Human subtelomeric WASH genes encode a new subclass of the WASP family

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2477-2485

  Linardopoulou, Elena V ^a   Parghi, Sean S ^a   Friedman, Cynthia ^a   Osborn, Gregory E ^a   Parkhurst, Susan M ^a   Trask, Barbara J ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; PROTEIN WASH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; ENTAMOEBA; GENE DUPLICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TELOMERE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ENTAMOEBA; PRIMATES;

ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELOMERE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN FAMILY;

EID: 37749037456     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030237     Document Type: Article

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