Specialisation of the tropomyosin composition of actin filaments provides new potential targets for chemotherapy

Current Cancer Drug Targets

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-256

  Stehn, Justine R ^a   Schevzov, Galina ^a,b   O'Neill, Geraldine M ^b   Gunning, Peter W ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actin; Actin binding proteins; Chemotherapy; Isoforms; Microfilaments; Sorting; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOCHALASIN DERIVATIVE; ISOPROTEIN; LATRUNCULIN A; LATRUNCULIN B; MYOSIN; PACLITAXEL DERIVATIVE; TROPOMYOSIN; VINCA ALKALOID;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENTS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN BINDING; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 33646773191     PISSN: 15680096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156800906776842948     Document Type: Review

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