Filaments assembly of ectopically expressed Caenorhabditis elegans lamin within Xenopus oocytes

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 113-118

  Grossman, Einat ^a   Dahan, Idit ^a   Stick, Reimer ^b   Goldberg, Martin W ^c   Gruenbaum, Yosef ^d   Medalia, Ohad ^a,e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans lamin; Cryo electron tomography; Intermediate filaments; Nuclear lamina; Protofilaments

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; LAMIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LAMINA; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAMINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NUCLEAR LAMINA; OOCYTES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84855855189     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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