M-Sec: Emerging secrets of tunneling nanotube formation

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 231-233

  Ohno, Hiroshi ^a   Hase, Koji ^a   Kimura, Shunsuke ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exocyst complex; F actin; M Sec; RalA; Tunneling nanotube; Virus infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054945881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.3.3.11242     Document Type: Article

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