Anisotropic nucleation growth of actin bundle: A model for determining the well-defined thickness of bundles

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 10313-10318

  Kwon, Hyuck Joon ^a   Tanaka, Yoshimi ^b   Kakugo, Akira ^a   Shikinaka, Kazuhiro ^a   Furukawa, Hidemitsu ^a   Osada, Yoshihito ^a   Gong, Jian Ping ^a,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Creative Research Initiative   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GROWTH KINETICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEATION; POLYELECTROLYTES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ACTIN BUNDLE; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTION; NUCLEUS CONCENTRATION; POLYCATIONS;

BIOPOLYMERS;

BIOPOLYMER; DNA; F ACTIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; G ACTIN; PHALLOIDIN; POLYCATION; RHODAMINE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; DNA; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROSTATICS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PECTINIDAE;

EID: 33748649660     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi060721w     Document Type: Article

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