To bead or not to bead? Lens-specific intermediate filaments revisited

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2629-2634

  Georgatos, Spyros D ^a   Gounari, Fotini ^b   Goulielmos, George ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beaded filament; Cytoskeleton; Electron microscopy; Eye lens; Filensin; In vitro assembly; Intermediate filament; Phakinin

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETON; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LENS; LENS FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS;

EID: 0030717391     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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