Limited flexibility of the inter-protofilament bonds in microtubules assembled from pure tubulin

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 490-500

  Chrétien, Denis ^a   Flyvbjerg, Henrik ^b,c   Fuller, Stephen D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; Inter protofilament bonds; Microtubule dynamics; Microtubule structure; Moire patterns

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MICROTUBULE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CATTLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TUBULIN;

EID: 0041156161     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050159     Document Type: Article

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