PAR proteins diffuse freely across the anterior-posterior boundary in polarized C. elegans embryos

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 583-594

  Goehring, Nathan W ^a   Hoege, Carsten ^a   Grill, Stephan W ^a,b   Hyman, Anthony A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN PAR2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN PAR6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOPLASM; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DIFFUSION; EMBRYO; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETON; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79956193666     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201011094     Document Type: Article

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