Intermediate filament cytoskeleton / edited by M. Bishr Omary, Pierre A. Coulombe.

Other author Omary, M. Bishr.
Other author Coulombe, Pierre A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press,
Descriptionxxix, 886 p., [19] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)
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Subjects
Intermediate Filament Proteins--physiology.

SeriesMethods in cell biology, 0091-679x ; v. 78
Methods in cell biology v. 78. ^A535765
Contents Isolation, characterization, and in vitro assembly of intermediate filaments -- Intermediate filament protein structure determination -- Intracellular microrheology as a tool for the measurement of the local mechanical properties of live cells -- Developing mouse models to study intermediate filaments in apoptosis -- Uncovering the roles of intermediate filaments in apoptosis -- Molecular genetics methods for human intermediate filament diseases -- Intermediate filaments and multiparameter flow cytometry for the study of solid tumors -- Intermediate filament protein inclusions -- Stress models for the study of intermediate filament function -- Regulation of intermediate filament gene expression -- Fluorescence-based methods for studying intermediate filaments -- Imaging of keratin dynamics during the cell cycle and in response to phosphatase inhibition -- Approaches to study phosphorylation filament proteins using site-specific and phosphorylation state-specific antibodies -- Approaches to study posttranslational regulation of intermediate filament proteins -- Hair keratins and hair follicle-specific epithelial keratins -- Skin : an ideal model system to study keratin genes and proteins -- Studying simple epithelial keratins in cells and tissues -- Muscle intermediate filament proteins -- [35S] methionine metabolic labeling to study axonal transport of neuronal intermediate filament proteins in vivo -- Lamins -- The intermediate filament systems in the eye lens -- Fish keratins -- Performing functional studies of xenopus laevis intermediate filament proteins through injection og macromolecules into early embryos -- Intermediate filaments in caenorhabditis elegans -- Plectin -- In vitro methods for investigating desmoplakin-intermediate filament interactions and their role in adhesive strength -- Studying cytolinker -- Keratin bundling proteins -- Lamin-associated proteins.
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