Fragile X mental retardation protein: Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling and association with somatodendritic ribosomes

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1539-1547

  Feng, Yue ^a   Gutekunst, Claire Anne ^a   Eberhart, Derek E ^a   Yi, Hong ^a   Warren, Stephen T ^a   Hersch, Steven M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dendritic protein synthesis; FMRP; fragile X mental retardation protein; fragile X syndrome; mental retardation; ribosomes; RNA binding proteins; trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0031046778     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-05-01539.1997     Document Type: Article

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