Tubulin rings: Which way do they curve?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 256-261

  Nogales, Eva ^a   Wang, Hong Wei ^a   Niederstrasser, Hanspeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; CRYPTOPHYCIN 1; CRYPTOPHYCIN DERIVATIVE; DIMER; FTSZ PROTEIN; GAMMA TUBULIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN; REV PROTEIN; STATHMIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ENERGY; HYDROLYSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0037398887     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(03)00029-0     Document Type: Review

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