Cofilin-2, a novel type of cofilin, is expressed specifically at aggregation stage of Dictyostelium discoideum development

Genes to Cells

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 913-921

  Aizawa, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Kishi, Yoshiro ^a   Iida, Kazuko ^a   Sameshima, Masazumi ^a   Yahara, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COFILIN; COFILIN 1; COFILIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DEVELOPMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PH; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VISCOSITY; YEAST;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; COFILIN 2; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; YEASTS;

EID: 0034760203     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2001.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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