Spatial Guidance of Cell Asymmetry: Septin GTPases Show the Way

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Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-203

  Spiliotis, Elias T ^a   Gladfelter, Amy S ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Diffusion barriers; F actin; Fungal and animal morphogenesis; GTPases; Membrane domains; Microtubules; Scaffolds; Septins

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SEPTIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ALGA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CILIATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME BINDING; EPITHELIUM CELL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; EXOCYTOSIS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MAMMAL CELL; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; T LYMPHOCYTE; USTILAGO MAYDIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; HUMANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEPTINS;

EID: 84855950538     PISSN: 13989219     EISSN: 16000854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2011.01268.x     Document Type: Review

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