Basal body and flagellum mutants reveal a rotational constraint of the central pair microtubules in the axonemes of trypanosomes

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2405-2413

  Gadelha, Catarina ^a   Wickstead, Bill ^a   McKean, Paul G ^b   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axoneme; Basal body; Central pair; Delta tubulin; Flagellum; Paraflagellar rod

Indexed keywords

GAMMA TUBULIN; PARAFLAGELLAR ROD PROTEIN 2; PARKIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FLAGELLATE; KINETOSOME; MICROTUBULE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CILIA; FLAGELLA; KINETOPLASTIDA; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; ORGANELLES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TUBULIN;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33746092106     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02969     Document Type: Article

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