Coiling and maturation of a high-performance fibre in hagfish slime gland thread cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Winegard, Timothy ^a   Herr, Julia ^a   Mena, Carlos ^b,c   Lee, Betty ^b,c   Dinov, Ivo ^b,c,d   Bird, Deborah ^e   Bernards Jr , Mark ^a   Hobel, Sam ^b,c   Van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^e   Toga, Arthur ^b,c   Fudge, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CYTOLOGY; FISH; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; HAGFISH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; NUCLEOLUS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; FISH PROTEINS; HAGFISHES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS;

EID: 84898713439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4534     Document Type: Article

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