Actin: Its cumbersome pilgrimage through cellular compartments

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 695-704

  Schleicher, Michael ^a   Jockusch, Brigitte M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin history; Chromatin remodelling; Cytoplasmic motility; Nucleocytoplasmic traffick; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA ACTIN; LIGAND;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 44149092116     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-008-0430-y     Document Type: Review

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