Biologically Active Substance
vimentin
Subclass of:
Intermediate Filament Proteins
Definitions related to vimentin:
  • 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.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Principle structural glycoprotein of intermediate filaments in muscle, neuroglia, and other nonepithelial cell types.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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