New insights into the structural organization of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cytoskeletons using cryo-electron tomography

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 301, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-42

  Kürner, Julia ^a   Medalia, Ohad ^a   Linaroudis, Alexandros A ^a   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Electron microscopy; Macromolecular structure; Motility; Spiroplasma

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CRYOELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTE; FIBER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SPIROPLASMA;

EID: 6344260555     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2004.08.005     Document Type: Review

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