Leiomodin is an actin filament nucleator in muscle cells

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5873, 2008, Pages 239-243

  Chereau, David ^a,e   Boczkowska, Malgorzata ^b   Skwarek Maruszewska, Aneta ^c   Fujiwara, Ikuko ^d   Hayes, David B ^a   Rebowski, Grzegorz ^b   Lappalainen, Pekka ^c   Pollard, Thomas D ^d   Dominguez, Roberto ^b  

^a BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ELAN PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN FILAMENT NUCLEATOR; LEIOMODIN; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; MUSCLE; NUCLEATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SARCOMERE;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RABBITS; RATS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SARCOMERES; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 42049090628     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155313     Document Type: Article

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