Calpain-6, a microtubule-stabilizing protein, regulates Rac1 activity and cell motility through interaction with GEF-H1

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1214-1223

  Tonami, Kazuo ^a,b   Kurihara, Yukiko ^a   Arima, Satoshi ^a   Nishiyama, Koichi ^a   Uchijima, Yasunobu ^a   Asano, Tomoichiro ^c   Sorimachi, Hiroyuki ^b   Kurihara, Hiroki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Calpain; Cell motility; Microtubule; Rac1

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPAIN 6; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GEF H1; RAC1 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SPREADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAMELLIPODIUM; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CALPAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MICE; MICROTUBULES; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PSEUDOPODIA; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

EID: 79953139095     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.072561     Document Type: Article

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