Repeat motifs of tau bind to the insides of microtubules in the absence of taxol

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-77

  Kar, Santwana ^a   Fan, Juan ^a   Smith, Michael J ^a   Goedert, Michel ^a   Amos, Linda A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinesin; Microtubule associated proteins (MAPs); Taxol; Three dimensional image reconstruction; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; DIMER; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PACLITAXEL; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TAU PROTEINS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0037413708     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg001     Document Type: Article

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