Defective flagellar assembly and length regulation in LF3 null mutants in Chlamydomonas

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 597-607

  Tam, Lai Wa ^a   Dentler, William L ^b   Lefebvre, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cilia; Intraflagellar transport; Organelle size control; Unequal length flagella

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN LF3P; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LF3 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLAGELLA; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0242509225     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200307143     Document Type: Article

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