MOESIN crosslinks actin and cell membrane in Drosophila oocytes and is required for OSKAR anchoring

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2060-2065

  Jankovics, Ferenc ^a   Sinka, Rita ^a   Lukácsovich, Tamás ^a   Erdélyi, Miklós ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOESIN, DROSOPHILA; OSKAR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036898831     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01256-3     Document Type: Article

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