Triton-soluble phosphovariants of the heavy neurofilament subunit in developing and mature mouse central nervous system

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 515-523

  Shea, Thomas B ^a,b,f   Dahl, Doris C ^c   Nixon, Ralph A ^b,d   Fischer, Itzhak ^e  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal development; CNS development; Cytoskeleton; Intermediate filaments; Neurofilaments; Optic pathway; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EPITOPE; METHIONINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SULFUR 35; TRITON X 100;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROFILAMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELL FRACTIONATION; CYTOSKELETON; EPITOPES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; OCTOXYNOL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0030973429     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19970615)48:6<515::AID-JNR4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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