Cellular and Molecular Biology of Intermediate Filaments

I. The Subcellular Organization of Intermediate Filaments.- 1. Intermediate Filaments: An Overview.- 2. Intermediate (10-nm) Filaments in Muscle.- 3. Neurofilaments.- 4. The Proteins of Hair and Other Hard ?-Keratins.- 5. The Nuclear Lamina: An Intermediate Filament Protein Structure of the Cell Nucleus.- 6. Interaction of Intermediate Filaments with the Cell Surface.- II. The Structure of Intermediate Filaments.- 7. Primary and Secondary Structure of IF Protein Chains and Modes of Molecular Aggregation.- 8. The Three-Dimensional Structure of IF.- 9. Intermediate Filament Structure: Diversity, Polymorphism, and Analogy to Myosin.- III. Differential Expression of Intermediate Filament Genes.- 10. Hard Keratin IF and Associated Proteins.- 11. Differentiation-Specific Expression of Keratin Pairs.- 12. Keratins and Their Genes in Xenopus laevis: Structural and Developmental Aspects.- 13. Neural Intermediate Filament (Neurofilament) Genes.- 14. The Structure, Complexity, and Evolution of Intermediate Filament Genes.- IV. Accessory Proteins Involved in Regulating the Organization of Intermediate Filaments.- 15. Intermediate Filament-Associated Proteins.- 16. Filaggrins.- V. Pathological Conditions Relating to Intermediate Filaments.- 17. Expression, Organization, and Involvement of Intermediate Filaments in Disease Processes.- 18. The Cytoskeleton in Neurological Disease.