Actin: From cell biology to atomic detail

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-320

  Steinmetz, Michel O ^a   Stoffler, Daniel ^a   Hoenger, Andreas ^a   Bremer, Andreas ^a,b   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; F ACTIN; G ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030745347     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3873     Document Type: Article

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