Actin dynamics: Assembly and disassembly of actin networks

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 24, 2000, Pages R891-R895

  Wear, Martin A ^a   Schafer, Dorothy A ^a   Cooper, John A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; POLYMER; PROTEIN; WAS PROTEIN, HUMAN; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

EID: 0034649632     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00845-9     Document Type: Review

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