Membrane skeleton: How to build a molecular shock absorber

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 23, 1999, Pages

  McGough, Amy ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTININ; SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACTININ; CELL MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTRIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0033518313     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)80075-5     Document Type: Article

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