Self-organization of microtubules and motors

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6648, 1997, Pages 305-308

  Nedelec F J ^a   Surrey, T ^a   Maggs, A C ^b   Leibler, S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0037813094     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38532     Document Type: Article

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