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Desmin filaments studied by quasi-elastic light scattering.
Article in Biophysical journal, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The filament forming reactions of vimentin tetramers studied in a serial-inlet microflow device by small angle x-ray scattering.Biomicrofluidics · 2016Article
- Modeling nuclear blebs in a nucleoskeleton of independent filament networks.Cellular and molecular bioengineering · 2012Article
- Modeling the self-organization property of keratin intermediate filaments.Biophysical journal · 2010Article
- The self-assembly, elasticity, and dynamics of cardiac thin filaments.Biophysical journal · 2008Article
- Glass transition and rheological redundancy in F-actin solutions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2007Article
- Mechanical and structural properties of in vitro neurofilament hydrogels.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2007Article
- Softness, strength and self-repair in intermediate filament networks.Experimental cell research · 2007Review
- Persistence length of titin from rabbit skeletal muscles measured with scattering and microrheology techniques.Biophysical journal · 2005Article
- The mechanical properties of hydrated intermediate filaments: insights from hagfish slime threads.Biophysical journal · 2003Article
- Dynamic structure factor of a stiff polymer in a glassy solution.The European physical journal. E, Soft matterArticle
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Abstract
We studied polymers of desmin, a muscle-specific type III intermediate filament protein, using quasi-elastic light scattering. Desmin was purified from chicken gizzard. Polymerization was induced either by 2 mM MgCl(2) or 150 mM NaCl. The polymer solutions were in the semidilute regime. We concluded that the persistence length of the filaments is between 0.1 and 1 microm. In all cases, we found a hydrodynamic diameter of desmin filaments of 16-18 nm. The filament dynamics exhibits a characteristic frequency in the sense that correlation functions measured on one sample but at different scattering vectors collapse onto a single master curve when time is normalized by the experimentally determined initial decay rate.
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