In vitro microtubule-based organelle transport in wild-type Dictyostelium and cells overexpressing a truncated dynein heavy chain

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 304-314

  Pollock, Nira ^a   Koonce, Michael P ^b   De Hostos, Eugenio L ^c   Vale, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracellular motility; Microtubule based motors; Vesicle transport

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DICTYOSTELIUM; DYNEIN ATPASE; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANES; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; ORGANELLES;

EID: 0031780351     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)40:3<304::AID-CM8>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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