Moesin and its activating kinase Slik are required for cortical stability and microtubule organization in mitotic cells

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 739-746

  Carreno, Sébastien ^a,c   Kouranti, Ilektra ^a   Glusman, Edith Szafer ^b   Fuller, Margaret T ^b   Echard, Arnaud ^a   Payre, François ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EZRIN; MOESIN; RADIXIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMETAPHASE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 40849113363     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200709161     Document Type: Article

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