WHAMY is a novel actin polymerase promoting myoblast fusion, macrophage cell motility and sensory organ development in Drosophila

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 604-620

  Brinkmann, Klaus ^a   Winterhoff, Moritz ^b   Önel, Susanne Filiz ^c   Schultz, Jörg ^d   Faix, Jan ^b   Bogdan, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin assembly; Cell migration; Cellular immune response; JMY; Macrophage; Myoblast fusion; Sensory organ development; WASP; WAVE; WHAMM

Indexed keywords

ACTIN POLYMERASE; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; ENZYME; NEURAL WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN; PROTEIN WHAMY; RAC1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; WHAMY PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIB DOMAIN; DROSOPHILA; FILOPODIUM; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; LAMELLIPODIUM; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MACROPHAGE; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MACROPHAGES; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLASTS; ORGANOGENESIS; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

EID: 84957622179     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.179325     Document Type: Article

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