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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Biochem Sci. 2021 Jun 18;46(10):832–847. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2021.05.007

Figure I. Lamins assemble into filaments.

Figure I.

Lamins, initially synthesized as monomers (1), assemble into intermediate filaments by first dimerizing (2) and then forming head-to-tail polymers (3). These polymers assemble in an anti-parallel manner into filaments (4).