PTL-1, a microtubule-associated protein with tau-like repeats from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2661-2672

  Goedert, M ^a   Baur, C P ^a   Ahringer, J ^b   Jakes, R ^a   Hasegawa, M ^a   Spillantini, M G ^c   Smith, M J ^a   Hill, F ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MAP2; MAP4; Microtubule associated protein; Protein with tau like repeats; Tau

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPODOPTERA; TAU PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029909180     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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