What makes tropomyosin an actin binding protein? A perspective.

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Published in J Struct Biol on December 29, 2009

Authors

Sarah E Hitchcock-DeGregori1, Abhishek Singh

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. hitchcoc@umdnj.edu

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