Preferential localization of the endocytic internalization machinery to hyphal tips underlies polarization of the actin cytoskeleton in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 891-905

  Araujo Bazán, Lidia ^a   Peñalva, Miguel A ^a   Espeso, Eduardo A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; F ACTIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ABPA; PROTEIN AMPA; PROTEIN SLAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONIDIUM; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOCYTOSIS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HALF LIFE TIME; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTINS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOCYTOSIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPHAE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 38449107207     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06102.x     Document Type: Article

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