A tailless Drosophila lamin Dm0 fragment reveals lateral associations of dimers

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 56-66

  Sasse, Bernd ^a,b   Aebi, Ueli ^a   Stuurman, Nico ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assembly; Dimer dimer interactions; Electron microscopy; Intermediate filaments; Nuclear lamins

Indexed keywords

LAMIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EPITOPE MAPPING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0032170330     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1998.4006     Document Type: Article

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