The Physiological Molecular Shape of Spectrin: A Compact Supercoil Resembling a Chinese Finger Trap

Jeffrey W. Brown; Esther Bullitt; Sira Sriswasdi; Sandra Harper; David W. Speicher; C. James McKnight

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004302

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The Physiological Molecular Shape of Spectrin: A Compact Supercoil Resembling a Chinese Finger Trap

Jeffrey W. Brown,

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Esther Bullitt,

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Sira Sriswasdi,

Affiliations Center for Systems and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Sandra Harper,

Affiliation Center for Systems and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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David W. Speicher,

Affiliations Center for Systems and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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C. James McKnight

* E-mail: cjmck@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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The Physiological Molecular Shape of Spectrin: A Compact Supercoil Resembling a Chinese Finger Trap

Jeffrey W. Brown,
Esther Bullitt,
Sira Sriswasdi,
Sandra Harper,
David W. Speicher,
C. James McKnight

Published: June 11, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004302

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