Apical localization of actin patches and vacuolar dynamics in Ashbya gossypii depend on the WASP homolog Wal1p

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4947-4958

  Walther, Andrea ^a   Wendland, Jürgen ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Endocytosis; Morphogenesis; Polar growth; Wiscott aldrich syndrome protein

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DYE; FUNGAL ENZYME; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; ASHBYA GOSSYPII; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL MOTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SWELLING; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSOME; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH RATE; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ACTINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHITIN; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOMES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

EREMOTHECIUM; EREMOTHECIUM GOSSYPII; FUNGI;

EID: 8744281478     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01377     Document Type: Article

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