The mechanisms of microtubule catastrophe and rescue: Implications from analysis of a dimer-scale computational model

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 642-656

  Margolin, Gennady ^a,d,e   Gregoretti, Ivan V ^a,d,e   Cickovski, Trevor M ^b,e   Li, Chunlei ^a   Shi, Wei ^a,f   Alber, Mark S ^a,c   Goodson, Holly V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^e ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL STRUCTURE; DEPOLYMERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; TUBULIN;

EID: 84863162345     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E11-08-0688     Document Type: Article

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