Specificity of neurotrophin-3 determined by loss-of-function mutagenesis

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 496-503

  Kullander, Klas ^a,b   Kylberg, Annika ^a   Ebendal, Ted ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hairpin loops; Nerve growth factor; Neurotrophic activity; Protein structure; Trk; Tyrosine kinase receptor

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030696299     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19971101)50:3<496::AID-JNR16>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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