Properties of an Ezrin Mutant Defective in F-actin Binding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 385, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1015-1031

  Saleh, Henri S ^a   Merkel, Ulrike ^a   Geißler, Katja J ^a   Sperka, Tobias ^a   Sechi, Antonio ^b   Breithaupt, Constanze ^c   Morrison, Helen ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cytoskeleton; membrane; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; EZRIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MOESIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RADIXIN; RAS PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 58149349708     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.11.051     Document Type: Article

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