Ezrin promotes morphogenesis of apical microvilli and basal infoldings in retinal pigment epithelium

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1533-1547

  Bonilha, Vera Lúcia ^a   Finnemann, Silvia C ^a   Rodriguez Boulan, Enrique ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense; Cortical cytoskeleton; Epithelia; Ezrin radixin moesin proteins; Retinal development

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EZRIN; MOESIN; RADIXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROVILLI; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033611058     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.147.7.1533     Document Type: Article

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