Myosin VIIa as a common component of cilia and microvilli

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 261-271

  Wolfrum, Uwe ^b   Liu, Xinran ^a   Schmitt, Angelika ^b   Udovichenko, Igor P ^a   Williams, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Actin; Cilium; Microvillus; Myosin; Usher syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLE; COCHLEA; COW; KIDNEY DISTAL TUBULE; MICROVILLUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOPODIUM; USHER SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CATTLE; CILIA; DYNEIN ATPASE; HAIR CELLS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROVILLI; MYOSINS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SYNDROME; TESTIS;

EID: 0031750338     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)40:3<261::AID-CM5>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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