Actin isoform expression patterns during mammalian development and in pathology: Insights from mouse models

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 798-815

  Tondeleir, Davina ^a,b   Vandamme, Drieke ^a,b   Vandekerckhove, Joël ^a,b   Ampe, Christophe ^a,b   Lambrechts, Anja ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Actin isoform switching; Disease model; Muscle development

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALPHA CARDIAC ACTIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; ALPHA TROPOMYOSIN; BETA CYTOPLASMIC ACTIN; GAMMA CYTOPLASMIC ACTIN; GAMMA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL VIABILITY; CENTRAL CORE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL FIBER TYPE DISPROPORTION; CYTOSKELETON; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; DYNAMICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LETHALITY; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; MAMMAL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACTINS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; AORTIC ANEURYSM; DEAFNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; MYOPATHIES, STRUCTURAL, CONGENITAL; MYOPATHY, CENTRAL CORE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SARCOMERES;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 70349433679     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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