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Dissertation Title: "An X-ray Diffraction Study of Membrane Gap Junctions." January 1976, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Publications with D. L. D. Caspar:

Caspar, D. L. D., Goodenough, D. A., Makowski, L. and Phillips, W. C. (1977) "Gap Junction Structures. I. Correlated Electron Microscopy and X-ray Diffraction." J. Cell Biol. 74:605-628.

Makowski, L., Caspar, D. L. D., Phillips, W. C. and Goodenough, D. A. (1977) "Gap Junction Structures. II. Analysis of the X-ray Diffracton Data." J. Cell Biol. 74:629-645.

Makowski, L. and Caspar, D. L. D. (1978) "Filamentous Bacteriophage Pfl Has 27 Subunits in Its Axial Repeat." In The Single-Stranded DNA Phages (Denhardt, D. T., Dressler, D. and Ray, D. S., eds.), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, pp. 627-643.

Makowski, L. and Caspar, D. L. D. (1979) "The Structure of Filamentous Bacteriophage Pf1 at 7 Å Resolution." J. Supramol. Struct. 8 (Suppl. 3), 88.

Makowski, L. and Caspar, D. L. D. (1980) "Structure of Filamentous Bacteriophage Pf1." Biophys. J. 32:238-240.

Makowski, L., Caspar, D. L. D. and Marvin, D. A. (1980) "Filamentous Bacteriophage Pf1 Structure Determined at 7Å Resolution by Refinement of Models for the a-Helical Subunit." J. Mol. Biol. 140: 149-181.

Caspar, D. L. D. and Makowski, L. (1981) "The Symmetries of Filamentous Phage Particles." J. Mol. Biol. 145:611-617.

Makowski, L., Caspar, D. L. D., Goodenough, D. A., Phillips, W. C. (1982) "Gap Junction Structures. III. The Effect of Variations in the Isolation Procedure." Biophys. J. 37:189-191.

Makowski, L., Caspar, D. L. D., Phillips, W. C. and Goodenough, D. A. (1984) "Gap Junction Stuctures. V. Structural Chemistry Inferred from X-ray Diffraction Measurements on Sucrose Accessibility and Trypsin Susceptibility." J. Mol. Biol. 174:449-481.

Makowski, L., Caspar, D. L. D., Phillips, W. C., Baker, T. S. and Goodenough, D. A. (1984) "Gap Junction Structures. VI. Variation and Conservation in Connexon Conformation and Packing." Biophys. J. 45:208-218.