A model for the microtubule-Ncd motor protein complex obtained by cryo- electron microscopy and image analysis

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-224

  Sosa, Hernando ^a   Prabha Dias, D ^a   Hoenger, Andreas ^a   Whittaker, Michael ^a   Wilson Kubalek, Elizabeth ^a   Sablin, Elena ^b   Fletterick, Robert J ^b   Vale, Ronald D ^b   Milligan, Ronald A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0343811700     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80330-X     Document Type: Article

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