N-tropomodulin: A novel isoform of tropomodulin identified as the major binding protein to brain tropomyosin

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2299-2310

  Watakabe, Akiya ^a   Kobayashi, Ryuji ^a   Helfman, David M ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

F actin; Neuronal cytoskeleton; Tropomodulin; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; BRAIN PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RIBONUCLEASE; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EMBRYO; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FETUS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029838840     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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