How profilin/barbed-end synergy controls actin polymerization: A kinetic model of the ATP hydrolysis circuit

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 309-330

  Dufort, Paul A ^a   Lumsden, Charles J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

barbed end capping; cell motility; nucleotide exchange; thymosin 4; treadmilling

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; HYDROLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION;

ACTINS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL MOVEMENT; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROFILINS; THYMOSIN;

EID: 0029965630     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1996)35:4<309::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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