How Taxol® stabilises microtubule structure

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Amos, Linda A ^a   Löwe, Jan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PACLITAXEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0033102385     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(99)89002-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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