Nowa, a novel protein with minicollagen cys-rich domains, is involved in nematocyst formation in Hydra

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 3923-3934

  Engel, Ulrike ^a   Oezbek, Saut ^a   Engel, Ruth ^a   Petri, Barbara ^a   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^a   Holstein, Thomas W ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly; CTLD; Microtubules; Minicollagen cys rich domain; Nematocyst

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CYSTEINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN NOWA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DISULFIDE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; DISULFIDE BOND; GOLGI COMPLEX; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; COLLAGEN; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDRA; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0037107498     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00084     Document Type: Article

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