Molecular and functional characteristics of MAP-2a: Ability of MAP-2a versus MAP-2b to induce stable microtubules in COS cells

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 272-285

  Kalcheva, Nellie ^a   Rockwood, Julia M ^a   Kress, Yvonne ^a   Steiner, Ari ^a   Shafit Zagardo, Bridget ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylated tubulin; MAP 2 isoforms; MAP 2a; MAP 2b; Microtubule bundling; Microtubules; Nocodazole; Transient transfections

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NOCODAZOLE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CYTOSKELETON; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COS CELLS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NOCODAZOLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031747115     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)40:3<272::AID-CM6>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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