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A role for the 1A and L1 rod domain segments in head domain organization and function of intermediate filaments: structural analysis of trichocyte keratin.
Journal of structural biology - 1 Jan 2000
Parry David A D, Marekov Lyuben N, Steinert Peter M, Smith Thomasin A
Abstract excerpt
A dynamic model is proposed to explain how the 1A and linker L1 segments of the rod domain in intermediate filament (IF) proteins affect the head domain organization and vice versa. We have shown in oxidized trichocyte IF that the head domain sequences fold back over and interact with the rod domain. This phenomenon may occur widely in reduced IF as well. Its function may be to stabilize the 1A segments into a...
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