Early fibrillin-1 assembly monitored through a modifiable recombinant cell approach

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1456-1468

  Hubmacher, Dirk ^a,d   Bergeron, Eric ^a,e   Fagotto Kaufmann, Christine ^a   Sakai, Lynn Y ^b   Reinhardt, Dieter P ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; CELL CULTURE MODELS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; INTEGRIN BINDING; MICROFIBRIL ASSEMBLY; RECOMBINANT CELLS; SECRETED PROTEIN; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

FIBRILLIN 1; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRILLIN; FIBRONECTIN; HEPARIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURFACE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MARFAN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WEILL MARCHESANI SYNDROME; WESTERN BLOTTING; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FIBER; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; MESODERM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; FIBRONECTINS; HEK293 CELLS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MESODERM; MICE; MICROFIBRILS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; NIH 3T3 CELLS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84898605091     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm5000696     Document Type: Article

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