Nematode sperm motility: Nonpolar filament polymerization mediated by end-tracking motors

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 622-631

  Dickinson, Richard B ^a,b   Purich, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MAJOR SPERM PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; NEMATODE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33846540262     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.090472     Document Type: Article

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