Intracellular localization and dynamics of myosin-II and myosin-IC in live Acanthamoeba by transient transfection of EGFP fusion proteins

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 4993-5002

  Kong, Hyun Hee ^a,c   Pollard, Thomas D ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Green flourescent protein; Microscopy; Motility; Myosin; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN II; PROFILIN; RHODAMINE; SERINE; UBIQUITIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL VACUOLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEAD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; TAIL;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MYOSIN TYPE I; MYOSIN TYPE II; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; PROTOZOA; VECTORS;

EID: 0037115637     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00159     Document Type: Article

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