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Expression of conventional and unconventional actins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii upon deflagellation and sexual adhesion.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Jun 2003
Hirono Masafumi, Uryu Satomi, Ohara Akio, Kato-Minoura Takako, Kamiya Ritsu
Abstract excerpt
Chlamydomonas has two actin genes, one coding for a conventional actin and the other coding for a highly divergent actin. The divergent actin NAP (for "novel actin-like protein") is expressed only negligibly in wild-type cells but abundantly in a null mutant of conventional actin, the ida5 mutant. The presence of the dormant NAP gene suggests that NAP may also have its own function in wild-type cells under some...
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