Title : Identification of a nonapeptide motif in the vimentin head domain involved in intermediate filament assembly.

Pub. Date : 1992 Feb 5

PMID : 1542111






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1 Exchanges in the central di-arginine and in the two aromatic residues interfere with IF assembly of vimentin in vitro: on assembly under standard assembly conditions (160 mM-NaCl) most of the protein is included in dense aggregates, with a variable and minor proportion of IFs, whereas at lower ionic concentrations short and incomplete IF-like structures are formed. Sodium Chloride vimentin Homo sapiens