Physical properties of dystrophin rod domain

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 246-252

  Kahana, Edith ^a,c   Flood, G ^b   Gratzer, W B ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

dystrophin; spectrin repeats

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; MONOMER; SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMETHYL SUBERIMIDATE; DYSTROPHIN; HUMANS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0031052652     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)36:3<246::AID-CM5>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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