Preparation of a monoclonal antibody specific for the class I isotype of β-tubulin: The β isotypes of tubulin differ in their cellular distributions within human tissues

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 273-285

  Roach, Mary Carmen ^a   Boucher, Virginia L ^b   Walss, Consuelo ^a   Ravdin, Peter M ^b   Ludueña, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

(I) tubulin; (IV) tubulin; Bovine brain; Immunoperoxidase; Microtubule; Thymus

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ACETYLATION; ACINAR CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GLYCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; OVARY FOLLICLE STRATUM GRANULOSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; COLON; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PANCREAS; RATS; SKIN; THYMUS GLAND; TUBULIN;

EID: 0031978187     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)39:4<273::AID-CM3>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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