Preparation of Dual-Color Polarity-Marked Fluorescent Microtubule Seeds

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 777, Issue , 2011, Pages 117-126

  Katsuki, Miho ^a   Muto, Etsuko ^b   Cross, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Guanylyl (alpha, beta) methylene diphosphonate; In vitro microtubule dynamics assay; Microtubule; N hydroxysuccinimide ester; Polarity marked microtubules; Succinimidyl ester; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; SUCCINIMIDE DERIVATIVE; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE;

FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; SUCCINIMIDES; TUBULIN;

EID: 79960918653     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-252-6_9     Document Type: Chapter

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