"Microfibrils" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Components of the extracellular matrix consisting primarily of fibrillin. They are essential for the integrity of elastic fibers.
| Descriptor ID |
D020894
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.295.310.560
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| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microfibrils" by people in Profiles.
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Ono RN, Sengle G, Charbonneau NL, Carlberg V, Bächinger HP, Sasaki T, Lee-Arteaga S, Zilberberg L, Rifkin DB, Ramirez F, Chu ML, Sakai LY. Latent transforming growth factor beta-binding proteins and fibulins compete for fibrillin-1 and exhibit exquisite specificities in binding sites. J Biol Chem. 2009 Jun 19; 284(25):16872-81.
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Rühland C, Schönherr E, Robenek H, Hansen U, Iozzo RV, Bruckner P, Seidler DG. The glycosaminoglycan chain of decorin plays an important role in collagen fibril formation at the early stages of fibrillogenesis. FEBS J. 2007 Aug; 274(16):4246-55.
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Steplewski A, Hintze V, Fertala A. Molecular basis of organization of collagen fibrils. J Struct Biol. 2007 Feb; 157(2):297-307.