Rational analyses of organelle trajectories in tobacco pollen tubes reveal characteristics of the actomyosin cytoskeleton

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1648-1658

  De Win, Anna H N ^a   Pierson, Elisabeth S ^a   Derksen, Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOSKELETON; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POLLEN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOSPECIFICITY; TOBACCO; VELOCITY;

LANES; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0033047847     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77324-8     Document Type: Article

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