Methods for expressing and analyzing GFP-tubulin and GFP-microtubule-associated proteins

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Goodson, Holly V ^a   Dzurisin, Jill S ^a   Wadsworth, Patricia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 77958089300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top85     Document Type: Article

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