Going vertical: Functional role and working principles of the protein Inscuteable in asymmetric cell divisions

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 4039-4046

  Culurgioni, Simone ^a   Mapelli, Marina ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cell division; Cellular polarity; Inscuteable; LGN; NuMA; Spindle orientation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INSCUTEABLE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN LGN; PROTEIN NUMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHICKENS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MICE; NEUROGLIA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINDLE APPARATUS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84887122798     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1319-z     Document Type: Review

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