Intermediate filaments: From cell architecture to nanomechanics

Harald Herrmann, Harald Bär, Laurent Kreplak, Sergei V. Strelkov, Ueli Aebi

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Intermediate filaments (IFs) constitute a major structural element of animal cells. They build two distinct systems, one in the nucleus and one in the cytoplasm. In both cases, their major function is assumed to be that of a mechanical stress absorber and an integrating device for the entire cytoskeleton. In line with this, recent disease mutations in human IF proteins indicate that the nanomechanical properties of cell-type-specific IFs are central to the pathogenesis of diseases as diverse as muscular dystrophy and premature ageing. However, the analysis of these various diseases suggests that IFs also have an important role in cell-type-specific physiological functions.

Idioma originalEnglish
Páginas (desde-hasta)562-573
Número de páginas12
PublicaciónNature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Volumen8
N.º7
DOI
EstadoPublished - jul. 2007
Publicado de forma externa

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Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation (H.H. and H.B.), the Swiss Society for Research on Muscular Diseases (U.A. and S.V.S.), the National Centre of Competence in Research program on ‘Nanoscale Science’, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the M.E. Müller Foundation of Switzerland and the Canton Basel-Stadt (all to U.A.), Group Biomedical Sciences and the Research Council of the Catholic University of Leuven (S.V.S.) and the European Union FP6 Life Science, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health area (H.H. and U.A.).

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  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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