Crystallographic structure of tubulin: Implications for dynamics and drug binding

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 269-275

  Downing, Kenneth H ^a,b   Nogales, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic instability; Electron crystallography; GTPase; Microtubules; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DYNAMICS; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; COLCHICINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TUBULIN; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0032712782     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.24.269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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