Emerin deficiency at the nuclear membrane in patients with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 254-259

  Nagano, Atsushi ^a,b   Koga, Ritsuko ^a   Ogawa, Megumu ^a   Kurano, Yoshihiro ^c   Kawada, Junya ^d   Okada, Ryozo ^e   Hayashi, Yukiko K ^a   Tsukahara, Toshifumi ^a   Arahata, Kiichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJIREBIO INC   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME XQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, EMERY-DREIFUSS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; THYMOPOIETINS;

EID: 0029874852     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0396-254     Document Type: Article

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