Filamins in mechanosensing and signaling

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 227-246

  Razinia, Ziba ^a   Mäkelä, Toni ^a   Ylänne, Jari ^a   Calderwood, David A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Actin binding protein; Cytoskeleton; Extracellular matrix; Mechanosensor; Mechanotransduction

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FILAMIN; ION CHANNEL; RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84861394025     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-050511-102252     Document Type: Review

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