Rho-kinase phosphorylates COOH-terminal threonines of ezrin/radixin/moesin (ERM) proteins and regulates their head-to-tail association

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 647-657

  Matsui, Takeshi ^a   Maeda, Masato ^a   Doi, Yoshinori ^a   Yonemura, Shigenobu ^a   Amano, Mutsuki ^b   Kaibuchi, Kozo ^b   Tsukita, Sachiko ^a   Tsukita, Shoichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; EZRIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; MOESIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOPEPTIDE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RADIXIN; RHO KINASE; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

3T3 CELLS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOOD PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTHREONINE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032498528     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.3.647     Document Type: Article

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