Hyperosmotic stress-induced reorganization of actin bundles in Dictyostelium cells over-expressing cofilin

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 311-324

  Aizawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Katadae, Maiko ^a,b   Maruya, Mikako ^a   Sameshima, Masazumi ^a   Murakami Murofushi, Kimiko ^b   Yahara, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COFILIN; PHALLOIDIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA PRIMERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0032803529     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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