Cloning and expression of kinesins from the thermophilic fungus Thermomyces lanuginosus

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2705-2710

  Sakowicz, Roman ^a,c   Farlow, Sam ^a   Goldstein, Lawrence S B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Cytokinetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracellular motility; Kinesin; Microtubules; Motor protein; Thermomyces

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; KINESIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; THERMOMYCES; THERMOMYCES LANUGINOSUS;

EID: 0033453274     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.12.2705     Document Type: Article

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