Structure-function analysis of the motor domain of myosin

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 1996, Pages 543-573

  Ruppel, Kathleen M ^a   Spudich, James A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cytoskeletal proteins; molecular motors; mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; THIOL;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0029731663     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.12.1.543     Document Type: Review

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