Structure and assembly properties of the intermediate filament protein vimentin: The role of its head, rod and tail domains

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 933-953

  Herrmann, Harald ^a   Häner, Markus ^b   Brettel, Monika ^a   Müller, Shirley A ^b   Goldie, Kenneth N ^b   Fedtke, Bettina ^b   Lustig, Ariel ^b   Franke, Werner W ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Filament assembly; Intermediate filament structure; Mass determination; Scanning transmission electron microscopy; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; VIMENTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IONIC STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOSITY; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030596170     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0688     Document Type: Article

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