Intermediate filament structure: The bottom-up approach

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 65-72

  Chernyatina, Anastasia A ^a   Guzenko, Dmytro ^a   Strelkov, Sergei V ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; TETRAMER; VIMENTIN;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPIN LABELING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

METAZOA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84920971361     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2014.12.007     Document Type: Review

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