Characterisation of fibrillin-1 cDNA clones in a human fibroblast cell line that assembles microfibrils

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 201-214

  Kettle, Susan ^a   Cardy, Caroline M ^a   Hutchinson, Sarah ^a   Sykes, Bryan ^b   Handford, Penny A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Inst Molec Med Headley Way O   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extracellular matrix; Fibrillin 1; Marfan syndrome; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBRILLIN; PEPTIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIBER; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MARFAN SYNDROME; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICROFIBRILS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033989847     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-2725(99)00120-X     Document Type: Article

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