Actin nucleation: Cortactin caught in the act

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2002, Pages

  Higgs, Henry N ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; ACTR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ACTR3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CORTACTIN; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; CTTN PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEURAL WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; WASL PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MICROFILAMENT; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 3; ACTINS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CORTACTIN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN, NEURONAL;

EID: 0037015293     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01101-6     Document Type: Review

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