Microtubule structure at 8 Å resolution

Structure

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1317-1328

  Li, Huilin ^a   DeRosier, David J ^a   Nicholson, William V ^a   Nogales, Eva ^a   Downing, Kenneth H ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic instability; Electron crystallography; Microtubules; Protein structure; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 0036774026     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(02)00827-4     Document Type: Article

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