Formins: Bringing new insights to the organization of actin cytoskeleton

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2937-2943

  Guo, Chunqing ^a   Ren, Haiyun ^a  

^a Beijing Normal University   (China)

Author keywords

Actin binding proteins; Actin cytoskeleton; Formin

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33846443245     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2214-x     Document Type: Review

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