Assembly properties of amino- and carboxyl-terminally truncated neurofilament NF-H proteins with NF-L and NF-M in the presence and absence of vimentin

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 917-926

  Sun, Dongming ^a   Macioce, Pompeo ^b   Chin, Steven S M ^a   Liem, Ronald K H ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Filament network formation; Intermediate filament; Neurofilament protein; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN H; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN L; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DELETION MUTANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0031016177     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1997.68030917.x     Document Type: Article

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