An actin-filament-binding interface on the Arp2/3 complex is critical for nucleation and branch stability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 8159-8164

  Goley, Erin D ^a,c   Rammohan, Aravind ^b,d   Znameroski, Elizabeth A ^a   Firat Karalar, Elif Nur ^a   Sept, David ^b,e   Welch, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Modeling and Simulation ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin branching; Cytoskeleton

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; AMINO ACID; F ACTIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 3; ACTINS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

EID: 77952417606     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911668107     Document Type: Article

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