Drosophila kelch is an oligomeric ring canal actin organizer

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 799-810

  Robinson, Douglas N ^a,b   Cooley, Lynn ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; OLIGOMER;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; OVARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030757226     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.138.4.799     Document Type: Article

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