A purified Drosophila septin complex forms filaments and exhibits GTPase activity

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 605-616

  Field, Christine M ^a   Al Awar, Omayma ^b   Rosenblatt, Jody ^a   Wong, Mei Lie ^a   Alberts, Bruce ^a   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZETHONIUM CHLORIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXORIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0029982293     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.133.3.605     Document Type: Article

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