The profile of profilins

Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology

Volumn 159, Issue , 2007, Pages 131-149

  Jockusch, B M ^a   Murk, K ^a   Rothkegel, M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; LIGAND; LIPID; PEPTIDE; POLYPROLINE; PROFILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; DICTYOSTELIUM; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DICTYOSTELIUM; HUMANS; LIGANDS; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROFILINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 34548799781     PISSN: 03034240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/112_2007_704     Document Type: Article

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