Cortexillins, major determinants of cell shape and size, are actin- bundling proteins with a parallel coiled-coil tail

Cell

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 631-642

  Faix, Jan ^a   Steinmetz, Michel ^b   Boves, Heike ^a   Kammerer, Richard A ^b   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^a   Mintert, Ursula ^a   Murphy, John ^a   Stock, Alexander ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^b   Gerisch, Günther ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 16044367114     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80136-1     Document Type: Article

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