Alternatively spliced N-terminal exons in tropomyosin isoforms do not act as autonomous targeting signals

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 286-293

  Martin, Claire ^a,b   Schevzov, Galina ^a   Gunning, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; Localisation; Sorting; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS FIBER;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EXONS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; MICE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 77951975127     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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