Myosin VIIa, the product of the Usher 1B syndrome gene, is concentrated in the connecting cilia of photoreceptor cells

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 240-252

  Liu, Xinran ^a   Vansant, Gordon ^a   Udovichenko, Igor P ^a   Wolfrum, Uwe ^b   Williams, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cilium; Photoreceptor cell; Shaker 1 mice; Unconventional myosin; Usher syndrome

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ARTICLE; MICROTUBULE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOPODIUM; USHER SYNDROME;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CILIA; DYNEIN ATPASE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MYOSINS; PHOTORECEPTORS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SYNDROME;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0030811605     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)37:3<240::AID-CM6>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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