Alternative splicing of agrin alters its binding to heparin, dystroglycan, and the putative agrin receptor

Neuron

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 755-767

  Gesemann, Matthias ^a   Cavalli, Valeria ^a   Denzer, Alain J ^a   Brancaccio, Andrea ^a   Schumacher, Beat ^a   Ruegg, Markus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; HEPARIN; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHICKEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MOUSE; MYOTUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029958839     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80096-3     Document Type: Article

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