WASP family proteins: Their evolution and its physiological implications

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2880-2893

  Veltman, Douwe M ^a   Insall, Robert H ^a  

^a BEATSON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; CLATHRIN; NEURAL WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN; PROTEIN JMY; PROTEIN WASP; PROTEIN WHAMM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENDOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN FAMILY;

DICTYOSTELIUM; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955605563     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E10-04-0372     Document Type: Article

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