Titin: Properties and family relationships

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 679-689

  Tskhovrebova, Larissa ^a   Trinick, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

MUSCLE FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN KINASES; SARCOMERES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042839620     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1198     Document Type: Review

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