Plectin

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2004, Issue 78, 2004, Pages 721-755

  Rezniczek, Günther A ^a   Janda, Lubomír ^a   Wiche, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PLEC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PLEC1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PLEC1 PROTEIN, RAT; PLECTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LENS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; PLECTIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 14244268623     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(04)78025-5     Document Type: Review

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