The fission yeast cytokinesis formin Cdc12p is a barbed end actin filament capping protein gated by profilin

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 875-887

  Kovar, David R ^a   Kuhn, Jeffrey R ^a   Tichy, Andrea L ^a   Pollard, Thomas D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin cables; Annealing; Capping protein; Contractile ring; S. pombe

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN FILAMENT CAPPING PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MONOMER; PROFILIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN CDC12P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ADDITION REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DISSOCIATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FETAL PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERS; PROFILINS; PROLINE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0037780973     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200211078     Document Type: Article

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