Force-velocity relationships in actin-myosin interactions causing cytoplasmic streaming in algal cells

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1971-1976

  Sugi, Haruo ^a   Chaen, Shigeru ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin cables; Actin myosin sliding; Centrifuge microscope; Chara corallina; Cytoplasmic myosin; Cytoplasmic streaming; Nitellopsis obtusa

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ALGA; CELL MOTION; CENTRIFUGATION; CYTOLOGY; KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ALGAE; CENTRIFUGATION; CYTOPLASMIC STREAMING; KINETICS; MYOSINS;

ALGAE; CHARA CORALLINA; CHLOROPHYTA; CORALLINA; EUKARYOTA; NITELLOPSIS OBTUSA;

EID: 0038037717     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00239     Document Type: Review

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