Cryo-Electron Tomography: Can it Reveal the Molecular Sociology of Cells in Atomic Detail?

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 825-837

  Beck, Martin ^a   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN COMPLEX I; PROTEASOME;

CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SOCIOLOGY; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEOLYSIS;

EID: 84994797881     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2016.08.006     Document Type: Review

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