Intraflagellar transport particle size scales inversely with flagellar length: Revisiting the balance-point length control model

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-89

  Engel, Benjamin D ^a   Ludington, William B ^a   Marshall, Wallace F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; INTRAFLAGELLAR TRANSPORT 27 PROTEIN; KINESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RAB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL KINETICS; CELL SIZE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROKYMOGRAPHY; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; PH; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; FLAGELLA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINESIN; KINETICS; KYMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 70449709536     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200812084     Document Type: Article

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