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History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects
Intermediate filaments include the nuclear lamins, which are universal in metazoans, and the cytoplasmic intermediate filaments, which are much more varied and form cell type-specific networks in animal cells. Until now, it has been thought that insects harbor lamins only. This view is fundamentally...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21356127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-16 |
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author | Herrmann, Harald Strelkov, Sergei V |
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description | Intermediate filaments include the nuclear lamins, which are universal in metazoans, and the cytoplasmic intermediate filaments, which are much more varied and form cell type-specific networks in animal cells. Until now, it has been thought that insects harbor lamins only. This view is fundamentally challenged by the discovery, reported in BMC Biology, of an intermediate filament-like cytoplasmic protein, isomin, in the hexapod Isotomurus maculatus. Here we briefly review the history of research on intermediate filaments, and discuss the implications of this latest finding in the context of what is known of their structure and functions. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/17 |
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spelling | pubmed-30469232011-03-02 History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects Herrmann, Harald Strelkov, Sergei V BMC Biol Commentary Intermediate filaments include the nuclear lamins, which are universal in metazoans, and the cytoplasmic intermediate filaments, which are much more varied and form cell type-specific networks in animal cells. Until now, it has been thought that insects harbor lamins only. This view is fundamentally challenged by the discovery, reported in BMC Biology, of an intermediate filament-like cytoplasmic protein, isomin, in the hexapod Isotomurus maculatus. Here we briefly review the history of research on intermediate filaments, and discuss the implications of this latest finding in the context of what is known of their structure and functions. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/17 BioMed Central 2011-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3046923/ /pubmed/21356127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-16 Text en Copyright ©2011 Herrmann; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Herrmann, Harald Strelkov, Sergei V History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects |
title | History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects |
title_full | History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects |
title_fullStr | History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects |
title_full_unstemmed | History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects |
title_short | History and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: Now in insects |
title_sort | history and phylogeny of intermediate filaments: now in insects |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21356127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-16 |
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