Role of the ninaC proteins in photoreceptor cell structure: Ultrastructure of ninaC deletion mutants and binding to actin filaments

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 367-379

  Hicks, Jennifer L ^a,c   Liu, Xinran ^b   Williams, David S ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

actin; Drosophila; myosin; ninaC; photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ACTINS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTATION; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0029857718     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1996)35:4<367::AID-CM8>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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