Vibrations in Microtubules

Journal of Biological Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 171-179

  Pokorny J ^a,b   Jelinek F ^b   Trkal, V ^b   Lamprecht, I ^c   Holzel R ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dispersion relation; Energy supply to cyto skeleton; Fr hlich's condensation in cytoskeleton; Hydrolysis of ATP; Hydrolysis of GTP; Microtubule translation symmetry; Nonlinearity in cytoskeleton; Vibrations in actin filaments; Vibrations in microtubules

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000635510     PISSN: 00920606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005092601078     Document Type: Article

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