Unraveling the mechanism of elastic fiber assembly: The roles of short fibulins

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1084-1093

  Yanagisawa, Hiromi ^a   Davis, Elaine C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assembly; Elastic fibers; Knockout mouse; Lysyl oxidase; Microfibrils

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBER; ELASTIN; FIBULIN; FIBULIN 1; FIBULIN 2; FIBULIN 3; FIBULIN 4; FIBULIN 5; GLYCOPROTEIN; MONOMER; POLYMER; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TROPOELASTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL INTERACTION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CROSS LINKING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELASTIC TISSUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MUS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; ELASTIC TISSUE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953494050     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2010.03.009     Document Type: Review

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