Crystalline actin sheets: their structure and polymorphism.
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Crystalline actin sheets: their structure and polymorphism
Crystalline sheets of Acanthamoeba actin induced by the trivalent lanthanide gadolinium exist in three different polymorphic forms, which show different striation patterns and surface topographies. We have called these different forms "rectangular" and "square" sheets, and "cylinders" and have shown that each of the three forms is constructed from common "basic" lattices associated in different...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.91.2.340