Ena/VASP Proteins: Regulators of the Actin Cytoskeleton and Cell Migration

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 19, Issue , 2003, Pages 541-564

  Krause, Matthias ^a   Dent, Erik W ^a   Bear, James E ^a   Loureiro, Joseph J ^a   Gertler, Frank B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

EVL; Filopodia; Focal adhesion; Lamellipodia; Mena

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; F ACTIN; VASODILATOR STIMULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN; VINCULIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOSKELETON; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CAPZ ACTIN CAPPING PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL MOVEMENT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

ENA; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MENA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345687479     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.19.050103.103356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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