To be or not to be assembled: Progressing into nuclear actin filaments

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 693-697

  Grosse, Robert ^a   Vartiainen, Maria K ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84886314384     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3681     Document Type: Article

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