Microtubules: Greater than the sum of the parts

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1736-1744

  Lawson, Jonathan L D ^a   Carazo Salas, Rafael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Microtubule; Post genomic era; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 6; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; TUBULIN;

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84887983370     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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