Midwood Kim S, Schwarzbauer Jean E
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1014, USA.
Curr Biol. 2002 Apr 16;12(8):R279-81. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00800-x.
Extracellular elastic fibers confer resilience and flexibility to tissues. Recent studies have identified a protein, fibulin-5, that connects these fibers to cells and regulates their assembly and organization.
细胞外弹性纤维赋予组织弹性和柔韧性。最近的研究发现了一种蛋白质,即纤维连接蛋白-5,它将这些纤维与细胞相连,并调节其组装和组织。