Ribosome substructure investigated by scanning force microscopy and image processing

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-56

  Fritzsche, W ^a,b   Henderson, E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Image processing; Polysome; Ribosome; Scanning force microscopy

Indexed keywords

MACROMOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; AXIS RATIO; CHIRONOMUS; EUKARYOTIC RIBOSOMES; IMAGES PROCESSING; POLYSOME; RIBOSOMAL STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION; SUBSTRATE PLANES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHIRONOMIDAE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031906368     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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