Quick shear-flow alignment of biological filaments for X-ray fiber diffraction facilitated by methylcellulose

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3132-3138

  Sugiyama, Takaaki ^a   Miyashiro, Daisuke ^a   Takao, Daisuke ^a   Iwamoto, Hiroyuki ^b   Sugimoto, Yasunobu ^c   Wakabayashi, Katsuzo ^c   Kamimura, Shinji ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBAMOVIRUS;

EID: 73449145315     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.09.041     Document Type: Article

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