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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Biopolymers > Intermediate Filament Proteins > Vimentin
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Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Biopolymers > Intermediate Filament Proteins > Vimentin
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Cytoskeletal Proteins > Intermediate Filament Proteins > Vimentin

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Vimentin  

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Note

  • an intermediate filament protein; /biosyn /physiol permitted

Scope note

  • An intermediate filament protein found in most differentiating cells, in cells grown in tissue culture, and in certain fully differentiated cells. Its insolubility suggests that it serves a structural function in the cytoplasm. MW 52,000.

History note

  • 85

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014746

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