Purification and biochemical characterization of actin from Caenorhabditis elegans: Its difference from rabbit muscle actin in the interaction with nematode ADF/cofilin

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 128-136

  Ono, Shoichiro ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; ADF cofilin; Nematode; Polymerization

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALPHA ACTIN; COFILIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; G ACTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CATTLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032991056     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1999)43:2<128::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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