function. Cell. 141:142-53. (* equally contributing authors) PMCID: PMC2855221

Vikhorev, P.G., Vikhoreva, N.N., Cammarato, A., and Sparrow J.C. (2010) In vitro motility of native thin filaments from Drosophila indirect flight muscles reveals that the held-up 2 TnI mutation affects calcium activation. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 31:171-9.

Melkani, G.C., Lee, C.F., Cammarato, A., Bernstein, S.I. (2010) Drosophila UNC-45 prevents heat-induced aggregation of skeletal muscle myosin and facilitates refolding of citrate synthase. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 396:317-322. PMCID: PMC2888609

Sousa, D., Cammarato, A., Jang, K., Graceffa, P., Tobacman, L.S., Li, X., and Lehman, W. (2010) Electron microscopy and persistence length analysis of semi-rigid smooth muscle tropomyosin strands. Biophys. J. 99:862-868. PMCID: PMC2913205

Cammarato, A., Alayari, N.N., Rucker, J., Reedy, M.C., Zmasek, C.M., Gucek, M., Cole, R.N., Van Eyk, J.E., Bodmer, R., O’Rourke, B., Bernstein, S.I. and Foster, D.B. (2011) A mighty small heart: the cardiac proteome of adult Drosophila Melanogaster. PLoS One. 25;6(4):e18497. PMCID: PMC3081823

Cammarato, A., Li, X.E., Reedy, M.C., Lee, C.F., Lehman, W., and Bernstein, S.I. (2011) Structural basis for myopathic defects engendered by alterations in the myosin rod. J. Mol. Biol. 414: 477-84

Kaushik, G., Fuhrmann, A., Cammarato, A.*, and Engler, A.J.* (2011) In situ mechanical analysis of myofibrillar perturbation and aging on soft, bilayered Drosophila myocardium. Biophys. J. 101: 2629-37. (* co-corresponding authors)

Kaushik, G., Zambon, A.C., Fuhrmann, A., Bernstein, S.I., Bodmer, R., Engler, A.J., and Cammarato, A.* (2012) Measuring passive myocardial stiffness in Drosophila melanogaster to investigate diastolic dysfunction. J Cell Mol Med. doi: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2011.01517.x. [Epub ahead of print] (* corresponding author)

Wang, Y., Melkani, G.C., Suggs, J.A., Melkani, A., Kronert, W.A., Cammarato, A.*, Bernstein, S.I.* (2012) Expression of the inclusion body myopathy 3 mutation in Drosophila depresses myosin function and stability and recapitulates muscle inclusions and weakness. Mol Biol Cell. 23: 2057-65. PMCID: PMC3364171 (* co-corresponding authors)