Vimentin intermediate filaments control actin stress fiber assembly through GEF-H1 and RhoA

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 892-902

  Jiu, Yaming ^a   Peränen, Johan ^b   Schaible, Niccole ^c   Cheng, Fang ^d,e   Eriksson, John E ^d,e   Krishnan, Ramaswamy ^c   Lappalainen, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Actin; GEF H1; Intermediate filament; RhoA; Stress fiber; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR H1; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN; ARHGEF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN FIBROBLAST; STRESS FIBER; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; U2OS CELL LINE; WESTERN BLOTTING; FIBROBLAST; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ACTINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FIBROBLASTS; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; STRESS FIBERS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 85014329932     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.196881     Document Type: Article

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