ε subunit-containing acetylcholine receptors in myotubes belong to the slowly degrading population

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 8937-8944

  Sala, Carlo ^a   O'Malley, James ^b   Xu, Rufeng ^b   Fumagalli, Guido ^c,d   Salpeter, Miriam M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d POLICLINICO BORGO ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AChR degradation; AChR subunit; cAMP; Immunoprecipitation; Monoclonal antibodies; Myotubes; Neuromuscular junction; bungarotoxin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; BUCLADESINE; BUNGAROTOXIN; FETOPROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INNERVATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MYOTUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; RAT; TISSUE CULTURE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE DENERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BUCLADESINE; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; DOWN-REGULATION; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030613670     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-23-08937.1997     Document Type: Article

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