VASP protects actin filaments from gelsolin: An in vitro study with implications for platelet actin reorganizations

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 351-364

  Bearer, E L ^a   Prakash, J M ^a   Manchester, R D ^a   Allen, P G ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin polymerization; Gelsolin; Platelet activation and shape change; Poly L proline; Severing; VASP

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; GELSOLIN; PROLINE; VASODILATOR STIMULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LAMELLIPODIUM; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ACTINS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CALCIUM; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GELSOLIN; HUMANS; KINETICS; LISTERIA; MAGNESIUM; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PSEUDOPODIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033661723     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0169(200012)47:4<351::AID-CM8>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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