Type IV collagen: structure, gene organization, and role in human diseases. Molecular basis of Goodpasture and Alport syndromes and diffuse leiomyomatosis.

A Network Model for the Organization of Type IV Collagen Molecules in Basement Membranes

Rupert Timpl, Hanna Wiedemann, V van Delden et al. · European Journal of Biochemistry · 1981 · 903 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +17

Identification of Mutations in the COL4A5 Collagen Gene in Alport Syndrome

David F. Barker, Sirkka Liisa Hostikka, Jing Zhou et al. · Science · 1990 · 881 citations

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +17

Molecular heterogeneity of basal laminae: isoforms of laminin and collagen IV at the neuromuscular junction and elsewhere.

Joshua R. Sanes, Eva Engvall, Ralph J. Butkowski et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1990 · 584 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience +14

Identification of the Goodpasture antigen as the alpha 3(IV) chain of collagen IV.

Juan Saus, Jörgen Wieslander, Jan Langeveld et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1988 · 459 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Immunology, Molecular Biology +10

Identification of a distinct type IV collagen alpha chain with restricted kidney distribution and assignment of its gene to the locus of X chromosome-linked Alport syndrome.

Sirkka Liisa Hostikka, Roger L. Eddy, M.G. Byers et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1990 · 387 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +15