Crystallization of a macromolecular ring assembly of tubulin liganded with the anti-mitotic drug podophyllotoxin

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 211-215

  Schönbrunn, Ernst ^b   Phlippen, Wolfgang ^a   Trinczek, Bernhard ^a   Sack, Stefan ^a   Eschenburg, Susanne ^c   Mandelkow, Eva Maria ^a   Mandelkow, Eckhard ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti cancer drug; Cytoskeleton; Salting in crystallization; Synchrotron X ray radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOSKELETON; DIFFRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0342470417     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4183     Document Type: Article

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