Microtubules and maps

Advances in Protein Chemistry

Volumn 71, Issue , 2005, Pages 257-298

  Amos, Linda A ^a   Schlieper, Daniel ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALGINIC ACID; CYTOPLASMIC LINKER PROTEIN; DISCODERMOLIDE; DOUBLECORTIN; DYNACTIN; ELEUTHEROBIN; END BINDING PROTEIN 1; EPOTHILONE B; GAMMA TUBULIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KATANIN; KINESIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 5; MONOMER; PACLITAXEL; PLUS END TRACKING PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN EMAP; PROTEIN XMAP215; SARCODICTYIN; STABLE TUBULE ONLY POLYPEPTIDE; STATHMIN; TAU PROTEIN; TERPENOID; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINBLASTINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TUBULIN;

EID: 26844433579     PISSN: 00653233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3233(04)71007-4     Document Type: Review

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