Crystallization and preliminary x-ray analysis of the single-headed and double-headed motor protein kinesin

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-34

  Kozielski, Frank ^a   Schönbrunn, Ernst ^b   Sack, Stefan ^a   Müller, Jens ^a   Brady, Scott T ^c   Mandelkow, Eckhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK UNIT FOR STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Univ of Texas Southwestern Med C ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031171694     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3872     Document Type: Article

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