Flightin is essential for thick filament assembly and sarcomere stability in Drosophila flight muscles

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1483-1499

  Reedy, Mary C ^a   Bullard, Belinda ^b   Vigoreaux, Jim O ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Flightin; Insect flight muscle; Muscle mutant; Myosin; Thick filaments

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLIGHTIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYOSIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLIGHT; GENE MUTATION; INSECT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FERTILITY; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNE SERA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; PHENOTYPE; PUPA; SARCOMERES; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0034739846     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.151.7.1483     Document Type: Article

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