The kinetics of actin nucleation and polymerization.
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The kinetics of actin nucleation and polymerization.
The polymerization kinetics of rabbit skeletal muscle actin was studied by following the increase in fluorescence of tracer amounts of actin conjugated to N-pyrenyl iodoacetamide. The observed polymerization kinetics could be precisely fit by numerical integration of equations describing a nucleation-elongation process. Under all conditions tested, the rate of nucleation was proportional to the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)32850-3