Role of calcium-dependent actin-bundling proteins: Characterization of Dictyostelium mutants lacking fimbrin and the 34-kilodalton protein

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 210-231

  Pikzack, Claudia ^a   Prassler, Josef ^b   Furukawa, Ruth ^c   Fechheimer, Marcus ^c   Rivero, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium regulation; Cytoskeleton; Development; Dictyostelium; Fimbrin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALCIUM ION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP; FIMBRIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL SIZE; DICTYOSTELIUM; EF HAND MOTIFS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDOLES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; PHAGOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOPODIA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 28744459273     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20098     Document Type: Article

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