Intermediate filament protein structure determination

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2004, Issue 78, 2004, Pages 25-43

  Strelkov, Sergei V ^a   Kreplak, Laurent ^a   Herrmann, Harald ^b   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRICITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; X RAY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOPHYSICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DESMIN; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUTIONS; VIMENTIN; X-RAYS;

EID: 14244252028     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(04)78002-4     Document Type: Review

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