Cellular chirality arising from the self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 445-457

  Tee, Yee Han ^a   Shemesh, Tom ^b   Thiagarajan, Visalatchi ^a   Hariadi, Rizal Fajar ^c   Anderson, Karen L ^d   Page, Christopher ^d   Volkmann, Niels ^d   Hanein, Dorit ^d   Sivaramakrishnan, Sivaraj ^c   Kozlov, Michael M ^e   Bershadsky, Alexander D ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; ALPHA ACTININ 1; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN IIA; ACTININ; ACTN1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CELLULAR CHIRALITY; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTRACTION STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIAL FIBER; TRANSVERSE FIBER; CELL LINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTININ; ACTOMYOSIN; CELL LINE; CELL SHAPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; NONMUSCLE MYOSIN TYPE IIA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84925945544     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb3137     Document Type: Article

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