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Periplakin interactions with lens intermediate and beaded filaments.
PURPOSE The lens assembles two systems of intermediated filaments-vimentin intermediate filament (IF) and highly divergent, lens-specific beaded filament (BF)-sequentially as epithelial cells differentiate into fiber cells. The goal of this study was to identify linker proteins that integrate the different lens IF into the biology of the lens fiber cells. METHODS Antibodies to periplakin were...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Experimental Eye Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0014-4835
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.11.007