Op18/stathmin caps a kinked protofilament-like tubulin tetramer

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 572-580

  Steinmetz, Michel O ^a   Kammerer, Richard A ^a,b   Jahnke, Wolfgang ^a   Goldie, Kenneth N ^a,b,c   Lustig, Ariel ^a,b   Van Oostrum, Jan ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Microtubule catastrophe factor; Structure analysis; Tubulin capping protein; Tubulin GDP directed conformational change

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; STATHMIN; TUBULIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034651986     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.4.572     Document Type: Article

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