Keratins as the main component for the mechanical integrity of keratinocytes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 18513-18518

  Ramms, Lena ^a   Fabris, Gloria ^a   Windoffer, Reinhard ^b   Schwarz, Nicole ^b   Springer, Ronald ^a   Zhou, Chen ^b   Lazar, Jaroslav ^b   Stiefel, Simone ^a   Hersch, Nils ^a   Schnakenberg, Uwe ^b   Magin, Thomas M ^c   Leube, Rudolf E ^b   Merkel, Rudolf ^a   Hoffmann, Bernd ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; KERATIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; KERATINOCYTE; MAGNETIC TWEEZERS EXPERIMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL SHAPE; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATIN-14; KERATINOCYTES; KERATINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84887453183     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313491110     Document Type: Article

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