All roads lead to actin: The intimate relationship between TCR signaling and the cytoskeleton

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 191, Issue , 2003, Pages 220-236

  Fuller, Claudette L ^a   Braciale, Vivian L ^b   Samelson, Lawrence E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADAPTOR PROTEIN; COLCHICINE; CYTOCHALASIN D; INTEGRIN; PROTEIN KINASE ZAP 70; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0037304542     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2003.00004.x     Document Type: Review

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