Substitution of flight muscle-specific actin by human β-cytoplasmic actin in the indirect flight muscle of Drosophila

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3627-3639

  Brault, Véronique ^a   Reedy, Mary C ^b   Sauder, Ursula ^a   Kammerer, Richard A ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a   Schoenenberger, Cora Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cytoplasmic actin; Actin; Isoform; Myofibril; Thin filament

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BETA ACTIN; MYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT MUSCLE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SARCOMERE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THIN FILAMENT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032717712     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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