The expanding significance of keratin intermediate filaments in normal and diseased epithelia

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-56

  Pan, Xiaoou ^a   Hobbs, Ryan P ^a   Coulombe, Pierre A ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KERATIN;

APOPTOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL GROWTH; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; EPITHELIUM; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SKIN FRAGILITY;

EID: 84873731727     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.10.018     Document Type: Review

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