SF-assemblin in Chlamydomonas: Sequence conservation and localization during the cell cycle

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 190-201

  Lechtreck, Karl Ferdinand ^a   Silflow, Carolyn D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

centrosome; Chlamydomonas eugametos; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; microtubule associated fiber; mitosis

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROSOME; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS EUGAMETOS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0031041361     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)36:2<190::AID-CM8>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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