Yeast myosin II: A new subclass of unconventional conventional myosins?

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 195-200

  May, Karen M ^a   Win, Thein Z ^a   Hyams, Jeremy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN;

CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031881163     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)39:3<195::AID-CM2>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Review

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