Intermediate filaments and cytoplasmic networking: New connections and more functions

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-53

  Chou, Ying Hao ^a   Skalli, Omar ^b   Goldman, Robert D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN;

CELL JUNCTION; CYTOSKELETON; DESMOSOME; EPITHELIUM; HEMIDESMOSOME; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROFILAMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0031042994     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(97)80151-2     Document Type: Article

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