Physical properties determining self-organization of motors and microtubules

Science

Volumn 292, Issue 5519, 2001, Pages 1167-1171

  Surrey, Thomas ^a   Nédélec, François ^a   Leibler, Stanislas ^a,b   Karsenti, Eric ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS; VORTEX FLOW;

EUKARYOTIC CELLS;

CELLS;

KINESIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; TUBULIN; VISCOSITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0342903325     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1059758     Document Type: Article

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