Tropomyosin isoforms and reagents

BioArchitecture

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 135-164

  Schevzov, Galina ^a   Whittaker, Shane P ^a   Fath, Thomas ^b   Lin, Jim J C ^c   Gunning, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Cytoskeleton; Isoforms; Multi gene family; Reagents; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPOMYOSIN 1 GENE; TROPOMYOSIN 2 GENE; TROPOMYOSIN 3 GENE; TROPOMYOSIN 4 GENE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84992240335     PISSN: 19490992     EISSN: 1949100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/bioa.1.4.17897     Document Type: Article

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