William Hancock

Professor of Bioengineering

William Hancock

Research Summary

The detailed workings of motor proteins and their role in intracellular transport and cell motility.

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Kinesin Microtubules Hydrolysis Dyneins Adenosine Triphosphate Force Neck Proteins Head Kinetics Velocity Aptitude Nucleotides Polymerization In Vitro Techniques Length Polymerization Reaction Tubulin Dynactin Complex Fluorescence Simulation Protein Population Growth Molecules

Most Recent Publications

Simulations suggest robust microtubule attachment of kinesin and dynein in antagonistic pairs

Tzu Chen Ma, Allison M. Gicking, Qingzhou Feng, William O. Hancock, 2023, Biophysical Journal on p. 3299-3313

Kinesin-1, -2 and -3 use family-specific mechanochemical strategies to effectively compete with dynein during bidirectional transport

Allison M. Gicking, Tzu Chen Ma, Qingzhou Feng, Rui Jiang, Somaye Badieyan, Michael A. Cianfrocco, William O. Hancock, 2023, Biophysical Journal on p. 411a

Serapion Pyrpassopoulos, Allison M. Gicking, Taylor M. Zaniewski, William O. Hancock, E. Michael Ostap, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

High-Resolution Tracking of Dynein-Dynactin-BicD2 Complexes

Qingzhou Feng, Allison M. Gicking, William O. Hancock, 2023, on p. 177-186

A Solon, T Zaniewski, Patrick O’Brien, P O'Brien, M Clasby, William Hancock, R Ohi, 2022, Molecular Biology of the Cell on p. ar132

William Hancock, 2022, Current Biology on p. R914-R916

P Wisanpitayakorn, K Mickolajczyk, William Hancock, L Vidali, E Tüzel, 2022, Biophysical Journal on p. 1813-1822

J Cleary, T Kim, Annan S.I. Cook, Cook ASI, L McCormick, William Hancock, L Rice, 2022, eLife

Most-Cited Papers

William O. Hancock, 2014, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology on p. 615-628

Johan O.L. Andreasson, Bojan Milic, Geng Yuan Chen, Nicholas R. Guydosh, William O. Hancock, Steven M. Block, 2015, eLife on p. 1-44

Bojan Milic, Johan O.L. Andreasson, William O. Hancock, Steven M. Block, 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 14136-14140

Keith J. Mickolajczyk, Nathan C. Deffenbaugh, Jaime Ortega Arroyo, Joanna Andrecka, Philipp Kukura, William O. Hancock, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E7186-E7193

Yalei Chen, William O. Hancock, 2015, Nature Communications

William O. Hancock, 2016, Biophysical Journal on p. 1216-1225

Göker Arpaʇ, Shankar Shastry, William O. Hancock, Erkan Tüzel, 2014, Biophysical Journal on p. 1896-1904

Johan O.L. Andreasson, Shankar Shastry, William O. Hancock, Steven M. Block, 2015, Current Biology on p. 1166-1175

Gregory J. Hoeprich, Andrew R. Thompson, Derrick P. McVicker, William O. Hancock, Christopher L. Berger, 2014, Biophysical Journal on p. 1691-1700

Yalei Chen, Nathan C. Deffenbaugh, Charles T. Anderson, William O. Hancock, 2014, Molecular Biology of the Cell on p. 3630-3642