Assembly and architecture of invertebrate cytoplasmic intermediate filaments reconcile features of vertebrate cytoplasmic and nuclear lamin-type intermediate filaments

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 601-617

  Geisler, Norbert ^a   Schünemann, Jürgen ^a   Weber, Klaus ^a   Häner, Markus ^b   Aebi, Ueli ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Filament assembly; Intermediate filaments (IFs); Nuclear lamins; Protostomic invertebrate IFs; Structural biology

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LAMIN;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; HELIX POMATIA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; INVERTEBRATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ASCARIS SUUM; GASTROPODA; HELIX POMATIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032566613     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1995     Document Type: Article

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