Cytoplasmic dynein and dynactin are required for the transport of microtubules into the axon

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 391-401

  Ahmad, Fridoon J ^a   Echeverri, Christophe J ^b   Vallee, Richard B ^b   Baas, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NOCODAZOLE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINBLASTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; DYNEIN ATPASE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032567765     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.2.391     Document Type: Article

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