β-Thymosins from marine invertebrates: Primary structure and interaction with actin

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 163-171

  Safer, Daniel ^a   Chowrashi, Prokash K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin polymerization; Echinoderm; Mollusc; Nucleotide exchange; Sequence homology

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; THYMOSIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RABBIT; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; RABBITS; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THYMOSIN;

ANIMALIA; ARBACIA PUNCTULATA; ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030930280     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)38:2<163::AID-CM5>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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