Moving into the cell: Single-molecule studies of molecular motors in complex environments

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 163-176

  Veigel, Claudia ^a   Schmidt, Christoph F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KINESIN 1; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MYOSIN II; MYOSIN V; QUANTUM DOT;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MITOSIS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951971261     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3062     Document Type: Review

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