Annealing accounts for the length of actin filaments formed by spontaneous polymerization

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2911-2919

  Sept, David ^a   Xu, Jingyuan ^b   Pollard, Thomas D ^a,c   McCammon, J Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BUFFER; PHALLOIDIN; RHODAMINE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RABBIT;

EID: 0032796310     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77124-9     Document Type: Article

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