Near-UV Circular Dichroism Reveals Structural Transitions of Vimentin Subunits during Intermediate Filament Assembly

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 544-553

  Georgakopoulou, Sofia ^a   Möller, Dorothee ^b   Sachs, Nadine ^b   Herrmann, Harald ^b   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

circular dichroism; intermediate filaments; unit length filaments; vimentin

Indexed keywords

TETRAMER; TYROSINE; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 59149083058     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.053     Document Type: Article

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