On the stiffness of the natural actin filament decorated with alexa fluor tropomyosin

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 469-476

  Adami, Raffaella ^a   Cintio, Orietta ^a   Trombetta, Giorgio ^a   Choquet, Daniel ^b   Grazi, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Actin; Elastic properties; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

ALEXA FLUOR 488 C 5 MALEIMIDE; MALEIMIDE; PHALLOIDIN; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENCE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LASER; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRENGTH; STRETCHING;

ALEXA;

EID: 0037810995     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4622(03)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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