The nucleoskeleton: Lamins and actin are major players in essential nuclear functions

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 358-366

  Shumaker, Dale K ^a   Kuczmarski, Edward R ^a   Goldman, Robert D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; LAMIN;

CHROMATIN; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 0037684765     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(03)00050-4     Document Type: Review

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