“…Following its discovery as a 57kDa Triton-insoluble protein (Portier et al, 1982; Tatemoto et al, 1982; Portier et al, 1983b; Portier et al, 1983a), peripherin was established as a type III IF protein based on its structural properties and ability to assemble into filaments by itself or together with either neurofilament proteins or vimentin (Portier et al, 1983a; Parysek and Goldman, 1987; Leonard et al, 1988; Thompson and Ziff, 1989; Cui et al, 1995; Ho et al, 1995; Athlan and Mushynski, 1997). Although its neuronal specificity and abundance in axons led early investigators to suspect that peripherin, like α-internexin, may be a subunit of neurofilaments (Portier et al, 1983a), little evidence has been brought to bear on this possibility (Barry et al, 2007; Mclean and Robertson, 2011). Moreover, other studies have supported the view that peripherin forms a separate filament system (Ferri et al, 1990; Troy et al, 1990; Wong and Oblinger, 1990; Beaulieu et al, 1999) although the evidence is indirect.…”