Intermediate filaments: A dynamic network that controls cell mechanics

F1000Prime Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gruenbaum, Yosef ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LAMIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; VIMENTIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; LAMELLIPODIUM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SUMOYLATION;

EID: 84904917733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20517599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12703/P6-54     Document Type: Review

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