Spectrin: On the path from structure to function

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-55

  Viel, Alain ^a   Branton, Daniel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; LIPID; PLECKSTRIN; SPECTRIN;

HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0030042322     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(96)80048-2     Document Type: Article

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