Plant and animal profilins are functionally equivalent and stabilize microfilaments in living animal cells

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-90

  Rothkegel, Martin ^a   Mayboroda, Oleg ^a,b   Rohde, Manfred ^c   Wucherpfennig, Carmen ^a   Valenta, Rudolf ^d   Jockusch, Brigitte M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Microfilament dynamics; Plant profilin; Profilin overexpression

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; F ACTIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROFILIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LASER MICROSCOPY; MICROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROFILINS; TRANSFECTION; TREES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 9044250098     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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