Plectin: A cytolinker by design

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-158

  Steinböck, Ferdinand A ^a   Wiche, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; Integrins; Intermediate filaments; p34(cdc2) kinase

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DIMER; INTEGRIN; LINK PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLECTIN; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; HEMIDESMOSOME; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0033053121     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bc.1999.023     Document Type: Review

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