Intriguing self-assembly of large granules of F-actin facilitated by gelsolin and α-actinin

Langmuir

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2789-2795

  Tang, Jay X ^a   Kang, Hyeran ^a   Jia, Jinfeng ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELSOLIN; GRANULES; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CROSSLINKING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

PROTEINS;

ACTININ; GELSOLIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBIT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTININ; ANIMALS; GELSOLIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBITS;

EID: 16244373393     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la047213c     Document Type: Article

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