Bridging length scales to measure polymer assembly

A general methodology combining microscopy and spectroscopy to quantitatively measure polymer concentration in cells and cell extracts is applied to develop a system for studying microtubule nucleation.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Molecular Biology of the Cell

• Publication date

  2017-05-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Materials Science, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1091/mbc.E16-05-0344PMID 28356424PMCID 5426851
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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