Cryoelectron tomography reveals periodic material at the inner side of subpellicular microtubules in apicomplexan parasites

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 204, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1281-1287

  Cyrklaff, Marek ^a   Kudryashev, Mikhail ^b   Leis, Andrew ^a   Leonard, Kevin ^c   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^a   Menard, Robert ^d   Meissner, Markus ^b   Frischknecht, Friedrich ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MAMMAL CELL; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROZOITE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLASMODIUM; SPOROZOITES; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250322091     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20062405     Document Type: Article

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