Contributions of the structural domains of filensin in polymer formation and filament distribution

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 447-456

  Goulielmos, George ^a   Remington, Susann ^a   Schwesinger, Falk ^a   Georgatos, Spyros D ^a,b   Gounari, Fotini ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Beaded filament; Intermediate filament; Swapping mutant

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; FILENSIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA PRIMERS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030044656     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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