Intermediate filament assembly: Temperature sensitivity and polymorphism

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1416-1431

  Herrmann, H ^a   Aebi, U ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assembly; Fibrous proteins; Intermediate filaments; Polymorphism; Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; TUBULIN; VIMENTIN;

CYTOSKELETON; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; VIMENTIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033618848     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050382     Document Type: Review

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