How electron cryotomography is opening a new window onto prokaryotic ultrastructure

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 260-267

  Jensen, Grant J ^a   Briegel, Ariane ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON; LABORATORY; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34147118089     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.03.002     Document Type: Review

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