Direct demonstration of MuSK involvement in acetylcholine receptor clustering through identification of agonist ScFv

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 768-771

  Xie, Ming Hong ^a   Yuan, Jean ^a   Adams, Camellia ^a   Gurney, Austin ^a  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonist; MuSK; Receptor; ScFv; Tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHIMERA; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE FIBERS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECEPTOR AGGREGATION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; TYROSINE;

EID: 0030803049     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0897-768     Document Type: Article

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