Formation of well-oriented microtubules with preferential polarity in a confined space under a temperature gradient

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 18089-18095

  Kakugo, Akira ^a,b   Tamura, Yoshiki ^a   Shikinaka, Kazuhiro ^a,c   Yoshida, Momoko ^a   Kawamura, Ryuzo ^a,d   Furukawa, Hidemitsu ^a   Osada, Yoshihito ^a,d   Gong, Jian Ping ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINED SPACE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MICROTUBULES; POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TUBULIN POLYMERIZATION;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; POLYMERIZATION; SPACE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; ENTROPY; GLASS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MICROTUBULES; TEMPERATURE; TUBULIN;

EID: 72449131422     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja901538n     Document Type: Article

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