The aspergillus nidulans kinesin-3 UncA motor moves vesicles along a subpopulation of microtubules

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 673-684

  Zekert, Nadine ^a   Fischer, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KINESIN; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 3; KINESIN 7; PROTEIN UNCA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ENDOSOME; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYPHAE; KINESIN; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TYROSINE;

EID: 61949477346     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E08-07-0685     Document Type: Article

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