Acting like actin: The dynamics of the nematode major sperm protein (MSP) cytoskeleton indicate a push-pull mechanism for amoeboid cell motility

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-12

  Roberts, Thomas M ^a   Stewart, Murray ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL PROTEIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOCYTOSIS; EUKARYOTE; NEMATODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SPERM;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ASCARIS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETON; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSEUDOPODIA; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034599633     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.1.7     Document Type: Short Survey

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