β-Filagenin, a newly identified protein coassembling with myosin and paramyosin in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 347-353

  Liu, Feizhou ^a   Bauer, Christopher C ^a   Ortiz, Irving ^a   Cook, Richard G ^a   Schmid, Michael F ^a   Epstein, Henry F ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA FILAGENIN; MYOSIN; PARAMYOSIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOSINS; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032567718     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.2.347     Document Type: Article

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