The 135-kDa actin-bundling protein from lily pollen tubes arranges F-actin into bundles with uniform polarity

Planta

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 264-266

  Yokota, Etsuo ^a   Shimmen, Teruo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Actin bundling protein; Lilium (pollen tube); Pollen tube

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOPLASM; POLLEN; STOICHIOMETRY;

LILIUM LONGIFLORUM;

EID: 0032867689     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050631     Document Type: Article

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