Filament assembly by spire: Key residues and concerted actin binding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 427, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 824-839

  Rasson, Amy S ^a   Bois, Justin S ^a,b   Pham, Duy Stephen L ^a   Yoo, Haneul ^a   Quinlan, Margot E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; Nucleation; Spir; WH2

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; LATRUNCULIN B; NEURAL WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; SPIRE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERTANT; STEADY STATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84922389263     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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