Local photorelease of caged thymosin β4 in locomoting keratocytes causes cell turning

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1035-1047

  Roy, Partha ^a   Rajfur, Zenon ^b   Jones, David ^c   Marriott, Gerard ^a   Loew, Leslie ^a   Jacobson, Ken ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caged compounds; Cell locomotion; FRAP; Keratocyte; Thymosin 4

Indexed keywords

THYMOSIN BETA4;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSPORT; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FIBROBLAST; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIMULATION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

3T3 CELLS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; BIOPOLYMERS; CARBAMATES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; DEXTRANS; DIFFUSION; FISHES; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTES; KINETICS; MICE; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PHOTOLYSIS; SOFTWARE; THYMOSIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035947763     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.153.5.1035     Document Type: Article

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