Variants of the receptor/channel clustering molecule gephyrin in brain: Distinct distribution patterns, developmental profiles, and proteolytic cleavage by calpain

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 381-388

  Kawasaki, Brian T ^a   Hoffman, Keith B ^a   Yamamoto, Robert S ^a   Bahr, Ben A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cortex Pharmaceuticals ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Affinity purified antibodies; Gephyrin isoforms; Proteolytic modulation; Stable breakdown products

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPASTATIN; CX 295; GEPHYRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CALPAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0030838769     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19970801)49:3<381::AID-JNR13>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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