Defining actin filament length in striated muscle: Rulers and caps or dynamic stability?

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 14, Issue , 1998, Pages 487-525

  Littlefield, R ^a   Fowler, V M ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

capZ; Myofibril; Myosin; Nebulin; Titin; Tropomodulin; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

ACTININ; CONNECTIN; NEBULIN; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSS LINKING; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RNA CAPPING; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIN FILAMENT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; PROTEIN KINASES; SARCOMERES; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032407540     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.14.1.487     Document Type: Review

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