Vimentin in a cold-water fish, the rainbow trout: Highly conserved primary structure but unique assembly properties

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 569-578

  Herrmann, Harald ^a   Münick, Michaela D ^b   Brettel, Monika ^a   Fouquet, Bernadette ^b   Markl, Jürgen ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly; Fish; Intermediate filament; Rainbow trout; Temperature sensitivity; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARP; CHICKEN; DNA LIBRARY; DNA TRANSFECTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FROG; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAINBOW TROUT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; TEMPERATURE; VIMENTIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; CYPRINUS CARPIO; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029940902     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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