Assemblases and coupling proteins in thick filament assembly

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 155-162

  Liu, Feizhou ^a   Barral, Jose M ^a   Bauer, Christopher C ^a   Ortiz, Irving ^a   Cook, Richard G ^a   Schmied, Michael F ^a   Epstein, Henry F ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed assembly; Myosin; Novel thick filament proteins; Paramyosin

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PARAMYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFERENCE PAPER; MYOFILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031005990     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.22.155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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