A structural view of microtubule dynamics

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 133-142

  Nogales, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic instability; Electron crystallography; Microtubule; Nucleotide; Structure; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; DIMER; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PACLITAXEL; TUBULIN;

CHEMICAL BINDING; HYDROLYSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIMERIZATION; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

EID: 0033214537     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050012     Document Type: Review

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