In vitro assembly properties of mutant and chimeric intermediate filament proteins: Insight into the function of sequences in the rod and end domains of if

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 249-261

  Gu, Lisa ^a   Troncoso, Juan C ^b   Wade, James B ^c   Monteiro, Mervyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; electron microscopy; EM; IF; in vitro assembly; Intermediate filaments; Lamins; Neurofilaments; neurofilaments; NFs

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; AMINO ACID; BUFFER; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LAMIN A; MUTANT PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STAINING; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 3042826687     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2004.04.020     Document Type: Article

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