Drosophila melanogaster muscle LIM protein and alpha-actinin function together to stabilize muscle cytoarchitecture: A potential role for Mlp84B in actin-crosslinking

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 304-316

  Clark, Kathleen A ^a,b,c   Kadrmas, Julie L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin bundling; Myopathy; Titin; Z line; Zasp

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA ACTININ; LIM PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLP84B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LETHALITY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SARCOMERE;

ACTIN BUNDLING; MYOPATHY; TITIN; Z-LINE; ZASP;

ACTININ; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; LARVA; LIM DOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE CELLS; MUSCLE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84880619169     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.21106     Document Type: Article

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