The calcium activation of gelsolin: Insights from the 3 Å structure of the G4-G6/actin complex

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 324, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 691-702

  Choe, Han ^a,e   Burtnick, Leslie D ^b   Mejillano, Marisan ^c   Yin, Helen L ^c   Robinson, Robert C ^a,d   Choe, Senyon ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Actin; Activation; Calcium; Gelsolin; Severing

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ION; GELSOLIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MOTION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036923313     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01131-2     Document Type: Article

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