Huntington's disease gene product, huntingtin, associates with microtubules in vitro

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 8-14

  Tukamoto, Tadashi ^a   Nukina, Nobuyuki ^a   Ide, Keiko ^a   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CAG repeat; Calmodulin; Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Huntingtin; Huntington's disease; Microtubule; Polyglutamine; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; RAT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; FEMALE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MICROTUBULES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030819255     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00205-2     Document Type: Article

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