Direct Evidence Supporting the Existence of a Helical Dislocation in Protofilament Packing in the Intermediate Filaments of Oxidized Trichocyte Keratin

    September 2018 in “ Journal of Structural Biology ”
    Russell Fraser, David Parry
    Studysummary Oxidized trichocyte keratin has a helical dislocation in its structure.
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