Cdc42-induced actin filaments are protected from capping protein

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 979-982

  Huang, Minzhou ^a   Yang, Changsong ^a   Schafer, Dorothy A ^b   Cooper, John A ^b   Higgs, Henry N ^c   Zigmond, Sally H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033539020     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80428-X     Document Type: Article

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