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A microfibril is a very fine fibril, or fiber-like strand, consisting of glycoproteins and cellulose.It is usually, but not always, used as a general term in describing the structure of protein fiber, e.g. hair and sperm tail.
Microfibrillar-associated protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MFAP2 gene. [5] [6]Microfibrillar-associated protein 2 is a major antigen of elastin-associated microfibrils and a candidate for involvement in the etiology of inherited connective tissue diseases.
Cellulose chains are observed to align in overlapping parallel arrays, with the similar polarity forming a cellulose microfibril. In plants, these cellulose microfibrils arrange themselves into layers, formally known as lamellae, and are stabilized in the cell wall by surface, long cross-linking glycan molecules. Glycan molecules increase the ...
11117 100952 Ensembl ENSG00000138080 ENSMUSG00000029163 UniProt Q9Y6C2 Q99K41 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_007046 NM_133918 RefSeq (protein) NP_008977 NP_598679 Location (UCSC) Chr 2: 27.08 – 27.09 Mb Chr 5: 31.07 – 31.08 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse For other uses, see Emilin. Elastin microfibril interfacer 1 (EMILIN-1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ...
4236 67532 Ensembl ENSG00000140259 ENSMUSG00000068479 UniProt P55081 C0HKD8 C0HKD9 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_005926 NM_026220 RefSeq (protein) NP_005917 NP_001075444 NP_080496 Location (UCSC) Chr 15: 43.8 – 43.82 Mb Chr 2: 121.32 – 121.34 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Microfibrillar-associated protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MFAP1 gene. References ...
It lacks a hydrophobic carboxyl terminus and proline-, glutamine-, and tyrosine-rich regions, which are characteristics of a related 31-kDa microfibril-associated glycoprotein (MFAP2). The close similarity between these two proteins is confined to a central region of 60 aa where precise alignment of 7 cysteine residues occurs.
Fibrillin-1 is a major component of the microfibrils that form a sheath surrounding the amorphous elastin.It is believed that the microfibrils are composed of end-to-end polymers of fibrillin.
Cellulose microfibrils are made on the surface of cell membranes to reinforce cells walls, which has been researched extensively by plant biochemists and cell biologist because 1) they regulate cellular morphogenesis and 2) they serve alongside many other constituents (i.e. lignin, hemicellulose, pectin) in the cell wall as a strong structural support and cell shape. [15]