Ena/VASP proteins have an anti-capping independent function in filopodia formation

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2579-2591

  Applewhite, Derek A ^a   Barzik, Melanie ^b   Kojima, Shin Ichiro ^a   Svitkina, Tatyana M ^c   Gertler, Frank B ^b   Borisy, Gary G ^a,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; ENA PROTEIN; G ACTIN; G ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASODILATOR STIMULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CAPPING PHENOMENON; CELL SPREADING; FILOPODIUM; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH CONE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; WOUND HEALING;

ACTIN CAPPING PROTEINS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; HUMANS; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOPODIA; SERINE;

EID: 34347395435     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E06-11-0990     Document Type: Article

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