Mammalian septins: Dynamic heteromers with roles in cellular morphogenesis and compartmentalization

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 287-299

  Hall, Peter A ^a,b   Russell, Se Hilary ^c  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cytoskeleton; diffusion barrier; disease; filament; membrane; polarity; regulation; septin; splicing; symmetry

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SEPTIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANCER GROWTH; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; DNA DAMAGE; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; SUMOYLATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UBIQUITINATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEPTINS;

EID: 82755189600     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: 10969896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.3024     Document Type: Review

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