Plasticity of intermediate filament subunits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Kirmse, Robert ^a   Qin, Zhao ^b   Weinert, Carl M ^c   Hoenger, Andrea ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^b   Kreplak, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 5; DESMIN; GLUTARALDEHYDE; MAGNESIUM; VIMENTIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PLASTICITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STAINING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

EID: 77957880329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012115     Document Type: Article

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