Microtubules: Strange polymers inside the cell

Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-295

  Bolterauer, H ^a   Limbach, H J ^a   Tuszynski J A ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depolymerization; Microtubules; Polymerization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIMERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PROTEINS;

DEPOLYMERIZATION; MICROTUBULES;

CELLS;

POLYMER;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPOLYMERIZATION; EVOLUTION; MICROTUBULE; MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BIOPOLYMERS; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0032929859     PISSN: 03024598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0302-4598(99)00011-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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