The WASP-Arp2/3 pathway: Genetic insights

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 174-181

  Vartiainen, Maria K ^a   Machesky, Laura M ^b  

^a THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abi; Abl interactor; GBD; GTPase binding domain; RNA interference; RNAi; Scar; suppressor of cAMP receptor; VCA; Verprolin homology connecting acidic domain; WAS; WASP; WAVE; Wiskott Aldrich syndrome; Wiskott Aldrich syndrome protein

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSPORT; CYTOKINESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINOCYTOSIS; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 3; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 2942560560     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2004.02.004     Document Type: Review

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