Beyond polymer polarity: How the cytoskeleton builds a polarized cell

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 860-873

  Li, Rong ^a   Gundersen, Gregg G ^b  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN II;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROSOME; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULES;

EID: 54549102288     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2522     Document Type: Review

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