Aluminum fluoride, microtubule stability, and kinesin rigor
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Journal of Cell Science
- Vol. 1991 (Supplement), 147-150
- https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.1991.supplement_14.30
Abstract
Aluminum fluoride may be used both to stabilize microtubules and to induce strong binding of kinesin, thus circumventing the need for taxol and AMP-PNP in kinesin preparations.Keywords
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