In vitro assembly of Drosophila lamin Dm0. Lamin polymerization properties are conserved

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 30-38

  Sasse, Bernd ^a   Lustig, Ariel ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a   Stuurman, Nico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

10 nm filaments; Drosophila; Head to tail polymerization; Intermediate filament; Nuclear lamin; Nucleus

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DIMER; LAMIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POLYMER; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRACENTRIFUGE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030732818     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-1-00030.x     Document Type: Article

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