The sarcomeric cytoskeleton: Who picks up the strain?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-46

  Gautel, Mathias ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; CONNECTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MYOMESIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NEBULIN; OBSCURIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL POLARITY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; SARCOMERES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79951552050     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2010.12.001     Document Type: Review

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