Septins: The fourth component of the cytoskeleton

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 183-194

  Mostowy, Serge ^a,b,c,d   Cossart, Pascale ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c USC 2020   (France)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEPTIN;

CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CYTOSKELETON; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEPTINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84857457272     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3284     Document Type: Review

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