Quantitative measurement of the catastrophe rate of dynamic microtubules

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-51

  Zhou, Bin Bing ^a   Kirschner, Marc W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophe factors; Cell cycle; Dynamic instability; Tubulin; Xenopus extracts

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; XENOPUS;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL CYCLE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUTARAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MICE; MICROTUBULES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TUBULIN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032933909     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1999)43:1<43::AID-CM5>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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