The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein: Forging the link between actin and cell activation

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 192, Issue , 2003, Pages 98-112

  Badour, Karen ^a   Zhang, Jinyi ^a   Siminovitch, Katherine A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSKELETON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ACTINS; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

EID: 0037564489     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2003.00031.x     Document Type: Review

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