Intermediate filaments are a type of cytoskeletal filaments characterised by their intermediate diameter compared to actin filaments and microtubules. Different types of intermediate filaments are ...

Just as the skeleton and muscles move the human body and hold its shape, all the cells of the body are stabilised and moved by a cellular skeleton. Unlike our skeleton, this cellular skeleton is a ...

Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The classification of MAP 2 as a microtubule-associated protein is based on its affinity for microtubules in vitro and its filamentous ...

Antisera were raised to the 210,000-dalton and the 49,000-dalton proteins of a fraction enriched in intermediate (10 nm) filaments from human brain. Proteins of the filament preparation were separated ...

Neurofilament light (NfL) is a 68 kDa cytoskeletal intermediate filament protein highly expressed in neuronal axons. It is associated with the 125 kDa Neurofilament medium (NfM) and the 200 kDa ...

Intermediate filaments have a central role in maintaining the structural integrity of cells and tissues. The different proteins that constitute intermediate filaments show cell type specific ...

Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) is a class-III intermediate filament that is mostly produced in astrocytic glial cells in the central nervous system. Astrocytes have important functions in ...

How did life leap from simple microbial cells to the complex, structured cells that make up animals, plants, and fungi? A new study in The EMBO Journal by researchers at the Indian Institute of ...

Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in collaboration with research groups in Finland, Canada and Slovenia, have discovered a novel and unexpected function of ...