The cytoplasmic face of cell contact sites

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 255-262

  Pokutta, Sabine ^a   Weis, William I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; CATENIN; EZRIN; F ACTIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 2; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 3; LEUKOSIALIN; MOESIN; RADIXIN; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN 3; UVOMORULIN; VINCULIN;

BINDING SITE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036535898     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(02)00318-4     Document Type: Review

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