Essential functions and actin-binding surfaces of yeast cofilin revealed by systematic mutagenesis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 5520-5530

  Lappalainen, Pekka ^b   Fedorov, Elena V ^a   Fedorov, Alexander A ^a   Almo, Steven C ^a   Drubin, David G ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cofilin; Mutagenesis; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COFILIN; F ACTIN; G ACTIN; MONOMER; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MUTANT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; YEAST CELL;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GELSOLIN; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030880186     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.18.5520     Document Type: Article

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