Molecular architecture of axonemal microtubule doublets revealed by cryo-electron tomography

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7101, 2006, Pages 475-478

  Sui, Haixin ^a   Downing, Kenneth H ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROTEINS;

AXONEMES; MACROMOLECULAR MACHINES; PROTOFILAMENTS; TUBULIN PROTOFILAMENTS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

TUBULIN;

CILIATE; CRYOBIOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTIST; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CRYOELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULE; MECHANICS; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE DOUBLET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEA URCHIN; SPERM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICROTUBULES; SEA URCHINS; SPERMATOZOA; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33747088253     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04816     Document Type: Article

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