Dispensability of the actin-binding site and spectrin repeats for targeting sarcomeric α-actinin into maturing Z bands in vivo: Implications for in vitro binding studies

Developmental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 291-308

  Lin, Z ^a   Hijikata, T ^b   Zhang, Z ^a   Choi, J ^c   Holtzer, S ^c   Sweeney, H L ^c   Holtzer, H ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY CANCER HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTE   (China)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nemaline like bodies; Sarcomeric actinin; Titin; Transfection; Z bands

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALPHA ACTININ; CONNECTIN; SPECTRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; EMBRYO; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TARGETING; SARCOMERE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032528461     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8920     Document Type: Article

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