  In this work we continue our effort to explore a recent proposal, which
allows light-cone distributions to be extracted from purely spatial
correlations, being thus accessible to lattice methods. In order to test the
feasibility of this method, we present our latest results from a twisted mass
lattice calculation of the flavor non-singlet momentum, helicity and
transversity distributions of the nucleon. Furthermore, we apply a newly
proposed momentum improved smearing, which has the potential to reach higher
nucleon momenta as required for a safe matching procedure to the physical
distribution functions.
