In vitro assembled plant microtubules exhibit a high state of dynamic instability

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 278-286

  Moore, Richard C ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Cassimeris, Lynne ^b   Cyr, Richard J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Microtubules; Plant

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARROT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; DAUCUS CAROTA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROTUBULES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBULIN;

EID: 0030862508     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)38:3<278::AID-CM6>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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