Stabilization and remodeling of the membrane skeleton during lens fiber cell differentiation and maturation

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 257-270

  Lee, Andria ^a   Fischer, Robert S ^a   Fowler, Velia M ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Lens cytoskeleton; Spectrin; Tropomodulin; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIUM CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; LENS EPITHELIUM; MEMBRANE BINDING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICK EMBRYO; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RABBITS; SPECTRIN; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034007480     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(200003)217:3<257::AID-DVDY4>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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