Mechanical signaling in networks of motor and cytoskeletal proteins

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 217-234

  Howard, Jonathon ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonemal beat; Bidirectional motion; Cell motility; Spontaneous oscillations; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ACCELERATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLAGELLUM; FLYING; FORCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSECT; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MUSCLE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VELOCITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS;

EID: 67650309799     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133732     Document Type: Review

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