Microtubule polymerization dynamics

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 1997, Pages 83-117

  Desai, Arshad ^a   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Dynamic instability; Mechanism; Regulation

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; GENETIC STABILITY; HYDROLYSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; DIMERIZATION; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; POLYMERS; THERMODYNAMICS; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031466304     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.13.1.83     Document Type: Review

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