Relationship between Moire patterns, tubulin shape, and microtubule polarity

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-43

  Sosa, Hernando ^a   Chrétien, Denis ^b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer modeling; Cryo electron microscopy; Cytoskeleton; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

TUBULIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROTUBULES; MOIRE TOPOGRAPHY; TUBULIN;

EID: 0031596860     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)40:1<38::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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