Structural microtubule cap: Stability, catastrophe, rescue, and third state

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1317-1330

  Jánosi, Imre M ^a,b,c,d   Chréien, Denis ^a,b,c,d   Flyvbjerg, Henrik ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; TUBULIN; LIGAND;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; POLYMERIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIMERIZATION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LIGANDS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0036708442     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)73902-7     Document Type: Article

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