Structural insights into microtubule doublet interactions in axonemes

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-259

  Downing, Kenneth H ^a   Sui, Haixin ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

AXONEME; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FLAGELLUM; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; SEA URCHINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34147096000     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.03.013     Document Type: Review

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