Molecular motors: Forty years of interdisciplinary research

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3936-3939

  Spudich, James A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN II; MYOSIN V; MYOSIN VI;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALPHA HELIX; BINDING SITE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL DIVISION; CELL GRANULE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENERGY TRANSFER; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HEART FAILURE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NITELLA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES; SUDDEN DEATH;

ACTINS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CALIFORNIA; CELL BIOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENGLAND; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MYOSINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80655149442     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E11-05-0447     Document Type: Review

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