Mechanisms blocking microtubule minus end assembly: Evidence for a tubulin dimer-binding protein

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 324-335

  Spittle, Cynthia S ^a   Cassimeris, Lynne ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

minus ends; sea urchin eggs; tubulin dimer binding protein

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SEA URCHIN;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SEA URCHINS; SWINE; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; ECHINOIDEA; SUIDAE;

EID: 0029778157     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1996)34:4<324::AID-CM7>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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