Tubulin folding: The special case of a beta-tubulin isotype from the Antarctic psychrophilic ciliate Euplotes focardii

Polar Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1833-1838

  Pucciarelli, Sandra ^a   Chiappori, Federica ^b   Sparvoli, Daniela ^a   Milanesi, Luciano ^b   Miceli, Cristina ^a   Melki, Ronald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cold adaptation; Modeling; Molecular chaperons; Protozoan; Sitedirected mutagenesis; Tubulin cofactor A

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES FOCARDII; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84921854864     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: 14322056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-013-1390-9     Document Type: Article

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