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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1994

Truncated desmin in PtK2 cells induces desmin-vimentin-cytokeratin coprecipitation, involution of intermediate filament networks, and nuclear fragmentation: a model for many degenerative diseases.

K R Yu, T Hijikata, Z X Lin, H L Sweeney, S W Englander, H Holtzer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Intermediate filament diseases: desminopathy.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2008
    Article
  5. Article
  6. A dysfunctional desmin mutation in a patient with severe generalized myopathy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1998
    Article
  7. Intermediate filaments as dynamic structures.Cancer metastasis reviews · 1996
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

K R YuDepartment of Cell Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104-6059.
T Hijikata
Z X Lin
H L Sweeney
S W Englander
H Holtzer
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLEP01HL015835 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GOLDMAN, YALE E · 1985 to 2002
$5.5M
PROTEIN BONDING, STABILITY, AND FUNCTIONR01DK011295 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ENGLANDER, S. WALTER · 1986 to 1998
–
NHLBI NIH HHS 5-P01-HL15835NIDDK NIH HHS DK 11295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The earliest expression of truncated desmin in transfected PtK2 cells results in the formation of dispersed microprecipitates containing not only the truncated desmin, but also endogenous vimentin and cytokeratin proteins. Desmin microprecipitates without vimentin or vimentin microprecipitates without desmin are not observed. The microprecipitates involving cytokeratin invariably are also positive for desmin and vimentin. Over time, the precipitates enlarge into 1- to 2-microns spheroids and then fuse into amorphous chimeric juxtanuclear masses that can occupy > 30% of the cell volume. Concurrently, first the vimentin and then the cytokeratin networks are resorbed. The chimeric precipitates are not recognized or marked for degradation by the lysosomal system. Ultimately the cell nucleus fragments and the cell dies. Similar protein complexes appear in many human and animal pathologies, suggesting that a similar protein-precipitation sequence initiated by the introduction of a mutationally or environmentally altered protein molecule is at work.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAnimalsCell NucleusCells, CulturedChemical PrecipitationDesminIntermediate FilamentsKeratinsMacropodidaeVimentinDesminKeratinsVimentin

Identifiers

PMID7511811
PMCPMC43396
OpenAlexW2017125050

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