The Three‐Dimensional Structure of the Actin Filament Revisited

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 483, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 100-119

  AEBI, UELI ^a,b   MILLONIG, ROBERT ^a,b   SALVO, HOPE ^a   ENGEL, ANDREAS ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; MUSCLE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACTINS; CYTOSKELETON; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0022924035     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb34502.x     Document Type: Article

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