Recruitment of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mutant lacking cytoplasmic tyrosine residues in its β subunit into agrin-induced aggregates

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 324-333

  Meyer, Guido ^a   Wallace, Bruce G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; LAMININ; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; RAPSYN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; MYOTUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031865212     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1998.0689     Document Type: Article

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