Structural basis for heteromeric assembly and perinuclear organization of keratin filaments

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 707-715

  Lee, Chang Hun ^a,c   Kim, Min Sung ^b   Chung, Byung Min ^a   Leahy, Daniel J ^b   Coulombe, Pierre A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 5;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDE BOND; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KERATINOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDES; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; KERATINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84863726349     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2330     Document Type: Article

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