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Intermediate Filaments
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Filament, Intermediate
, Filaments, Intermediate
, Intermediate filament
A cytoskeletal structure that forms a distinct elongated structure, characteristically 10 nm in diameter, that occurs in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic…
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Cytokeratin
Cytokeratin filaments
Cytoskeleton
Keratin
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Cytoplasmic intermediate filament
Neurofilaments
Nuclear lamin
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Cytoskeletal Filaments
Intermediate filament cytoskeleton
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Intermediate filaments: from cell architecture to nanomechanics
H. Herrmann
,
H. Bär
,
L. Kreplak
,
S. Strelkov
,
U. Aebi
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology
2007
Corpus ID: 27115011
Intermediate filaments (IFs) constitute a major structural element of animal cells. They build two distinct systems, one in the…
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Review
2003
Review
2003
Intermediate filaments: molecular structure, assembly mechanism, and integration into functionally distinct intracellular Scaffolds.
H. Herrmann
,
U. Aebi
Annual Review of Biochemistry
2003
Corpus ID: 30563492
The superfamily of intermediate filament (IF) proteins contains at least 65 distinct proteins in man, which all assemble into…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
A structural scaffolding of intermediate filaments in health and disease.
E. Fuchs
,
D. Cleveland
Science
1998
Corpus ID: 40709316
The cytoplasm of animal cells is structured by a scaffolding composed of actin microfilaments, microtubules, and intermediate…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Demonstration of mechanical connections between integrins, cytoskeletal filaments, and nucleoplasm that stabilize nuclear structure.
A. Maniotis
,
C. S. Chen
,
D. Ingber
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1997
Corpus ID: 6100328
We report here that living cells and nuclei are hard-wired such that a mechanical tug on cell surface receptors can immediately…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Caspase Cleavage of Keratin 18 and Reorganization of Intermediate Filaments during Epithelial Cell Apoptosis
C. Caulin
,
G. Salvesen
,
R. Oshima
Journal of Cell Biology
1997
Corpus ID: 18726460
Keratins 8 (K8) and 18 (K18) are major components of intermediate filaments (IFs) of simple epithelial cells and tumors derived…
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
CNS stem cells express a new class of intermediate filament protein
U. Lendahl
,
L. Zimmerman
,
R. McKay
Cell
1990
Corpus ID: 11437248
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Homologies in both primary and secondary structure between nuclear envelope and intermediate filament proteins
F. McKeon
,
M. Kirschner
,
D. Caput
Nature
1986
Corpus ID: 4233120
The A, B and C lamins are the major proteins of the nuclear envelope. The complete nucleotide sequence of the coding region of…
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
cDNA sequencing of nuclear lamins A and C reveals primary and secondary structural homology to intermediate filament proteins.
D. Fisher
,
N. Chaudhary
,
G. Blobel
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1986
Corpus ID: 44553211
The amino acid sequences deduced from cDNA clones of human lamin A and lamin C show identity between these two lamins except for…
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Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Intermediate filaments as mechanical integrators of cellular space
E. Lazarides
Nature
1980
Corpus ID: 4233530
Five chemically distinct classes of intermediate filaments can be identified within higher eukaryotic cells. Each class is…
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Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Different intermediate-sized filaments distinguished by immunofluorescence microscopy.
W. Franke
,
E. Schmid
,
M. Osborn
,
K. Weber
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1978
Corpus ID: 25591403
The major protein of intermediate-sized filaments in mouse 3T3 cells, for which the name vimentin is proposed, has a molecular…
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