Plant formin AtFH5 is an evolutionarily conserved actin nucleator involved in cytokinesis

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 374-380

  Ingouff, Mathieu ^a,b   Fitz Gerald, Jonathan N ^a,d   Guérin, Christophe ^b   Robert, Hélène ^a,e   Sørensen, Mikael Blom ^a,f   Van Damme, Daniel ^c   Geelen, Danny ^c   Blanchoin, Laurent ^b   Berger, Frédéric ^a,d  

^a Claud Bernard University Lyon 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; ENDOSPERM; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST CELL;

ACTINS; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKINESIS; EXONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 17344373486     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1238     Document Type: Article

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