Rhodamine phalloidin F-actin. Critical concentration versus tensile strength

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 270-275

  Adami, Raffaella ^b   Choquet, Daniel ^b   Grazi, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Actin; Critical concentration; Filament; Yield strength

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; MAGNESIUM; MONOMER; PHALLOIDIN; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELASTICITY; IONIC STRENGTH; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RABBIT; STRETCHING; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENT DYES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHALLOIDINE; RABBITS; RHODAMINES; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0038093223     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00501.x     Document Type: Article

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