Keratocyte-like locomotion in amiB-null Dictyostelium cells

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-27

  Asano, Yukako ^a   Mizuno, Takafumi ^a   Kon, Takahide ^b   Nagasaki, Akira ^a   Sutoh, Kazuo ^b   Uyeda, Taro Q P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Arp2; Cell polarity; GRE model; Myosin II

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ALPHA TUBULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYOSIN II; PHALLOIDIN; RHODAMINE;

AGGREGATION MINUS B GENE; AMIB GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MUTANT; CELL POLARITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CYTOSKELETON; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DICTYOSTELIUM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 4444376844     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20015     Document Type: Article

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