Spire contains actin binding domains and is related to ascidian posterior end mark-5

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5267-5274

  Wellington, Andrea ^a   Emmons, Steve ^a   James, Brian ^a   Calley, John ^a   Grover, Melissa ^a   Tolias, Peter ^b   Manseau, Lynn ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; Oogenesis; Rho; Spire

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOCHALASIN D; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PHENOTYPE; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033377085     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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