Intermediate filaments: Molecular architecture, assembly, dynamics and polymorphism

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-187

  Parry, David A D ^a   Steinert, Peter M ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KERATIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SKIN DISEASES, GENETIC; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0033498452     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500003516     Document Type: Review

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