Tubulin glycylation and glutamylation deficiencies in unconventional insect axonemes

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 226-236

  Mencarelli, Caterina ^a   Caroti, Daniela ^a   Bré, Marie Hélène ^b   Levilliers, Nicolette ^b   Dallai, Romano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Axoneme organization; Glutamylation; Glycylation; Posttranslational modification

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ISOPROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; EVOLUTION; GLUTAMYLATION; GLYCYLATION; INSECT; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NEOPTERA; NONHUMAN; ORDO; PALAEOPTERA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SPERMATOZOON; TETRAHYMENA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACYLATION; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; INSECTS; MALE; SPERM TAIL; TUBULIN;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; METAZOA; NEOPTERA; PALAEOPTERA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 23044435491     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20081     Document Type: Article

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