Microtubules, but not actin filaments, drive daughter cell budding and cell division in Toxoplasma gondii

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1241-1254

  Shaw, Michael K ^a   Compton, Helen L ^a   Roos, David S ^a   Tilney, Lewis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cell division; Cytoskeleton; Microtubule; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; CYTOCHALASIN D; JASPAMIDE; LATRUNCULIN A; NOCODAZOLE; ORYZALIN; PACLITAXEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CALCIMYCIN; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOCHALASIN D; CYTOSKELETON; DINITROBENZENES; FIBROBLASTS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; IONOPHORES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; NOCODAZOLE; ORGANELLES; PACLITAXEL; SULFANILAMIDES; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES; TOXOPLASMA;

CONOIDEA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0034012487     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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