A new internal mode in F-actin helps explain the remarkable evolutionary conservation of actin's sequence and structure

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 570-575

  Galkin, Vitold E ^a   VanLoock, Margaret S ^a   Orlova, Albina ^a   Egelman, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DESTRIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0037006805     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00742-X     Document Type: Article

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