New insights into microtubule structure and function from the atomic model of tubulin

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 431-436

  Downing, Kenneth H ^a   Nogales, Eva ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colchicine; Electron crystallography; Microtubules; Taxol; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE; PACLITAXEL; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DRUG BINDING SITE; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BINDING SITES; BIOPHYSICS; CATTLE; COLCHICINE; DIMERIZATION; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SWINE; TUBULIN;

EID: 0031696078     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050153     Document Type: Article

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