Assembly of vimentin in vitro and its implications concerning the structure of intermediate filaments

Electron microscope studies on the structure of natural and synthetic protein filaments from striated muscle

1963 • 1,452 citations

The amino acid sequence of chicken muscle desmin provides a common structural model for intermediate filament proteins.

1982 • 432 citations

Neurofilament architecture combines structural principles of intermediate filaments with carboxy-terminal extensions increasing in size between triplet proteins.

1983 • 361 citations

Complete amino acid sequence of a mouse epidermal keratin subunit and implications for the structure of intermediate filaments

1983 • 336 citations

Proteinchemical characterization of three structurally distinct domains along the protofilament unit of desmin 10 nm filaments

1982 • 242 citations

Procedure for freeze-drying molecules adsorbed to mica flakes

1983 • 222 citations

The fibrillar substructure of keratin filaments unraveled.

1983 • 219 citations

Structure of intermediate filaments

1983 • 195 citations

Heterotypic tetramer (A2D2) complexes of non-epidermal keratins isolated from cytoskeletons of rat hepatocytes and hepatoma cells

1984 • 194 citations

Structure of α-keratin: Structural implication of the amino acid sequences of the type I and type II chain segments

1977 • 169 citations

Involvement of the n-terminal polypeptide of vimentin in the formation of intermediate filaments

1983 • 153 citations

Reconstitution of intermediate-sized filaments from denatured monomeric vimentin

1981 • 146 citations

Myosin filamentogenesis: Effects of pH and ionic concentration

1966 • 146 citations

Desmin from avian smooth muscle. Purification and partial characterization.

1980 • 132 citations

Structure of the α-keratin microfibril

1976 • 131 citations

A periodic ultrastructure in intermediate filaments

1982 • 126 citations

Structure of the three-chain unit of the bovine epidermal keratin filament

1978 • 124 citations

Structure and polymerization of Acanthamoeba myosin-II filaments.

1982 • 117 citations

Redistribution of mannose-6-phosphate receptors induced by tunicamycin and chloroquine.

1984 • 114 citations

Amino acid sequence data on glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFA); implications for the subdivision of intermediate filaments into epithelial and non-epithelial members.

1983 • 111 citations

Intermediate (skeletin) filaments in heart Purkinje fibers. A correlative morphological and biochemical identification with evidence of a cytoskeletal function.

1979 • 105 citations

Visualization of a 21-nm axial periodicity in shadowed keratin filaments and neurofilaments.

1982 • 100 citations

Vimentin filaments are assembled from a soluble precursor in avian erythroid cells.

1983 • 96 citations

The distribution of mass in heteropolymer intermediate filaments assembled in vitro. Stem analysis of vimentin/desmin and bovine epidermal keratin.

1983 • 89 citations

Epidermal keratin filaments assembled in vitro have masses-per-unit-length that scale according to average subunit mass: structural basis for homologous packing of subunits in intermediate filaments.

1983 • 84 citations

Myosin minifilaments

1980 • 83 citations

Coiled coil formation and sequence regularities in the helical regions of α-keratin

1978 • 79 citations

Periodic charge distribution in the intermediate filament proteins desmin and vimentin

1982 • 76 citations

Suberimidate crosslinking shows that a rod‐shaped, low cystine, high helix protein prepared by limited proteolysis of reduced wool has four protein chains

1978 • 71 citations

Preparation of single molecules and supramolecular complexes for high-resolution metal shadowing

1983 • 68 citations

The structure of the α-keratin microfibril

1983 • 59 citations

Helical substructure of neurofilaments isolated from Myxicola and squid giant axons.

1979 • 55 citations

The structural relation between intermediate filament proteins in living cells and the alpha-keratins of sheep wool.

1982 • 49 citations

Disassembly of synthetic 10-nm desmin filaments from smooth muscle into protofilaments.

1981 • 39 citations

Structural Studies on the Microfibrillar Proteins of Wool: Characterization of the a-Helix-Rich Particle Produced by Chymotryptic Digestion

1981 • 38 citations

Canavanine inhibits vimentin assembly but not its synthesis in chicken embryo erythroid cells.

1983 • 19 citations

Three-chain merokeratin from wool may be a fragment of the microfibril component macromolecule

1977 • 11 citations