Genetic studies of spectrin: New life for a ghost protein

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 875-878

  Dubreuil, Ronald R ^a   Grushko, Tatyana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; KARST PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SPECTRIN;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; SPECTRIN;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0032212498     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199811)20:11<875::AID-BIES1>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Review

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