Specific requirement for two ADF/cofilin isoforms in distinct actin-dependent processes in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2073-2085

  Ono, Kanako ^a   Parast, Mana ^a   Alberico, Christine ^a   Benian, Guy M ^a   Ono, Shoichiro ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin dynamics; Cytokinesis; Embryogenesis; Myofibrils; Thin filaments

Indexed keywords

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; COFILIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN UNC 60A; PROTEIN UNC 60B; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; LETHALITY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VULVA;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; DESTRIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMOZYGOTE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, GENETIC; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037900004     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00421     Document Type: Article

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