Article
Fibrillin-containing microfibrils: structure and function in health and disease.
The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology - 1 Aug 1995
Kielty C M, Shuttleworth C A
Abstract excerpt
Fibrillin-containing microfibrils are a unique class of connective tissue macromolecules whose critical contribution to the establishment and maintenance of diverse extracellular matrices was underlined by the recent linkage of their principal structural component fibrillin to Marfan syndrome, a...
Topics
- Connective Tissue
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins
- Fibrillins
- Genotype
- Humans
- Marfan Syndrome
- Microfilament Proteins
- Phenotype
- Reference Values
- Structure-Activity Relationship
