Molecular biological approaches to study myosin functions in cytokinesis of Dictyostelium

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 136-144

  Uyeda, Taro Q P ^a   Yumura, Shigehiko ^b  

^a NATL INST FOR ADV INTERDISC RES   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contractile ring; Cytokinesis; Cytoskeletal flow; Mutant

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE RING; CORTICAL CYTOSKELETON; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETAL; CYTOSKELETAL FLOW; DICTYOSTELIUM; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; LOCALISATION; MUTANT; MYOSIN II;

PROTEINS;

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034656370     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(20000415)49:2<136::AID-JEMT5>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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