Tropomyosin isoforms in nonmuscle cells

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 170, Issue , 1997, Pages 1-39

  Lin, Jim J C ^a   Warren, Kerri S ^a,b   Wamboldt, Dawn D ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Lin, Jenny L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin filament dynamics; Caldesmon; Cell shape; Cytokinesis; Intracellular granule movement; Tropomodulin; Tropomyosin isoforms; Unconventional myosins

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALDESMON; ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GRANULE; CELL SHAPE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; EXON; FIBROBLAST; GENE STRUCTURE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YEAST;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031019436     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61619-8     Document Type: Review

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