RhoA and Rac1 GTPases mediate the dynamic rearrangement of actin in peripheral glia

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1825-1835

  Sepp, Katharine J ^a   Auld, Vanessa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; Drosophila; GTPase; Microtubule; Peripheral glia; Rac; Rho

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN CDC42; RAC PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FASCICULATION; FILOPODIUM; GLIA CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE SHEATH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSGENE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; GENES, REPORTER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROGLIA; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038636056     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00413     Document Type: Article

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