How plants LINC the SUN to KASH

Nucleus (United States)

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Xiao ^a   Meier, Iris ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; KASH; LINC complex; Nuclear envelope; Plant; SUN

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASMIC DYNEIN; DYNACTIN; F ACTIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN KASH; PROTEIN SUN; PROTEIN SUN1; PROTEIN SUN2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SHAPE; OPISTHOKONTA; PLANT; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TELOMERE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; FUNGI; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR MATRIX; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84892662840     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.24088     Document Type: Review

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