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Arquitectura macromolecular en células eucariotas visualizada por tomografía crioelectrónica

Ohad Medalia1, Igor Weber, Achilleas S Frangakis

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|November 9, 2002
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La tomografía electrónica revela el intrincado citoesqueleto de actina en las células del Dictyostelium. Este método visualiza las estructuras moleculares dentro de un entorno celular imperturbado, ofreciendo nuevos conocimientos sobre la organización celular.

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