Deconstructing the late phase of vimentin assembly by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Winheim, Stefan ^a   Hieb, Aaron R ^a,b   Silbermann, Marleen ^a   Surmann, Eva Maria ^a   Wedig, Tatjana ^a   Herrmann, Harald ^a   Langowski, Jörg ^a   Mücke, Norbert ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXA 488 DYE; ALEXA 647 DYE; DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL ELONGATION; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMOBILIZED CELL; ION TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

ALEXA;

HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIMENTIN;

EID: 79955533597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019202     Document Type: Article

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