Plasticity of intermediate filament subunits.

Intermediate filaments (IFs) assembled in vitro from recombinantly expressed proteins have a diameter of 8-12 nm and can reach several micrometers in length. IFs assemble from a soluble pool of subunits, tetramers in the case of vimentin. Upon salt addition, the subunits form first unit length filam...

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Main Authors: Robert Kirmse, Zhao Qin, Carl M Weinert, Andreas Hoenger, Markus J Buehler, Laurent Kreplak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2930322?pdf=render