Interactions between cytoskeletal components during myoplasm rearrangement in ascidian eggs

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-272

  Chiba, Shota ^a   Miki, Yuko ^a   Ashida, Kazunori ^a   Wada, Michiko R ^a   Tanaka, Kimio J ^a   Shibata, Yumiko ^a   Nakamori, Rinna ^a   Nishikata, Takahito ^a  

^a KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Cytoplasmic domain; Cytoskeleton; Myoplasmin C1; p58

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASTER; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033021133     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1999.413433.x     Document Type: Article

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