Amyloid domains in the cell nucleus controlled by nucleoskeletal protein lamin B1 reveal a new pathway of mercury neurotoxicity

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Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Arnhold, Florian ^a   Gührs, Karl Heinz ^b   von Mikecz, Anna ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Confocal microscopy; Lamin B; Mercury; Nucleoplasm; Nucleus; Protein fibrillation; Proteomics; Ribonucleoproteins; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; LAMIN A; LAMIN B; LAMIN B1; LAMIN C; PROTEASOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FILTER RETARDATION ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURIALISM; MICROENVIRONMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84926429498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.754     Document Type: Article

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