A rod end deletion in the intermediate filament protein nestin alters its subcellular localization in neuroepithelial cells of transgenic mice

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Neuroepithelial and radial glial cells span between the ventricular and the pial surfaces of the neural tube and express two intermediate filaments (IFs), nestin and vimentin, which form a filamentous network throughout the length of the cells. In this report we study the polymerization characteristics of nestin and examine how mutations affect the assembly and localization of the nestin protein in cultured cells...

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