Mutations in the relay loop region result in dominant-negative inhibition of myosin II function in dictyostelium

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1099-1105

  Tsiavaliaris, Georgios ^a,d   Fujita Becker, Setsuko ^a   Batra, Renu ^a,e   Levitsky, Dmitrii I ^b   Kill, F Jon ^a,f   Geeves, Michael A ^c   Manstein, Dietmar J ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BACH INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN II; ACTIN; LIGAND; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; FRUITING BODY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CELL DIVISION; DICTYOSTELIUM; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTATION; MYOSIN TYPE II; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0036865662     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf214     Document Type: Article

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