Fibulins: A versatile family of extracellular matrix proteins

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 479-489

  Timpl, Rupert ^a   Sasaki, Takako ^a   Kostka, Günter ^a   Chu, Mon Li ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHYLATOXIN; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; ENTACTIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRILLIN; FIBRONECTIN; FIBULIN; FIBULIN 1; FIBULIN 2; FIBULIN 3; FIBULIN 4; FIBULIN 5; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERLECAN; PROTEOGLYCAN; SCLEROPROTEIN; TROPOELASTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CALCIUM BINDING; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELASTIC FIBER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DIMERIZATION; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INTRONS; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037686257     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1130     Document Type: Review

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