The NHL-domain protein Wech is crucial for the integrin-cytoskeleton link

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 422-428

  Löer, Birgit ^a   Bauer, Reinhard ^a   Bornheim, Roland ^a   Grell, Jessica ^a   Kremmer, Elisabeth ^b   Kolanus, Waldemar ^a   Hoch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTEGRIN; CORE PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TALIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; WECH PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; WECH PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MOUSE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL ADHESION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MURINAE;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TALIN;

EID: 43049110021     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1704     Document Type: Article

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