Identification and characterization of Drosophila homolog of Rho-kinase

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 437-444

  Mizuno, Tomoaki ^a   Amano, Mutsuki ^b   Kaibuchi, Kozo ^b   Nishida, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; In vitro kinase assay; Low stringency PCR; Morphogenesis; Rho effector; Two hybrid analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RHO FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032830092     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00351-0     Document Type: Article

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