Caenorhabditis elegans UNC-45 is a component of muscle thick filaments and colocalizes with myosin heavy chain B, but not myosin heavy chain A

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 375-384

  Ao, Wanyuan ^a   Pilgrim, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CRO1 SHE4; Myo 3; Myogenesis; Tetracopeptide repeats; Unc 54

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE MUTATION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034707661     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.148.2.375     Document Type: Article

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