Kinetic mechanism of end-to-end annealing of actin filaments

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 312, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 721-730

  Andrianantoandro, Ernesto ^a,b   Blanchoin, Laurent ^a   Sept, David ^b   McCammon, J Andrew ^b   Pollard, Thomas D ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Annealing; Capping protein; Polymer dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; PHALLOIDIN; POLYMER;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RABBIT;

EID: 0035965138     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5005     Document Type: Article

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