Drosophila Spire is an actin nucleation factor

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7024, 2005, Pages 382-388

  Quinlan, Margot E ^a   Heuser, John E ^b   Kerkhoff, Eugen ^c   Mullins, R Dyche ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMERS; NUCLEATION;

ACTIN NUCLEATION FACTORS; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; SHAPE DETERMINATION; SPIRE PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; METHENAMINE; PROTEIN SPIRE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; GENE CLUSTER; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 13444292982     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03241     Document Type: Article

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